There are 2 main database files

• TmpForum.mdb - This is the main forum database template
• Forums.mdb - This database keeps track of all the forums created within the application

The Control Panel application functionality consists of

• Creating forums (Placing a copy of the TmpForum in the selected directory with the new forum name)
• Edit Forum (Edit the forum description)
• Remove forums - (Delete the forum database from the directory and delete the forum record from the Forums.mdb database)
• Remove Forum Entries

  Remove All Topics from selected forum

  Remove selected Topic

  Remove all Topics by selected Author

  Remove selected Response

  Remove all Responses by selected Author

There are 2 application configurations files

• FrmAppConfig.inc - This file allows the administrator to set the

  Database connection path

  Number of topics shown per page

  Forum page background color

  Header area background color

  Header area font color

  Body area Font face

  Body area background color

  Activate/De-activate email response notification function

  Activate/De-activate language filter to filter out unwanted language in forums

• FrmMaintConfig.inc - This file allows the administrator to set the

  Access password for the maintenance area

  The Database connection path and Database directory path

  Font face

  Font color

Have you ever post something on a forum and then wished you could change or delete it. Well now you can, when a user posts a Topic or a Response to a Topic if they enter their email address and a password they will be able to.

• Delete topics that have not yet been responded to
• Update topics that have been responded to
• Delete their responses to a topic
• Update their responses to a topic
• If a posted topic has a valid email address the poster will get an email notification when their post is responsed to

When Searching a forum you have the option of searching

• Topics Table

  By Author

  By Topic

  By Question

• Response Table

  By Author

  By Topic

  By Response

Where table and field selected contains text like entered in the search text area.

• By Date between

  From and To dates

When posting a question or a response to a question if you want to enter a hyperlink just enter it like (www.somedomain.com/somepage.html).