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Questions
1. What is GPB?1. Why does GPB exists?
2. How does it work?
3. Which license is used?
4. What are the requirements?
6. Where can I find technical information?
1. What is GPB?
GPB is forumsoftware like UBB, VBB,
phpBB, Phorum, etc...In other words it's a online discussion board where users can place topics and other users can reply on those topics.
2. Why does GPB exists?
The development of GPB starten when several members of The dutch linux forum
began complaining about UBB, the forum which we used. They found it slow and overdone. There were two options:
take an other board or develop one. There were no other suitable boards (to overdone, to expensive, not runable, to simple, not flexible enough, etc...),
so we decided to develop one. It had to be fast, open source, written in PHP and be very flexible.
3. How does it work?
GPB works quite simple. We have a backend which handles everything, which is non interface related.
And frontends, which generates nice interfaces (aka themes). The backend handles the cookies,
handles emails, handles all the forum data and offer a lot of other functions which makes theme development
a lot faster. The handling of data os very flexible. GPB supports plugable database backends.
Currently only MySQL is supported, but in theory every datasource supported by PHP can be supported by GPB,
just write a new backend.
4. Which license is used?
The GNU General Public Licence aka GPL. This means that the board is 100% free.
You can do with it what you like, as long as you distribute your source for free.
More information about the GPL, can be found at the GNU website.
5. What are the requirements?
You need the following software to run GPB:
- OS: doesn't matter which one, but Linux or BSD is recommended of course.
- Webserver: you need Apache or an other server which supports PHP.
- PHP: PHP version 4 or later
- Database: any database supported by GPB (currently MySQL).
6. Where can I find technical information
We have a API reference available.
It lists and subscribes all the functions in the GPB API.
There's also a theme development guide.