FeatherBB Readme

About

FeatherBB is an open source forum application released under the GNU General Public Licence. It is free to download and use and will remain so. FeatherBB is a fork of FluxBB 1.5 based on Slim Framework and designed to be simple and very lightweight, with modern features: MVC architecture, PDO, OOP and a plugin system. Maybe more? You are more than welcome to join the development :-)

Changelog

This is FeatherBB v1.0.0 Beta. It is intended for testing purposes only and not for use in a production environment. Please report all the bugs you may encounter to the forums or in the GitHub bug tracker.

Beta 5 (2019-05-05)

• API [adaur]
• New permission systen [beaver]
• Switch parser to TextFormatter [adaur]
• Migrate templates to Twig [adaur]
• Use .env for configuration [adaur]

Beta 4 (2016-02-21)

• Upgrade to Slim version 3 [beaver] [adaur]
• More OOP goodness thanks to static classes (User::, Input::, Post::, ...) [beaver]
• Download and install plugins right from the admin panel [adaur]
• Switch to Json Web Token for authentication [beaver]
• Better installer [beaver]
• Cleaner gettext code [adaur]

Beta 3 (2015-09-09)

• Plugin system and some hooks [beaver] [adaur]
• New architecture ready for Composer [beaver]
• New template system [capkokoon] [adaur]
• Gettext implemented [adaur]
• Dynamic URLs within code [beaver]
• Better permission handling [adaur]
• OOP parser [adaur]
• Major namespaces cleanup [adaur]
• New caching system [capkokoon]
• New error handler [capkokoon]
• New installer [capkokoon]
• Static functions files converted to OOP [capkokoon] [beaver] [adaur]

Beta 2 (2015-08-11)

• New DB Layer [adaur]
• Flash messages [beaver]
• BBCode editor [beaver]
• CSRF tokens [capkokoon]
• Cookie encryption improved [capkokoon]
• htaccess management improved [adaur]

Beta 1 (2015-07-09)

• Integration with Slim Framework v2.6.2 [adaur]
• New parser [ridgerunner]
• MVC architecture [adaur]
• URL rewriting [adaur]
• Routing system [adaur]
• Responsive default style [Magicalex]
• Database schema compatible with FluxBB [adaur]
• Antispam protection [adaur]
• Themes fully customizables [adaur]
• PHP 4 support dropped [adaur]
• PSR-2 compliant [Magicalex]

Requirements

• A webserver
• PHP 5.5.0 or later
• A database such as MySQL 4.1.2 or later, PostgreSQL 7.0 or later, SQLite 2 or later

Recommendations

• Make use of a PHP accelerator such as OPCache
• Make sure PHP has the zlib module installed to allow FeatherBB to gzip output
• If you download directly from the repository, make sure to run a composer install to setup the dependencies (Slim Framework and some more)

Links

• Homepage: https://featherbb.org
• Documentation: https://featherbb.org/docs/
• Community: https://forums.featherbb.org/
• Chat: https://gitter.im/featherbb/featherbb
• Development: https://github.com/featherbb/featherbb

Contributors

• [adaur] Project leader
• [capkokoon] contributor
• [beaver] contributor
• [Magicalex] contributor