SooP Portal - Phoenix core

Welcome to Soop Portal Phoenix Alpha,

The next generation of Soop Portal, the free open source virtual community software and content management system. Virtual communities built with Soop Portal software have nearly unlimited possibilities, not the least of which is the potential to change our world for the better by empowering critical discussion, democratic interaction, and collaboration across vast physical boundaries. Therefore, Soop believes its obligation is not only to the Soop user community, but also to our planet. We welcome you to Soop and we hope you enjoy your visit.

Soop Portal presents your web community with a broad and rich feature-set which is supported by a friendly and talented development community. Soop Portal web community software is free and includes the following core features and functionality...

Soop Portal Phoenix Features...

• Community discussion forums

• Secure database driven community polling system

• Banner management system

• Portal statistics

• RSS news feed system

• Live flash chat box

• File & image upload system

• Administrative & developer documentation management system

• Menu management system

• Guestbook feature

• Email notification system

• User authentication system with persistent user profiles & preferences

• Page creator & document content management system

• News management system

• Personal calendar system

• Private messenger system

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) system

• Buddy management system

• Soop is multi-language capable with UTF-8 character encoding for true international left-to-right and right-to-left language support

• Skin system to modify the portal appearance

• User & group permissions system

• And much, much, more!

The Soop Portal Phoenix Software...

• Soop is a *FREE* open source software product supported by a friendly and helpful support community

• Soop Phoenix is written with Classic-ASP a simpler and straight forward language to modify

• Soop Phoenix has been developed from the ground up with quality and reliability in mind, and uses advanced concepts such as class-based design, I/O streams protection against SQL and XSS attacks, and adherence to modern code design patterns

• Soop is database-driven supporting MySQL, MSSQL & MS Access databases

• Soop Phoenix has been designed to be 3rd party developer friendly

• Soop Phoenix has been designed with an attack-resistant core to provide protection against I/O streams, SQL injection, and XSS attack

• Soop is CAPTCHA anti-spam technology enabled

• Soop Phoenix is multi-site (multi-database) capable allowing a single code-base to host unlimited Soop websites & domains (on a varied mixture of Access/MSSQL/MYSQL databases)...as a result, patching, improving, or just tweaking your family of multiple Soop websites requires modification just a single piece of code