Vikingboard is a PHP-based community board designed by the principle of “less is more”, and features a powerful web-based extension-system, a lighting-fast cache system and dynamic web update.

Small, but incredibly fast and powerful.

Features:

• All the standard posting features found in modern discussion boards (post, reply, quote, multiquote, fast reply etc.)


• Basic moderation abilities (edit, delete)


• A basic search engine (google style)


• A powerful installer with FTP capabilities (converters are not written yet, but are in the works)


• The board performance will be very good, with high stability and extremely high speeds. Currently, the board index page can be loaded by just one (1!) query, making it extremely fast and cheap on server cpu time


• Help pages, guidelines and board rules


• Virtually unlimited forums, categories and posts (up to 99.9 billion)


• User profiles (w/ postcount, location, IM, interests etc.)


• A powerful cache system will ensure the performance mentioned above, and will reduce query time and server load


• Tasks and custom modules are supported


• Runs on MySQL, but other DBMS will be supported and easily installed via modules


• Tranlations will be easy to write


• A somewhat limited Admin CP


• A somewhat limit User CP, with editing of profile fields, avatar and signature


• Powerful BBCode support


• Sending, quoting, replying and tracing of PM’s


• Member lists


• Support for networked forums (multiple login domains), for sharing a forum between different websites in a network


• XHTML-based, W3C-compliant design. XHTML allows for using modules with special demands to the design (ex. Math-modules with MathML)

Changes (version 0.2):

• Rewritten database driver, cache system and session/user handler


• A new, more visually appealing design


• Theme and language selection on a per-user basis


• A custom error handler has been added


• Basic topic moderation options has been added (open/close and sticky/unstick)


• Custom BBCode


• Passwords are now seeded