bbsengine 20060519-1400 review

bbsengine is a modular, object-oriented application framework that implements and manages templates, permissions, membership, databas

License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Jeff MacDonald

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bbsengine is a modular, object-oriented application framework that implements and manages templates, permissions, membership, database access, etc. bbsengine includes modules that allow for news, forums, links, and so forth.

Here are some key features of "bbsengine":
glossary (aka "aolbonics" or "urban dictionary")
forums (posts and responses)
news (with comments)
poll (voting booth)
link (database of html anchors)
gfile (old-school bbs term for "general file" aka "text files")
"bbcode" rendering
permissions (boolean values assigned to each member)
authentication (login and password)

Requirements:
PHP 4.2.2
Python 2.2
Smarty PHP template engine 2.6.0

What's New in This Release:
Template usage has been improved, making it less likely that the Webmaster needs to know PHP in order to make changes to the system.
Several bugs were fixed in the code, including one in the sig module that would cause data loss when editing.
CAPTCHA protection has been added to article comments and sig posts.