FUDforum

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FUDforum
Original author(s) Ilia Alshanetsky
Developer(s) Community (Advanced Internet Designs Inc.)
Initial release2001;22 years ago (2001)
Stable release
3.1.3 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 2023-04-23; 3 months ago
Repository
Written in PHP
Operating system Any
Platform Cross-platform
Available inMultilingual (English and 50+ other languages)
Type Forum software
Mailing list archiver
License GPL v2
Website fudforum.org

FUDforum is a free and open-source Internet forum software, originally produced by Advanced Internet Designs Inc., that is now maintained by the user community. The name "FUDforum" is an abbreviation of Fast Uncompromising Discussion forum. [2] It is comparable to other forum software. FUDforum is customizable and has a large feature set relative to other forum packages. [3]

Contents

FUDforum runs on a number of operating systems that are able to support the PHP programming language, including Unix, Linux and Windows systems. The interface is based on HTML5 with CSS, jQuery and AJAX. [4]

The code is released under the GNU General Public License and Internet sites can use the software royalty-free.

History

FUDforum was originally developed by Ilia Alshanetsky. The first version of FUDforum was released in 2001. Versions 2.8.0 and above are developed and supported by the community.

The 10 year anniversary release, FUDforum 3.0.3, was released on 10 September 2011.

Requirements

The FUDforum installation wizard Fudforum installer.jpg
The FUDforum installation wizard

FUDforum requires the following components to function:

Preconfigured versions

Two special pre-configured versions of FUDforum are available (doesn't require manual installation):

Features

Some of FUDforum's features include:

Integration

FUDforum's Admin Control Panel. FUDforum admin.jpg
FUDforum's Admin Control Panel.

A MediaWiki extension and Drupal CMS module is available to provide FUDforum integration. FUDforum can also be integrated with systems like DokuWiki and eGroupWare (not with eGroupware version 1.6).

Custom integration of third-party tools can be achieved via FUDforum's provided API, called FUDAPI.

Conversion scripts

Several conversion scripts are provided to convert other bulletin board and forum software to FUDforum. They include:

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Release 3.1.3". 23 April 2023. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
  2. ↑ Support Forum
  3. ↑ Forum-software.org's review
  4. ↑ AJAX Magazine, 8 May 2006 Archived 23 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ "Installation - FUDforum Wiki". cvs.prohost.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  6. ↑ FUDforum's wiki Archived 2010-08-03 at the Wayback Machine , visited on 20 July 2010.
  7. ↑ TKLPatch for FUDforum on the Turnkey Linux wiki Archived 2010-07-21 at the Wayback Machine , visited on 20 July 2010.
  8. ↑ FUDforum Wiki Archived 2009-03-06 at the Wayback Machine

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