MercuryBoard

MercuryBoard is a powerful message board system dedicated to raw speed with a mixture of features, ease of use, and ease of customization coupled with expandability, and diverse language services. Now just over two years in the making, version 1.0.0 is an immensely stable, thoroughly tested, and well-written piece of internet software ready for any webserver, running on PHP versions as low as 4.0.0 and MySql versions as low as 3.22.

The board was founded as a development project aimed at experimenting with the limitations and uses of the PHP language by Jason Warner and Mark Elliot. Over the past two years it has undergone, minimally, three major rewrites, numerous full database restructures, and several changes. The last year of development is clearly visible in an online CVS repository, and the software has been, and remains to be for all future development, open source, and free for you to use.

The success of the board speed wise comes from constant optimization of code. The base structure of the application has been in place for almost six months now and has remained relatively unchanged. Several modules plug-in to the software, making it both extensible, and easy to figure out. The limits of PHP's OOP protocols has been tested with our software, and an even mixture of both Jason's and Mark's code-theory has been authored into the methodology of how the software works. Admittedly, the software is not OOP in the 'true' sense of the theory, but uses several advantages of objects to facilitate an easy modified working base model. The board is easy to modify, as shown by several users even in the Beta stages of the product.


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