Binary options - fudforum/FUDforum GitHub Wiki
This page is meant for developers to see what binary values are in use for FUD_OPT_1, FUD_OPT_2, FUD_OPT_3 and FUD_OPT_4. These values are defined in GLOBALS_HELP and used in the forum's GLOBALS.php file (both files are in the FUDdata/include directory).
| Option | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FORUM_ENABLED | 1 | Enable/disable the forum. Use this while you are upgrading or performing maintenance on the forum. |
| ALLOW_REGISTRATION | 2 | Enable/disable new user registration. |
| CUSTOM_AVATARS | 4 | Avatars - URL Only |
| CUSTOM_AVATARS | 8 | Avatars - Uploaded Only |
| CUSTOM_AVATARS | 16 | Avatars - Built In Only |
| CUSTOM_AVATAR_APPROVAL | 32 | If set to yes the administrator will have to approve every custom avatar the user uploads or provides a URL to. |
| CUSTOM_AVATAR_ALLOW_SWF | 64 | Allow users to upload Macromedia Flash avatars, not recommended unless you trust your users implicitly, since Flash animation can potentially trigger various browser events. |
| SESSION_USE_URL | 128 | Allow session ids to be passed not only via cookies but, via URL variables. |
| DBHOST_PERSIST | 256 | Whether or not to use persistent connections. Slight performance increase, but may cause problems. |
| USE_SMTP | 512 | 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. |
| PM_ENABLED | 1024 | Enable/disable private messaging. Enabled by default. |
| PRIVATE_TAGS | 4096 | Text formatting to allow in private messages - FUD ML |
| PRIVATE_TAGS | 2048 | Text formatting to allow in private messages - None |
| PRIVATE_MSG_SMILEY | 8192 | Enable/disable smilies in private messages. |
| PRIVATE_IMAGES | 16384 | Enable/disable images in private messages. |
| ALLOW_SIGS | 32768 | Enable/disable user signatures in posts. |
| FORUM_CODE_SIG | 65536 | Formatting to allow in signatures - None |
| FORUM_CODE_SIG | 131072 | Formatting to allow in signatures - FUD ML |
| FORUM_SML_SIG | 262144 | Enable/disable smilies in signatures. |
| FORUM_IMG_SIG | 524288 | Enable/disable images in signatures. |
| COPPA | 1048576 | Enable/disable the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) check during new user registration. |
| SPELL_CHECK_ENABLED | 2097152 | Enable/disable the built-in spell checker. |
| MEMBER_SEARCH_ENABLED | 4194304 | Enable/disable the forum member search - Only for registered users |
| MEMBER_SEARCH_ENABLED | 8388608 | Enable/disable the forum member search - Enabled |
| FORUM_SEARCH | 16777216 | 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. |
| SHOW_EDITED_BY | 33554432 | Enable/disable the text that will reveal if a post was edited. |
| EDITED_BY_MOD | 67108864 | Enable/disable the text that will reveal if an edited post was edited by a moderator. |
| DISPLAY_IP | 134217728 | Publicly display the IP address that the message was posted from. The administrators will always see the IPs and so will the forum moderators in the forums they moderate. |
| PUBLIC_RESOLVE_HOST | 268435456 | 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 | 536870912 | Enable/disable the ability for forum users to see what other forum users are doing. |
| LOGEDIN_LIST | 1073741824 | 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. |
| Option | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| EMAIL_CONFIRMATION | 1 | Enable/disable email confirmation of new registered accounts. A special URL will be sent in the welcome email upon registration. |
| PUBLIC_STATS | 2 | 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 | 4 | Flat thread listing/Tree message listing |
| DEFAULT_THREAD_VIEW | 8 | Tree thread listing/Flat message listing |
| FORUM_INFO | 16 | 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 | 32 | Enable/disable the online/offline status indicator for the poster on messages. |
| NOTIFY_WITH_BODY | 64 | Include the message body and subject inside the email notification. |
| USE_ALIASES | 128 | 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 | 256 | This option allows users to login into the forum from different computers/browsers and not terminate their existing sessions on other computers/browsers. WARNING: If you enable this option it is highly recommended that you disable URL sessions. |
| TREE_THREADS_ENABLE | 512 | 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. |
| MODERATE_USER_REGS | 1024 | Whether or not every new registration will need to be approved by the administrator before the new account is activated. |
| ENABLE_AFFERO | 2048 | Enable affero, this will result in an Affero button being shown beside each message, allowing users to give feedback via the Affero system. Removed in FUDforum 3.0.7. |
| ENABLE_THREAD_RATING | 4096 | Whether or not to allow users to rate topics. |
| TRACK_REFERRALS | 8192 | Whether or not to try to track forum referrals by setting a cookie with referral id to new incoming users. |
| PHP_COMPRESSION_ENABLE | 16384 | 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 or mod_deflate for Apache. |
| USE_PATH_INFO | 32768 | 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 | 65536 | 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 | 131072 | This setting will only be used if you have chosen to manually approve all new registrations. If enabled, then everytime a new user is registered all forum administrators will receive a notification via e-mail. |
| MODERATED_POST_NOTIFY | 262144 | 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 | 524288 | When a user is banned set a special cookie that will try to make sure that this user remains banned. |
| SHOW_XML_LINK | 1048576 | Whether or not to show a syndication link, linking to help on how get XML/RDF feeds of forum's data. |
| SHOW_PDF_LINK | 2097152 | Whether or not to show a link allowing users to generate a printable PDF of the page they are viewing. |
| DWLND_REF_CHK | 4194304 | Check HTTP_REFERER of users before allowing users to download file attachments. If enabled, users who's HTTP_REFERER does not contain WWW_ROOT will be prevented from downloading the attachments. |
| FILE_LOCK | 8388608 | Whether or not to use secure file permissions (0600/0700). |
| RDF_ENABLED | 16777216 | Whether to allow RDF/XML feeds of the forum's data. |
| RDF_AUTH | 33554432 | Whether or not to perform permission checks to determine if the user has access the requested data. |
| RDF_ALLOW_USER_DATA | 67108864 | Whether or not to allow user profile data to be fetched via RDF. |
| PDF_ENABLED | 134217728 | Whether or not to enable PDF output. |
| PDF_ALLOW_FULL | 268435456 | Whether or not to allow users to generate a PDF containing ALL the messages in a particular forum. |
| SHOW_REPL_LNK | 536870912 | Whether or not to show a link (beside the message subject) to the message that the current message is a reply to. |
| ALLOW_EMAIL | 1073741824 | Enable/disable the forum's built-in email client. |
| Option | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SESSION_COOKIES | 1 | Make the cookie last only for as long as the browser window is open. If a security is a major concern, turn this option on. |
| DISABLE_TREE_MSG | 2 | Disable the threaded view of the contents for a single topic. |
| ENABLE_REFERRER_CHECK | 4 | Always check to make sure that the referring URL is on the same domain as the forum. |
| NNTP_OBFUSCATE_EMAIL | 8 | Whether or not to obfuscate user e-mails when sending e-mails from FUDforum to newsgroups. |
| SESSION_IP_CHECK | 16 | Whether or not to validate session's against user IP While this may increase security it will cause annoyances for users who's IP address frequently changes as they will need to re-login each time their IP changes. |
| HIDE_PROFILES_FROM_ANON | 32 | If enabled, anonymous and unconfirmed forum members will not be able to view profiles of registered users. |
| SMART_EMAIL_NOTIFICATION | 64 | Enable 'smart' e-mail notification mechanism that would only notify users if they read previous notification. This prevents filling up of the user's mailbox with notifications if they are not reading them. |
| DISABLE_TURING_TEST | 128 | If disabled users will not need to complete a turing test intended to prevent automated account creation bots. Captcha test involves identifying a series of random letters that are displayed in ASCII form. |
| DISABLE_AUTOCOMPLETE | 256 | If disabled the browser will not attempt to 'remember' the values for the login form. |
| NNTP_MIME_POSTS | 512 |
Format forum messages as MIME encoded posts before sending them to a newsgroup. If disabled, messages will be UUencoded. |
| EDIT_AFTER_REPLY | 1024 | If enabled, users will be able to edit their own posts, even after someone replied to it. Disable to prevent users from changing questions that are already answered. |
| DISABLE_WELCOME_EMAIL | 2048 | If enabled the forum will no longer send welcome e-mails when new users register. |
| USE_TEMP_TABLES | 4096 | Use temporary SQL tables to optimize some operations (dependent on the ability to create temp tables). |
| USE_ANON_TURING | 8192 | When anonymous users post messages perform captcha test. |
| FORUM_NOTIFY_ALL | 16384 | If enabled, subscribers to a forum will receive notifications about every new message in the forum, rather then just new topics in the forum. |
| DB_MESSAGE_STORAGE | 32768 | If enabled, regular and private messages will be stored inside a database. This is not recommended for performance reasons! |
| DISABLE_ANON_CACHE | 65536 | Disable sending of page-cache headers to anonymous users, this may solve extended caching by browsers non-complaint with web specs. |
| NO_ANON_ACTION_LIST | 131072 | Disable displaying of the action list to the anonymous users. |
| NO_ANON_WHO_ONLINE | 262144 | Disable displaying of who's online to the anonymous users. |
| ENABLE_GEO_LOCATION | 524288 | Enable country identifier flags beside each message poster, requires import of Geolocation database, see the Geolocation Management control panel for more details. |
| DISABLE_NOTIFICATION_EMAIL | 1048576 | Disable the system for sending e-mail notification pertaining to new messages and topics being posted to the forums regardless of the user's settings. |
| UPDATE_GEOLOC_ON_LOGIN | 2097152 | If enabled then user's country (name and flag) will be updated each time they login. This option depends on Geo Location being enabled. |
| PLUGINS_ENABLED | 4194304 | Enable/disable forum plugins. Plugins are typically created by third-party developers to extended the default capabilities of FUDforum. Introduced in 2.8.1. |
| QUICK_REPLY_ENABLED | 8388608 | Enable/disable the forum's quick reply feature. Introduced in 3.0.0. |
| QUICK_REPLY_DISPLAY | 16777216 | Quick reply display mode: collapsed or expanded. Introduced in 3.0.0. |
| GRAPHICAL_TURING | 33554432 | Use a graphical captcha instead of a text captcha (only if your PHP has GD support). Introduced in 3.0.0. |
| THREAD_DUP_CHECK | 67108864 | Check to ensure users do no post duplicate topics. Introduced in 3.0.0. |
| CALENDAR_ENABLED | 134217728 | Enable/disable the forum's calendar. Introduced in 3.0.1. |
| CALENDAR_SHOW_BIRTHDAYS | 268435456 | Show birthdays on the forum's calendar. Introduced in 3.0.2. |
| FORUM_DEBUG | 536870912 | Detailed logging. |
| FORUM_DEBUG | 1073741824 | Full debug mode. |
| Option | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ALLOW_LOGIN_CHANGE | 1 | Allow users to change their own logins. Disable if you authenticate users externally (i.e. via a plugin). Introduced in 3.0.2. |
| ALLOW_PASSWORD_RESET | 2 | Allow users to reset their own passwords. Introduced in 3.0.2. |
| KARMA | 4 | Enable karma / user reputation system. If enabled, member can upvote or downvote other members. |
| PAGES_ENABLED | 8 | Display pages icon on menu. This setting will automatically be enaled if there are pages that should be shown in the List of Pages. |
| BLOG_ENABLED | 16 | Enable the forum's blog/ portal page. |
| BLOG_HOMEPAGE | 31 | Show blog/portal page as the front page. |
Say, for example, your forum is disabled and you want to enable it manually from the GLOBALS.php config file:
FORUM_ENABLED is represented in $FUD_OPT_1 with a bit value of 1 (looked up from the above tables).
Now, if your currently have $FUD_OPT_1 = 1741616318, you need to change it to 1741616319 to enable your forum.