Provides Orchard CMS with a bare bones fully working forum

Original Documentation: https://github.com/Jetski5822/NGM.Forum/wiki

New Documentation: see the wiki.

• A more functionally complete forum for Orchard CMS.

• The theme boostrap 3.x based, made using the PJS.Bootstrap Theme for 1.7. It may require some tweaking depending on the Orchard Theme used.

• Made in Orchard 1.7.x. Will run in 1.8.x (+?) but not making use of the document DB at present.

• Note the Orchard 1.7.2 Caching module has a bug that creates a session variable in the URL. This will break the orchard pager so the module must be disabled.

• This module is currently stable but could use some internal cleanup and optimization.

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Advancing the forum functionality to include

• multiple forums on the same site each with their own landing page
• on the landing page the forums are grouped by categories with editable descriptions
• post editing and history viewing
• reply with quote
• read/unread status on threads per user
• innapropriate post reporting and management
• antispam integration
• datetime displays localized to the browser's time or the user's selected time zone
  • user's selected time zone requires implementing an interface the retrieves the user's preferred timezone from your own implementation
• subscriptions to threads
  • including customizable template for subscription notification emails
    • template is translatable to user's preferred language using a po.
    • 'preferred language' requires implementing an interface the hooks into your own 'user prefered language' implementation
• discussion list ( threads participated in )
• management of the forums on the front-end instead of the dashboard (so users that are moderators do not need dashboard access)
• forum search
• breadcrumb navigation
• change url to be the hierachy of the titles (i.e. /forum-home-name/category-name/forum-name/post-name ) -each level can be truncated to a set number of characters via settings
• html sanitization
• view recent posts
• mark all posts read

TODO: https://github.com/jon123/NGM.Forum/wiki/TODO

Vocabulary

• forums' homepage -> the landing page for a group of forums such as 'Community Forums' or 'Tech Support Forums'
• forum category -> a category that groups related forums on the landing page
• forum -> a general topic where users posts their questions/discussions
• post -> a question or discussion topic created by a user