FUDforum

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.[1] It is comparable to other forum software. FUDforum is customizable and has a large feature set relative to other forum packages.[2]

FUDforum
Screenshot of a typical FUDforum message board.
Original author(s)Ilia Alshanetsky
Developer(s)Community (Advanced Internet Designs Inc.)
Initial release2001 (2001)
Stable release
3.1.0 / June 12, 2020 (2020-06-12)
Repository
Written inPHP
Operating systemAny
PlatformCross-platform
Available inMultilingual (English and 50+ other languages)
TypeForum software
Mailing list archiver
LicenseGPL v2
Websitefudforum.org

FUDforum runs on a number of operating systems that are able to support the PHP programming language, including Unix, Linux and Windows systems. To store its data, FUDforum relies on either IBM DB2, Firebird, MS-SQL, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL or SQLite. The interface is based on HTML5 with CSS, jQuery and AJAX to provide a more flexible user interface.[3]

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 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.

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

References

Further reading

  • Nicholas Petreley (April 22, 2002) No FUD about FUDForum, SYS-CON Belgium
  • Nicholas Petreley (October 23, 2002) Stop your BBS shopping & try FUDforum, SYS-CON Belgium
  • Peter B. Macintyre, "Discussion Forums Made Easy: FUDforum 2.7.1", September 2005 (PDF) issue of php|architect, pages 59–62.
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