tBoard - a Python Powered Bulletin-Board Clone

Go to Project page at SourceForge
Last update: 2005-10-11 14:00 GMT (finally?)

Current Status

Basic functionality such as registering, forum moderating, posting are finished; Preliminary version with English / Traditional Chinese language file can be downloaded from Project Filelist.
If you have any ideas or suggestions, please mail me: tiberiusteng at msn dot com
I'll set up a tBoard to handle these kind of feedbacks when a usable version is finished, also as a demo of course! (grin)

Current Development Screenshots

Unfortunately, it's still in Traditional Chinese ...

Forum Index
Preferences
Registered User List
Registered User Detail
UserGroup List
UserGroup Detail

Current status:

• Working parts (need further tweaking):
  User Registering (with Email Check), Registered User Info (List and Detail), User Control Panel, Login / Logout, Member Groups (List, Detail and Management) and Global Premission Check, Category and Forum Management, Posting, Generic System Administration, Private Messaging.
  
• What's ongoing:
  I'm currently working on a CGI version so that I can run a version on SourceForge project website. After this I'm going to revise its entire structure, further split database part into a 3-tier structure, and tweak template/translation system.
  
• I'm looking for people who wants to participate with me to maintain tBoard, if you're interested please contact me with Email.

Development Environment

• Cheetah - Python-powered template engine and code generator
• MySQL - an powerful open source database
• MySQLdb - MySQL module for Python
• Python - a Dynamic, Object-Oriented scripting language

Design Goals (In short: a phpBB clone with various power-ups)

• Unicode (UTF-8) as native file codepage
  (including all scripts, templates and translated messages)
• Generates complete validated XHTML Transitional document.
  Standard-conforming XHTML pages that work with any browser. (Visual optimized for Mozilla 1.2 and later ;)
• Flexible 'Templates' and 'Translated Messages' support via Cheetah Engine
  (a.k.a. language file)
  
• Group based permission check system
  (assign user to a group, then assign groups to special roles or permissions like board manager, system manager, etc)
• Inplace administration tools
  (that means, not using separate admin pages but use admin toolbars)
• Phone/PDA Access (a.k.a. support for light browsers)
  View, post, read & reply to private messages with your cellphone or web-enabled PDA.
• Simple Email Access Designed to support Email-enabled handsets (like PHS, GPRS, i-Mode) to read subscribed forum / topic, write new posts and private messages on the go.

About Author

Tiberius Teng (a.k.a. SBT), a university student grown and living in Taiwan.

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