Web Wiz Forums version 8 Beta 1 is released today. After 2 years of development, many late nights, and over 80,000 lines of new and re-written code, the next generation of Web Wiz Forums is now here.
Web Wiz Forums version 8 has a completely re-written forum engine focusing on speed and performance to build a fast, robust, engine that can handle extremely large communities for both small and busy sites.
The amount of database queries used within Web Wiz Forums has been reduced significantly, with many pages, like the forum index page running with as few as 2 database queries processing the page in under 0.05 seconds, even with over 100 forums and sub forums!!
The HTML used with the forum has been undated to XHTML standards and CSS widely used to make page loading and rendering in web browsers much faster, with the added benefit of simple skinning to change the look and feel of Web Wiz Forums.
There are many other new and improved features, including, sub forums, post authorisation,
Web Wiz Rich Text Editor and
Web Wiz CAPTCHA integration, new technologies such as ‘HTML Secure’ for message filtering of malicious code, and many other features, some of which are listed below:-
- Improved performance with a new forum engine, most pages now process in under 0.05 seconds even on large forums
- Reduced the number of database queries down to under 4 on most pages
- Support for sub forums
- Web Wiz Rich Text Editor Version 3 integration
- Web Wiz CAPTCHA integration to prevent dictionary hacking and remote form submission
- Improved message filtering for malicious code using 'HTML Secure' Technology
- Forums can be setup so that certain members of groups require there posts to be authorised before being displayed to all users
- Complete control of look and feel through one CSS file
- Improved poll's with poll editing and better protection from repeat voting
- International ISO Date Format for internal forum engine for improved server and locale compatibility
- Improved, more powerful, better performing, forum search engine
- Database support for MS SQL Server, MS Access, and now mySQL
- Active user’s page now also shows location of users
- Improved member profile page, now also has Skype support
- Improved support for Right to Left languages
- CSS used throughout forum for the look and feel
- Improved look and simpler to use
- File sizes reduced to improved loading and browser rendering speed
- All HTML cleaned up and is now XHTML Transitional
- Topic and post orders can now be reversed
- Multiple page links improved and displayed top and bottom of pages
- Support for Topic Icons
- Support for STMP server authentication
- Improved image and file uploading, with files being removed when related posts are deleted
- Improved email activation system
- New, simpler to use, Group and Member permission system
- Progress bar now displayed when submitting many forms
- New error handling with descriptive error message to help track down errors and setup problems
- Simpler to setup SQL server and mySQL databases
- Simpler to move Access database to secure folder, with security alert message for those who don't
- Global server time/date off-set as well as member time/date off-set for changing date and time locale and format
- Improved end user error message displaying
- Simpler to login with more places to login
- Improved forum statistics displayed at the bottom of the forum index page
- New quick reply form to speed up page load times and cut bandwidth
- Improved Active Topics page to increase performance and improve server/locale compatibility
- Improved security with improved permissions checking, including in forum search engine
- Improved BB Forum codes
- Better formatting of Post Quote and Code blocks
- Improved support for Mozilla and Firefox browsers, including spell checker
- Improved performance for Private Message notification
- Over 80,000 lines of re-written and new code, and 2 years of constant development!!
Click here join the Web Wiz Forums version 8 beta testing program
Version 8 is for beta testing ONLY, as it has many known issues and is not stable.Bugs and ErrorsPlease do not post about bugs and errors in this topic, start and new topic and include as much detail as possiable including database version.
Edited by -boRg- - 25 January 2006 at 5:19pm
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