Features
Quick Overview
Features
If you're looking for a complete overview of EBA-News' many features, this is the place to look.
Installation
- With the automatic installer, you'll be up and running in minutes. It is a straightforward process explained in detail. FTP access is only needed to CHMOD files if the script doesn't manage to.
Encoding and language support
- Built with UTF-8 in mind.
- Comes with a set of language files, including English and Norwegian.
Security
- Designed with security as first-priority — «better safe than sorry».
- Unique salts are merged with all user passwords in the database for extra security.
- All passwords are hashed using sha1, one of the most secure methods nowadays.
- Support only for cookie-based sessions because of security reasons.
Article Publishing
- With the inclusion of the TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor, article publishing is just like typing in Word
- Upload and attach images with only a few mouse clicks
- Save drafts and publish them at a later stage when you're done typing
- Save articles in multiple categories, disable comments or send trackbacks.
Users and Userlevels
- Create as many users as you'd like.
- Divide your users into different userlevels: «Administrators», «Super Users» and «Users».
Feeds
- Validating RSS 2.0 feed support for article summaries, full articles and comments
- Validating ATOM 1.0 feed support for article summaries
Comments
- "Save personal information" saves your static information for later use
- "Private comment" makes the comment only viewable for administrators
- Gravatar support
Administration Panel
- General configuration like thumbnail configuration, language, word censor etc.
- User authorization
- Complete member management
- IP tracking of comments
- Smiley configuration
Style and Customisation
- Template files to make sure layouts are easily integratable with your current site
- Complete control of fonts and colors with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Default style compliant with XHTML 1.0 recommendations from the W3C