官方网站：http://beehiveforum.sourceforge.net
下载地址：http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=50772
演示地址：http://www.beehiveforum.net/forum/
程序简介：
About Beehive Forum
Beehive is an open-source project for creating a high-configurable frame-based discussion forum.
To find out why you should use it, read below. Alternatively, skip down to the huge feature list.
Why Beehive?
The core features...
First
and foremost, there is one outstandingly brilliant reason to use
Beehive: it's absolutely free. We don't ask for a pound, dollar, euro,
yen or rouble of your cash in return for this, our labour of love
(that's not to say we'll tell you to put your glittering, bejewelled
cheque-book away as gold coins spill out of your over-burdened pockets,
however...). Futhermore, BeehiveForum is released under the terms of
the GNU General Public License; that means you can read the code,
change it however you want, or even burn it to CDs and throw them out
of crop dusters onto heavily populated areas (as long as nobody gets
hurt). And if you do change anything, then get in touch with us, and it
might well become part of an official release.
So,
with your precious money safely stuffed under the floorboards, you know
you're not wasting that, but will you be wasting your time? We think
not. In fact, with our frame-based layout, we think we might even save
you some. If you're not familiar with a layout like that, the idea is
that rather than having discussions accessible from an 'index page' of
threads, within and 'index page' of folders, discussions are grouped by
folder, and displayed in a narrow navigation frame of the left, leaving
the rest of the browser to show the posts of the thread you're
currently reading. If you are familiar with this kind of layout, you're
no doubt letting out a relieved sigh; no more flicking between pages!
Hand
in hand with that particular natty feature (one of many, we hasten to
add) goes a second: replying to a particular post, not just the thread
in general. No more quoting entire posts just so people know what
you're talking about - it's all made clear in the header of your own
post. On top of this, as posts are actually addressed to other users,
Beehive lets you highlight any posts directed to you quickly and easily
- or even e-mail you to tell you.
Finally,
with Beehive you won't be spending a good portion of your life trawling
through posts you've already seen to find one you missed; Beehive only
marks a post (that's a post, not a thread) as read if it's actually
been displayed to you. Even if you're interupted when reading a
screenful of messages, the post you're reading and all that follow can
be marked as unread at the click of a button. Even if you log into a
different computer, Beehive still knows exactly what you've read.
Iron fist or velvet glove...
Whether
you, as a moderator, prefer to blend in to the crowd like a caring and
benevolent ruler, or crush all before you in a tyranical rage (after
all, forumites are just potential trolls, right?), Beehive's powerful
administrative features have got you covered.
With a troublesome
member, for example, several options are open to you. First up, you
could just leave the troll alone, and let your other users put the
troublemaker on ignore if they want; or you could 'worm' the user in
question - the user thinks they're posting as normal, but to everyone
else their posts appear to be deleted; if that's not enough, you could
stop the member from posting in whichever folders you chose; finally,
you could just ban the troublemaker, or even ban their IP to stop them
coming back. If the user's posts have been destructive in some way, and
need deleting, you can do that on a per-post basis, a per-thread basis
or nuke them all in one fell swoop.
There's
plenty of options for the everyday running of the forum, too - edit,
create and delete folders and user groups and quickly set the
permissions for each. Want a folder that only mods can see? No problem.
Want a folder that anyone can see but only mods can post to? Fine. Want
a folder where anyone can post, but nobody can reply to? Easy.
Beehive's new permission system is, quite frankly, one of the most
powerful available.
We've thougth of people with a penchant for
infringing those pesky freedom of speech rights, too, with Beehive's
Admin word filter. Unlike the personal word filter, you can force this
upon all your minions whether they like it or not, and with the choice
of PREG functionality (alongside more traditional, simpler filtering
methods) extremely powerful rules can be created.
And, of course, there's all the familiar options such as editting or deleting posts, moving threads
Technically cool...
Whether
you live and die for technobabble or think that geeks should be neither
seen nor heard, you'll appreciate this stuff regardless.
Aside
from Beehive itself being free, it's coded in PHP. Which is free. And
it uses MySQL. Which, uh, is free. Obviously free is nice, but doesn't
count for much if your webspace ends up going 10GB over its bandwidth
limit, which is why Beehive has been written with overhead costs in
mind; Beehive is very efficient, so running a forum shouldn't cost too
much in terms of processing power, disk space or bandwidth - and with
gzip compression enabled, your forum will consume even less bandwidth.
This is good news for users, too; Beehive is swift and nimble even on
older systems and/or over 56K dial-up connections.
Those wanting
to set up multiple Beehive forums but only have one MySQL database are
catered for, too; forums are easily added, deleted and otherwise
managed through the Admin controls, and any forums hosted in the same
database enjoy 'My Forums' interconnectivity.
Customisability...
Almost
every aspect of Beehive is customisable to some degree, from the
forum's name right down to how many posts per page each user wants to
see, and with everything inbetween, including guest accounts, user
profile catagories, your start page, your top frame, user's signatures,
language packs, forum styles and emoticon sets - and if you don't like
those that come as standard, it's easy to create add your own!
Plus a load of other spangley bits...
And
if all of that wasn't enough there's an
Olympic-sized-swimming-pool-full of extra features for you to play with
such as: HTML posting - no restrictive forum-code, but potentially
harmful HTML is removed automatically by Beehive; HTML toolbar to help
even novices format their posts quickly and easily - even in non-IE
browsers; private messaging - send a message to a specific user that
only they can read; p_w_uploads - upload files such as p_w_picpaths to
your allocated space as p_w_uploads to posts or private messages; a
wide array of poll options; sticky threads; locked threads; interest
levels; powerful search tool; relationship levels between members;
thread list filtering and so much more.
You tell us...
So, after
all that, why use Beehive? Why on Earth not? We like it so much, we use
it ourselves. However, if you think you've got a good reason not to use
it, then you could always tell us, and you never know, we might be able
to do something about it...
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