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eFiction is a software program that enables users to run automated original or fanfiction archives on their websites. The program is PHP and MySQL database driven and is released as open-source software.

Contents

Features

User Features

  • Membership system
  • Author bio page
  • Image uploads that can be included in stories

Admin Features

  • Multi-level admin system that allows different admin levels access to certain features
  • Ability to validate some or all stories/authors
  • Ability to turn off submissions completely

Archive Features

  • Multiple categories of fanfiction
  • Characters assigned to each category
  • Genres, ratings, warnings
  • Sorting/searching by genre, rating, warning, characters in each category page
  • Simple front page news system
  • Templating system that allows for multiple, unique looking skins

New or Improved in 2.0.x-3.x.x

  • Works with register globals off
  • Challenge system
  • Top Tens lists
  • Blocks system
  • Admin options more integrated into the site
  • Ability for members to choose password at registration (turned on/off in admin panel)
  • Ability to set certain ratings for members only and/or require age consent statement
  • Age consent statement in user profile (turned on/off in admin panel)
  • RSS feeds
  • TinyMCE integrated with option in admin panel to turn it on/off
  • Header and footer in separate .tpl files
  • Favorite author/story alerts (turned on/off in admin panel)
  • Series (groups of stories) Series can also include other groups of series (sub-series) with unlimited levels
  • Ability to upload one story to multiple categories
  • Site-wide characters
  • Ability to add multiple characters to a category at one time
  • Characters with apostrophes in their names work correctly
  • Ability to set minimum and maximum word counts for story chapters
  • Improved advance search page including searching by word count

Versions

Support Documentation

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