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, D
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
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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
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· added new and improved frontend and backend user interface based on Twitter Bootstrap
· added improved advanced search in subcategories
· added possibility to close and delete open questions
· added user control panel
· dropped support for IBM DB2, Interbase/Firebird and Sybase
· improved usability of administration backend
· improved setup and update
· improved security with salted passwords
· improved CSS development with LESS
· updated bundled jQuery to version 1.7.1
· updated bundled Modernizr to version 2.5.2
· updated bundled Twitter Bootstrap to version 2.0.1
· fixed some bugs