Boardawy is the web standard free and open source code in Perl forum software and bulletin board system software BBS with unparalleled features and tools with free support.

Boardawy Main Features Summary

These are just a few of the main features only of the Boardawy software. The software has hundreds of features which can not be listed here.

SQL databases are the most powerful database systems until this moment that can handle several Gig bytes of information safely with the highest search speed and information retrieval. Based on this Mewsoft Boardawy built with all its databases using SQL. This includes all the categories, forums, topics, posts, mailing lists, accounts, users information, websites information, statistics and any data used by the software. This makes the software unlimited in its capacity and speed which puts the software on the top in race with the well known big forums software sites now on the net.

The software has built in category and forum manager in the admin center which allows to create unlimited number of categories and forums in each category. Since the categories are stored in SQL database then its is unlimited practically. Each category or forum can be configured separately for generating Meta Tags (title, description, keywords), using templates, sort order, permissions, html customizations, and more.

The software admin center has a language manager that allows the administrator to create unlimited number of languages and translate any language online or on your local PC in just a few minutes. The software by default comes with the language English only, any additional languages you need to just create it from the language manager and translate the text in minutes. The software use all the languages available in real time which allows the surfers and users to select which language they want and the software will keep their preferences using cookies so they need to select the language only the first time they visit the site. The language manager will allow the administrator to create new languages, delete languages, edit languages text or search and replace languages for certain text.

• Overview
  View account information summary.
• Edit Profile
  Users can edit and update their profile or registration information at any time.
• Sign out
  This option allows the users to log off their account for security specially if they use a shared computer.

The software is integrated with full banner manager software SQL database driven same as the software itself to handle millions of impressions per day for heavy traffic sites. The banner system allow to create and manage unlimited accounts, campaigns and banner zones or groups or locations on your templates. The banner also can be used directly on your other sites and your static or dynamic pages either with direct call or with SSI. All banner call are done from the same main banner program for all zones so you do not need to copy scripts or configure anything. The banner also has a cash buster to avoid browsers to cash banners images. The banner server also has a full client report area so all your banner advertisers will have a login to the stats area to check their campaigns stats in different format either daily or hourly report for every individual campaign.

The software admin center has many tools to manage and control everything in the system database. This includes tools also for managing the SQL server itself. Among these database and SQL server tools are:

• Backup or export the whole SQL database into delimited ASCII text file.

• Loading or importing the SQL database from ASCII delimited text files.

• Unloading and Loading SQL tables separately.

• Viewing SQL server variables and current status.

• Empty, delete, optimize, check SQL tables separately.

• SQL Commander to run and execute SQL statements.

• Create, delete, and manage SQL databases.

One of the most powerful features of this software is its use for pure html templates for every single byte generated by the software. This means there is no limit on the customizations the same as you edit normal html pages. Not only templates for the pages generated by the software but also for every form, hyperlinks, any generated output, listings, navigations, and everything the program prints to the output is customizable.

The software has built in script editor in the admin center which allow you to write your own Perl, HTML, and JS functions and insert the output to the templates with the rest of the program output. Custom functions can use the current program templates as well as you can define new templates to be used. This means you can build new functions with its own templates.

Not only you can build your own custom Perl functions but also you can directly integrate your current scripts and programs with the software and insert the programs output in the templates directly. There are many built in classes to run SSI functions from inside the templates.

The software has SQL based mailing lists system unlimited in its capacity for each list. The admin center "Mail manager" has full utilities to manage unlimited number of mailing lists and mass email:

• Create, edit mail letters

• Create unlimited lists

• Add, Delete subscribers

• Add, delete lists

• Send mass email to lists

• Select mail format text, or html

The software is very easy to install and configure even for just beginners. No need to be programmer or professional to run or manage the software on your server, all you need is the general internet stuff, like how to use any ftp program to transfer files, how to change files permissions, very little html to customize the templates or links to your look and feel. Just transfer the files to your server, change permissions and you are done with the installation. The software has built in setup and configuration wizard that will check and create directories, permissions, SQL tables and more.

The first thing you must search in any software is how far is it customizable. Whatever its function if it is not 100% customizable then it looses at least 80% of its value. Mewsoft Boardawy software like all Mewsoft products is very customizable. There is not single byte that is not customizable. Lets explain this shortly

The software uses html templates for the body of the pages that generated. Inside these html templates are the output of the cgi programs and the text itself.

Now the software is multi-lingual, which means the same text should be in different languages and this is done by inserting language variables inside the templates between "[[" and "]]", for example a field form that has text label "Please enter your first name" this has assigned a variable name for example first_name, to insert this label in the template just insert it like this [[first_name]]. When the surfer selects specific language this variable will be translated from the language selected. This shows that you can move this language variable anywhere inside your template. The value of the language variables itself you change it from the language file, so you edit it to anything you want.

Second, the cgi programs output is inserted inside these html templates in two methods. The first method is by using Plugins between comments like this . Of course you move this Plugin anywhere inside your templates. The second method is using what we called it Classes in the templates in the form like this , these classes can be used anywhere in your templates. So basically everything the program prints out is customizable and you have full control over the look and feel. You can use any WYSIWYG html editor like FrontPage 2000 or else to edit the templates. The admin center has built in visual html template editor online and Visual html editor integrated.