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Emboard is a simple message board and simple, designed for inclusion in any of Orcon's
Roxen-based Easyhost and
ProHost webservers.
It's simple, modular architecture make is so easy to setup and include on your website.
Getting started:
The simplest way to call emboard is as follows.
A working example can be seen here.
<use package="emboard"/> <emboard name="demo" password="demo"/>
This will activate a basic messageboard-like version of emboard on your website - connecting
you to the 'demo' guestbook. (The demo guestbook is setup for testing and demonstration purposes,
and can be managed by anyone -- so it is not recommended to leave the setting like this for any
'real-life' uses).
Guestbook mode:
There's also a built-in template for a guestbook-like mode.
A working example can be seen here.
<use package="emboard"/> <emboard name="demo" password="demo" mode="guestbookonly"/>
This will activate a basic guestbook-like version of emboard on your website - connecting
you to the 'demo' guestbook.
Threaded messages:
emboard supports basic threading, allowing you to reply to messages and view related-messages
in a tree-like fashion. A working example can be seen here.
<use package="emboard"/> <emboard name="demo" password="demo" threads="yes"/>
This will activate a basic guestbook-like version of emboard on your website - connecting
you to the 'demo' guestbook.
Advanced:
emboard also supports session tracking to let a user know what they have and have not read,
email-supression and more. An example activating more of emboard's features can be seen
here.
<use package="emboard"/> <emboard name="demo" password="demo" threads="yes" showemail="yes" sessionhistory="yes"/>
Emboard's options:
- name="xxx": the name of the emboard you have created using our emboard creation screen.
- password="xxx": the password needed to access the emboard.
- admin="yes": enable the delete function for a message. It also displays the IP address
of the person posting the message.
- mode="guestbookonly": A simple flat-file format of display
- hideform="yes": Hide the 'add/reply-to' post screen.
- hidelistings="yes": Hide the message listings (eg. only show the 'add/reply-to' post screen.)
- threads="yes": Activates threading and allows replies to other peoples' posts.
- showemail="yes": Show people's email addresses in the forum. If not suppled, only
what they entered in the 'name' field is displayed.
- sessionhistory="yes": turn's on emboard's session tracking feature (requires
cookies). This makes unread entries be bold in the listing view. (Note that the appearance
may be altered if a custom layout is being used.
Changelog
17 April 2001:
- Fixed bug which would cause emboard to break if certain characters were in the board name.
10 April 2001:
- Initial release of emboard.
- Addition of new options: hideform and hidelistings; to allow simple customisation of the form.