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loganbest/forum
===============

A CakePHP forum plugin.

4.0.1(13y ago)018MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Oct 5Pushed 13y agoCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/loganbest/Forum)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/loganbest/forum)[ Docs](http://loganbest.net)[ RSS](/packages/loganbest-forum/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced yesterday

READMEChangelogDependencies (2)Versions (16)Used By (0)

Forum v4.0.1
============

[](#forum-v401)

A fully robust and powerful CakePHP forum plugin. Integrates with an external user system, support for topic and forum subscriptions, and many more features listed below.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 5.3.0
    - Multibyte
- CakePHP 2
    - Utility Plugin v1.4.0 -
- Composer

Compatibility
-------------

[](#compatibility)

- v3.3 - CakePHP 2.x, PHP 5.3, Composer
- v3.x - CakePHP 2.x, PHP 5.2
- v2.x - CakePHP 1.3, PHP 5.2

Contributors
------------

[](#contributors)

- Jose Antonio Sanchez - Spanish Locale
- Kristoffer Darj - Swedish Locale

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

Thorough documentation can be found here:

Features
--------

[](#features)

Forums

- Parent and children forums
- Activity and latest post tracking
- Auto-lock old topics
- Enable/disable post count increments
- Individual settings for reading, posting, replying, etc
- Access/private specific forums
- Create topics or polls
- Reply to topics, or quote previous posts
- Topic and forum subscription with email notifications

Moderation

- Moderators, Super Moderators and Admin levels
- Restrict moderators to specific forums
- Inline moderation and management
- Mass processing (Move, Delete, Close, etc)
- Ability to edit and manage users content

Administration

- Full admin panel using CakePHP Admin routing
- Utilizes ACL for permissions
- Can add, edit, order, delete all data
- Manage all reported content
- Promote, demote, create access levels, staff and moderators
- Manage all aspects and content

Security

- Utilizes CakePHPs Auth and Security Components
- Advanced flood protection (Posts and Topics)
- Hourly post limitations
- Registration security wall
- Form protection against bots and hackers

Miscellaneous

- BBCode support using Decoda
- Utilizes remember me features using AutoLogin
- Mark topics as read (Session)
- Log created topics and posts (Session)
- Access level verification
- Report system for topics, posts and users
- Search through topics (Title and Post)
- RSS feeds for each forum

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 52% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 96.9% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~14 days

Recently: every ~9 days

Total

15

Last Release

4810d ago

Major Versions

3.3.0-rc2 → 4.0.0-beta2013-01-26

3.3.0-rc3 → 4.0.0-rc12013-01-29

3.3.0 → 4.0.0-rc22013-02-01

3.x-dev → 4.0.12013-04-29

PHP version history (2 changes)3.2.0-rc3PHP >=5.2

3.3.0-rc1PHP >=5.3.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/410109?v=4)[Logan Best](/maintainers/loganbest)[@loganbest](https://github.com/loganbest)

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Top Contributors

[![milesj](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/143744?v=4)](https://github.com/milesj "milesj (317 commits)")[![blat](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/27487?v=4)](https://github.com/blat "blat (4 commits)")[![jameslarking](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/408075?v=4)](https://github.com/jameslarking "jameslarking (2 commits)")[![rchavik](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/39490?v=4)](https://github.com/rchavik "rchavik (1 commits)")[![kamui545](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/356978?v=4)](https://github.com/kamui545 "kamui545 (1 commits)")[![ceeram](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/111448?v=4)](https://github.com/ceeram "ceeram (1 commits)")[![kristofferdarj](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1397680?v=4)](https://github.com/kristofferdarj "kristofferdarj (1 commits)")

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