Forum

This module allows you to create any number of forums to organize and support communities and discussions, form steady audience of the site and achieve other purposes. In the forum messages you can give links, type formatted text, set icons for each message.

Only authorized users can write messages in the forum. It means that for the forum’s working it is necessary to set up authorization forms.

In a module folder there should be located the following files:

Default.ascx - forum requests dispatcher. You should change nothing in this file;
Forums.ascx - a page with a forums list. On this page there can be also locate the forum administrators messages;
Threads.ascx - a page that displays a forum threads list;
ThreadMessages.ascx - a page that displays message list from the forum thread;
Message.ascx - a page with a form for forum messages editing.

You should also set up representation of a page Authorization/UserInfo.aspx that displays information about messages authors in the forum.

In a module folder there are folders that contain icons necessary for the forum’s working:

MessageBoxIcons - this folder contains icons for the message editor;
Signs - this folder contains message icons;
Smiles - this folder contains smiles that the user can insert into messages.

If you wish to add new message icons or smiles or to edit them, you should just modify them or copy files in Signs and Smiles folders.

In a Smiles folder there are two copies of one smile. First without underline at the beginning (for example ‘mySmile.gif’) is inserted into a message. Second with underline at the beginning (for example ‘_mySmile.gif’) is displayed in a list of smiles possible to be inserted into a message.

Requests dispatcher

Requests dispatcher is located in default.ascx. This file doesn’t need to be changed. It only distributes requests and loads the necessary forum template.

This file should contain the following (only this and nothing else):

<%@ Control Language="c#" Inherits="CMSLib.Modules.Forums.ForumDispatcher" %>

AuthorizationForms: Authorization forms | User data page