#PATH OF SYSTEM FILES AND DIRECTORIES 

FORUM_TITLE
The title of the forum.  This title will appear inside the HTML <title> tag.

FORUM_ENABLED
Enable/disable the forum.  Use this while you are upgrading or performing maintenance on the forum.

DISABLED_REASON
This message will be shown to users when the forum is disabled.

ALLOW_REGISTRATION
Enable/disable new user registration.

WWW_ROOT
This is the URL of your forum.

#CUSTOM AVATAR SETTINGS

CUSTOM_AVATARS
Enable/disable to use of avatars.  Definitions of the options:

URL - Users will need to give a URL to their avatar.
Uploaded - The avatar will be uploaded to the server.
Built In - A user can choose an avatar from the avatars available in the forum.
ALL - A user can use a URL or an uploaded/built-in avatar.
OFF - Avatars are disabled.

CUSTOM_AVATAR_MAX_SIZE
This is the maximum size (in bytes) of the custom avatar image (uploaded to server).

CUSTOM_AVATAR_MAX_DIM
This is the maximum dimension that a custom avatar can be.

#COOKIE & SESSION SETTINGS

COOKIE_PATH
The cookie path for the forum.

COOKIE_TIMEOUT
The cookie timeout. When the user's cookie expires, the user will have to login again.

SESSION_TIMEOUT
The session timeout. When the user's session expires, the user will have to login again.

COOKIE_DOMAIN
The domain of the cookie that will be used by the forum.

COOKIE_NAME
The name of the cookie that will be used by the forum.

#DATABASE SETTINGS

DBHOST
This setting can either be an Internet IP address in a form of
AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD:PORT, or it can point to a valid Unix domain socket (such as
:/tmp/mysql.sock).  It is highly recommended that you use Unix domain sockets
to communicate with the database (due to faster performance).

DBHOST_USER
The username for the database you intend to use the system with.

DBHOST_PASSWORD
The password for the username.

DBHOST_DBNAME
Database name for the forum.

DBHOST_PERSIST
Whether or not to use persistent connections.  Highly recommended
unless you have a good reason not to.

DBHOST_TBL_PREFIX
The prefix for the FUDforum's database tables. Do not modify this option.

#PRIVATE MESSAGE SETTINGS

PM_ENABLED
Enable/disable private messaging.  Enabled by default.

PRIVATE_ATTACHMENTS
This is how many attachments you want to allow per private message.
Setting this to 0 will disable file attachments completely.

PRIVATE_ATTACH_SIZE
The maximum size of an attached file (in bytes).

PRIVATE_TAGS
This setting specifies what kind of text formatting to allow in private messages.

PRIVATE_MSG_SMILEY
Enable/disable smilies in private messages.

PRIVATE_IMAGES
Enable/disable images in private messages.

MAX_PMSG_FLDR_SIZE
The maximum number of bytes of private messages that a user can have at a time.

#SIGNATURE SETTINGS

ALLOW_SIGS
Enable/disable user signatures in posts.

FORUM_CODE_SIG
This setting specifies what kind of text formatting to allow in signatures.

FORUM_SML_SIG
Enable/disable smilies in signatures.

FORUM_IMG_SIG
Enable/disable images in signatures.

#OTHER FORUM OPTIONS 

ADMIN_EMAIL
Email address of the forum administrator.

COPPA
Enable/disable the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA)
check during new user registration.

SPELL_CHECK_ENABLED
Enable/disable the built-in spell checker.

POSTS_PER_PAGE
The default number of posts per page.

THREADS_PER_PAGE
The default number of topics per page.  NOTE: If you change this value you
MUST run the consistency checker, otherwise the forum will not work properly.

WORD_WRAP
This setting defines on how many character to wrap message bodies on, any text string longer the the number of character in this option will be broken down into 1 or more strings using a space as a separator.
Set this to 0 to disable word wrapping.

FLOOD_CHECK_TIME
The minimum time delay before a user can post a message.

PUBLIC_EMAIL_VIEW
Enable/disable the showing of email addresses in the user information page.

ALLOW_EMAIL
Enable/disable the forum's built-in email client.

SERVER_TZ
Server time zone, specified in time offset from UTC.

MEMBER_SEARCH_ENABLED
Enable/disable the forum member search.

FORUM_SEARCH
Enable/disable the ability to do a full text search of the forum.  Disable
this option if you have little CPU power and/or wish to conserve SQL space.
If option is disabled the search database will NOT be populated during posting.
If you decide to enable the search at a later point, you will need to rebuild
the search index.  This may take a while, and is entirely dependent on the
speed of your server and the number of messages your forum has.

MEMBERS_PER_PAGE
The number of members to show per page in the search result.

THREAD_MSG_PAGER
The pager that appears near every topic.

GENERAL_PAGER_COUNT
This is the number of direct links to pages that will be shown in the pager, excluding << < > >>.

SHOW_EDITED_BY
Enable/disable the text that will reveal if a post was edited.

EDITED_BY_MOD
Enable/disable the text that will reveal if an edited post was edited by a moderator.

EDIT_TIME_LIMIT
This sets the length of time a message can be edited before message editing is disabled.
Set the value to 0 to give unlimited editing time.

DISPLAY_IP
Publicly display the IP address that the message was posted from.

LOGEDIN_TIMEOUT
The length of time of non-activity before the forum considers a user no longer active in the forum.

MAX_IMAGE_COUNT
The maximum number of images allowed per post. Set to 0 to allow unlimited images.

FORUM_IMG_CNT_SIG
The maximum number of images to allow inside a signature. Set to 0 to allow unlimited images.

NOTIFY_FROM
The email address that all of the forum-generated email, such as notifications and welcome messages, should be sent as.
This MUST be a valid email address that you have access to.

ANON_NICK
The username that is attached to anonymous posts if anonymous posting is allowed.

MAX_LOGIN_SHOW
The maximum length of the user's login/alias.

MAX_LOCATION_SHOW
The maximum number of characters of a user's location to show on all forms except userinfo.

PUBLIC_RESOLVE_HOST
Enable/disable the showing of the partially resolved hostname of the poster to all users
(ex. me.myself.com will be shown as .myself.com).  This option does not affect the showing of
IP addresses.

ACTION_LIST_ENABLED
Enable/disable the ability for forum users to see what other forum users are doing.

LOGEDIN_LIST
Enable/disable the list of users who are currently using the forum on the front page.
This option is a MUST be enabled if you want to enable the Allow Action List.

EMAIL_CONFIRMATION
Enable/disable email confirmation of new registered accounts.  A special URL
will be sent in the welcome email upon registration.

PUBLIC_STATS
Enable/disable the showing of how long it took the generate the page and how
many SQL queries were run in the process.

DEFAULT_THREAD_VIEW
The default view of the topic's contents and topic listing.

FORUM_INFO
Enable/disable the showing of forum statistics on the front page.  Statistics
include the total number of approved posts, number of topics and registered
users and the last registered user.

ONLINE_OFFLINE_STATUS
Enable/disable the online/offline status indicator for the poster on messages.

UNCONF_USER_EXPIRY
The number of days unconfirmed forum members are held in the database.
They will be removed from database after this period of time.

MOVED_THR_PTR_EXPIRY
The number of days to show a pointer of a moved topic from the original forum to the new forum.
The pointer will be removed after this period of time.

DATA_DIR
The directory where the forum's internal data is being stored.

WWW_ROOT_DISK
The location on the disk where the forum's images are stored.

SHOW_N_MODS
Up to how many moderators per forum to show on the front page.

CUSTOM_AVATAR_APPOVAL
If set to yes the administrator will have to approve every custom avatar the user uploads or
provides a url to.

MAX_SMILIES_SHOWN
Maximum number of smilies to display on the post forms.

NOTIFY_WITH_BODY
Include the message body and subject inside the email notification.

USE_ALIASES
Allow users to specify a nick name, that will be used instead of a login name to identify
those users on the forum.

MULTI_HOST_LOGIN
This option allows users to login into the forum from different computers/browsers and not
terminate their existing sessions on other computers/browsers.

USE_SMTP
Whether or not to use FUDforum SMTP gateway to send email instead of standard PHP mail()
function. Not recommended, unless you need SMTP AUTH or wish to use alternate SMTP 
server on UNIX systems.

FUD_SMTP_SERVER
The ip or host name of the SMTP server.

FUD_SMTP_TIMEOUT
The number of seconds to wait for the SMTP server to respond to a request.

FUD_SMTP_LOGIN
If your SMTP server requires SMTP Authentication, enter the login name here.

FUD_SMTP_PASS
If your SMTP server requires SMTP Authentication, enter the password here.

POLLS_PER_PAGE
How many polls to display per page on the poll listing.

TREE_THREADS_ENABLE
Whether or not to allow the tree view of the topic listing. This is a fairly
CPU intensive page compared to all other forum pages, so use this option with 
caution.

TREE_THREADS_MAX_DEPTH
Maximum depth of the tree to allow, this option will prevent long trees from
scrolling far of the users screen making the page unreadable.

TREE_THREADS_MAX_SUBJ_LEN
At which point to cutoff subjects of messages on topic listing in tree mode. 
This options allows you to save on screen space if you want to show large topic
trees.

MODERATE_USER_REGS
Whether or not every new registration will need to be approved by the administrator
before the new account is activated.

REG_TIME_LIMIT
This limit allows you to define how often can a registration can occur. Set the
value of this field to -1 if you do not wish to limit registrations.

ENABLE_AFFERO
Enable affero, this will result in an Affero button being shown beside each
message, allowing users to give feedback via the Affero system.

SESSION_USE_URL
Allow session ids to be passed not only via cookies but, via URL variables.

AVATAR_ALLOW_SWF
Allow users to upload Macromedia Flash avatars, not recommended unless you
trust your users implicitly, since Flash animation can potentially trigger
various browser events.

SEARCH_CACHE_EXPIRY
Due to the complexity of the searching process the search results are being
cached. This option allows you to define the maximum age of entries 
(in seconds) stored inside this cache. By default the cache age is set to
2 days.

STATS_CACHE_AGE
Generating forum statistics is somewhat expensive (CPU wise) therefor the 
results are being cached for a small period of time, which should significantly
reduce the front page load on popular forums. This option allows you to define
(in seconds) the maximum time for which the forum stats will be cached.

ENABLE_THREAD_RATING
Whether or not to allow users to rate topics.

TRACK_REFERRALS
Whether or not to try to track forum referrals by setting a cookie with referral
id to new incoming users.

POST_ICONS_PER_ROW
Number of message icons to show per row on message posting form.

MAX_LOGGEDIN_USERS
Maximum number of currently logged-in users to show on the front page.

PHP_COMPRESSION_ENABLE
Whether or not to use php to compress forum's output. By turning
this option you are likely to save a fair bit of bandwidth. However, for performance
reasons it is recommended that you use native compression built-in into most webservers
like mod_gzip for Apache.

PHP_COMPRESSION_LEVEL
If php's compression is used, this indicates how extensively should the data be
compressed, the values can range from 1-9.

USE_PATH_INFO
Whether or not use PATH_INFO based URLs, this will make forum's URLs look like
http://a.com/index.php/a/b/c/. This makes forum's URLs much easier to remember
as well as more search engine friendly. Unfortunately this feature mostly works
with Apache 1.X based servers and may not work with other webservers. To see if
your webserver supports this feature, click on the test link above. If you see
forum's front page, then you can make use of this feature. To make use of this
you will also need to create a new template based on the 'path_info' template
set.

ALLOW_PROFILE_IMAGE
Whether or not to allow users to enter a URL to an image in their profile that
will be displayed on the user info page for that user. The danger of this feature
is that the user could potentially link to a page other then an image and some
browsers like Internet Explorer will parse that page executing any potentially 
hostile Javascript that may be present.

NEW_ACCOUNT_NOTIFY
This setting will only be used if you have chosen to manually approve all new
registrations. If enabled, then everytime a new user is registred all forum
administrators will recieve a notification via e-mail.

MODERATED_POST_NOTIFY
Notify forum moderators via e-mail when a new message is posted in a forum
where a message must first be approved by the moderator before shown to the
rest of the visitors.

BUST_A_PUNK
When a user is banned set a special cookie that will try to make sure that
this user remains banned.

