This is an evaluation of the mwForum forum software. This evaluation is based on the version described as "The current stable version is mwForum 2.24.1, released 2011-07-05" on the project's web site. This evaluation is still in progress. If this evaluation is incorrect on any points or has become outdated, please write to the email address at the bottom of the page to inform the author.
mwForum is forum software created by Markus Wichitill.
The forum software has a huge number of features.
The interface's language can be changed. By default it has German and English versions.
The forum software is written in the Perl programming language.
mwForum is based on "print" statements rather than a templating system. mwForum tries not to rely on any non-core Perl modules. mwForum consists of a collection of Perl scripts for various tasks and Perl libraries.
mwForum uses the JavaScript library jQuery for some of its work.
mwForum supports log in via email and password or via OpenID using the Net::OpenID::Consumer Perl module.
There is a wide variety of different ways to customize the email
sending done by the forum, including using command-line
sendmail.
mwForum communicates with a database via SQL statements embedded in the Perl code.
The forum software can be customized via various plugin options, which seem to be Perl modules added in to the executable directory. These are available via the "forum_options.pl" page. There is also an option to add HTML to the top or bottom of every page.
The forum software does not seem to feature any tests.