phpMyFAQ 1.6.7 review

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phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system

License: MPL (Mozilla Public License)
File size: 756K
Developer: Thorsten Rinne
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phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. phpMyFAQ support various database systems and it also offers a content management system with a WYSIWYG editor, an image manager, flexible multi-user support, a news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML support, PDF support, DocBook XML support, a backup system, and an easy to use installation script.

Here are some key features of "phpMyFAQ":
Varius supported database systems:
You can use MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, MaxDB or SQLite.
LDAP integration:
Add your company's LDAP based user management into phpMyFAQ
Content Management System:
You can administrate your users, news, themes, categories and records in the password protected admin area.
User Administration:
Selected users can edit and administrate records.
Record Administration:
Your users can write new records, the administrator has te unlock the record. The admin can also edit the record, move into a another category oder delete the record.
WYSIWYG editor:
Write your articles like you do in OpenOffice.org or Word.
Image Manager:
The Image Manager provides an web interface to browse for image files (JPEG, PNG, GIF, and others) on the web server.
News Administration:
Write news that appear on the FAQ mainpage.
User-Tracking:
Analyze the way of your users through your FAQ.
User-Voting:
With the voting of the users you can analyze the quality of your records.
Top 10:
You'll get a Top 10 with ten of the most popular records.
Language files:
phpMyFAQ supports more than 25 languages including Arabic, Chinese and Vietnamese.
Multilanguage support:
Write records in different languages.
Search engine optimization:
Support for Apache mod_rewrite and IIS ISAPI_rewrite
Firefox search plugin support:
Search through your FAQ using Firefox search
Sitemap:
Lists all FAQ articles in a alphabetical order
Template system:
Custimize your FAQ to your webdesign.
Simple installation and configuration:
Install and set up your FAQ only with your browser!
5 different views for records:
XHTML, printer optimized XHTML, PDF, DocBook XML and plain XML
XML-RPC interface:
Support for searching over the internet.
Backup:
export and import from SQL tables
Community module:
Users can write questions to the system, so that other user can answer these questions.
Send2Friend:
User can send records up to five friends with email.
PHP 5.x ready
phpMyFAQ 1.5.x works with PHP 5.x

Requirements:
PHP
from version 4.1.0 (recommended: PHP 4.4.2 or PHP 5.0.5)
register_globals = off (recommended)
safe_mode = off
Webserver (Apache 1.3.x/2.0.x or lighttpd or IIS)
Database server
MySQL 3.23.23+, 4.0.x, 4.1.x (recommended: 4.1.x)
MySQL 4.1.x and 5.0.x with the PHP5 MySQLi extension (recommended: 5.0.x)
PostgreSQL 7.x, 8.x (recommended: 8.0.x)
Sybase
Microsoft SQL Server 2000
SQLite
IBM DB2 Universal Database 8.2.x, IBM Cloudscape, and Apache Derby
MaxDB 7.5 or later (experimental)
Oracle 10g (planned)
correctly set: access permissions, owner, group

What's New in This Release:
This release adds a Persian (Farsi) translation.
It also fixes some PHP 5.2.0 related issues and some minor bugs.

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