Presentation on Lfor, a Lasso-based Forums application, by Eric Landmann at the Lasso Developer's Conference, Oct. 1-4 2009 in Amsterdam.

1. an open-source forums application
Eric Landmann, Iterate LLC
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2. an open-source
forums application

3. Front End Features
• Forum – Topic – Thread structure
• Image upload for message
• Member management – Users must register and be approved
• Up to five post names
• Search function
• Provided FAQ, copyright, suggestions, and terms of use pages
• Retrieve password function
• Information request per topic
• Member can subcribe to e-mail notification of new posts
• Include for ad panels

4. Admin Features
• Enable/disable forums, topics or individual messages
• Examine customer info requests
• Can run in root or subfolder of VH
To Do
• Manage members
• Integrate optional Captcha

12. System Requirements
• Lasso Professional 8.5
• ImageMagick 6.4 or greater
• PassThru
• MySQL 5.x
Google Group! http://code.google.com/p/lfor/
• Subversion code repository
Example Sites
• http://www.climbingcentral.com/forums
• http://forums.steepnbrew.com/