Dove Forums is a brand new Bulletin Board software build from scratch on top of the Codeigniter & Twitter Bootstrap frameworks.

After nearly 3 years away from development due to work and home life, I have decided to give this project another go, this time making it Open Source to allow the community to also work on it.

The project goal is a simple one. To make Bulletin Board software that is easy to use, install and customize and best of all Free!. I am also trying to keep as much as I can native to CI without having too many external libraries cluttering up the code. The following external libraries are going to be used as a starting point:

• Ben Edmunds - Ion Auth
• Eric Barnes - Slug & Settings
• Kyle Noland - MessageCI
• Ryan Marshal - Gravatar
• schnawel007 - bootstrap3-wysiwyg

Thank you to all mentioned above for the great work on these libraries.

This project now has a built in installer. Simply download this repo, place in your localhost / webhost and run :-

http://www.yoursite.com

You will automatically be taken to the installer.

You can view the demo over at http://www.doveforums.com/beta/

This project is also been built on top of the latest Codeigniter & Twitter Bootstrap builds.

If you would like to contribute to this project that would be great as I really would like to get this project back on track after so much time away from the community.

Version 0.5.0 adds Email Notifications. I have only tested with with SMTP emails up to now. I personally recommend SendGrid as your SMTP host if you are unsure how to go about setting this up yourself.

Sign up for a Free account, then log into your Dove Forums install with your administrator account, go to Dashboard->Settings and then enter the following information into the Email section :-

• Protocol - smtp
• Smtp Host - smtp.sendgrid.net
• Smtp User - sendgridusername
• Smtp Pass - sendgridpassword
• Smtp Port - 587

After this information is entered click 'Update Settings' and that's it!

Regards Chris

Frontend :-

• User Profile Function
• User Settings Function
• User Change Password Function - Commit #65
• User Forgot Password Function - Commit #65
• Send PM Function
• Thumbs Up Function
• Delete Discussion Function - Commit #56
• Edit Discussion Function - Commit #61
• Report Discussion Function - Commit #63
• Delete Comments Function - Commit #61
• Edit Comment Function - Commit #61
• Report Comment Function - Commit #63

Backend :-

• All Discussions Function
• All Groups Function - Commit #83
• Add Group Function - Commit #83
• Edit Group Function - Commit #83
• Delete Group Function - Commit #83
• Settings Function
• View User Function
• View Category Function
• View Group Function

Other :-

• Installation Function - Commit #70