PHPBoost is a French CMS (Content Managing System). The software allows anyone to create a website in a simple way. Designed to satisfy beginners, it should also delight advanced users who wish to push its limits, or to develop their own modules.
PHPBoost is free software distributed under the GPL license.
As its name suggests, PHPBoost uses PHP as main programming language, but, like any web application, it uses XHTML and CSS for pages formatting, JavaScript to provide dynamical effects on the pages, and SQL to perform operations in the database. It is installed on a Web server and remotely configurable.
As a large majority of free software community PHPBoost allows him to have both high reliability since many users have tested each version and thus approved. It is also in receipt of a rapidly changing as we try to be as much as possible to listen to the comments and suggestions of everyone. Even if everyone does not participate in its development, many people have helped us, just by giving us ideas, we suggest modifications, or additional features.
If you had to remember a few key points about the project, it would be these:
PHPBoost is free software distributed under the GPL license.
As its name suggests, PHPBoost uses PHP as main programming language, but, like any web application, it uses XHTML and CSS for pages formatting, JavaScript to provide dynamical effects on the pages, and SQL to perform operations in the database. It is installed on a Web server and remotely configurable.
As a large majority of free software community PHPBoost allows him to have both high reliability since many users have tested each version and thus approved. It is also in receipt of a rapidly changing as we try to be as much as possible to listen to the comments and suggestions of everyone. Even if everyone does not participate in its development, many people have helped us, just by giving us ideas, we suggest modifications, or additional features.
If you had to remember a few key points about the project, it would be these:
- Open Source Project under the GNU / GPL license
- Code HTML5 and CSS4
- Multilingual
- Easily customizable with themes and templates
- Management of rights and multiple groups for each user
- Url rewriting
- Help to develop new modules using the PHPBoost framework