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Carbon-Forum

A high performance open-source forum software written in PHP.

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Demo/Official Website

Requirements

PHP version 5.4.0 or higher.
The PDO_MYSQL PHP Package.
MySQL version 5.0 or higher.
The mod_rewrite Apache module / ngx_http_rewrite_module / ISAPI_Rewrite IIS module / IIS7+.
The mod_headers module is needed if you run Carbon Forum on Apache HTTP Server.

Install

Ensure that the entire directory are writable.
Open http://www.yourdomain.com/install and install.
Open the Forum, and register. The first registered user will become administrator.

Upgrade

Backup files( /upload/* ) and databases.
Delete all files except /upload/*, and upload the new version files that extract from the the latest version packet.
Ensure that the entire directory are writable.
Open http://www.yourdomain.com/update and update.

Features

Mobile version.
Real-time notifications push.
Discussions Tags based with Quora/StackOverflow style.
High FE&BE performance.
Full asynchronous design, improve the loading speed.
Excellent search engine optimization (mobile adaptation Sitemap support) .
Perfect draft saving mechanism.
The modern Notification Center (currently supported and @ replies).

Donate for Carbon Forum

Donation list
Alipay:

Alipay

Wechat:

Wechat

Paypal:

https://www.paypal.me/lincanbin

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License

Copyright 2006-2017 Canbin Lin (lincanbin@hotmail.com)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.