Zikula

Infobox_Software
name = Zikula



caption = Zikula's logo.
developer = Zikula Development Team
latest_release_version = Zikula 1.0.2
latest_release_date = release date|2008|08|10
latest_preview_version =
latest_preview_date =
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = Content Management System and Web Application Framework
license = GNU General Public License
website = [http://zikula.org/ zikula.org]

Zikula is a free open source Web Application Framework released under the GNU General Public License. It can be used to develop robust, secure, interactive and editable websites and web based applications. Zikula is written in PHP object oriented and fully modular. It requires a database and may use all leading database platforms like MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server.

Features

* Templating engine for easy theming
* Powerful API
*RSS feeds,
*Forums
*Polls,
*Language internationalization
*Galleries
*Chat
*E-Commerce
* Games, Reviews, Links... with many third parties add-ons.

Development

Zikula follows an active development cycle aiming at frequent releases. Project milestones and roadmap can be seen at the Zikula Code * [http://code.zikula.org/core/roadmap Roadmap] There are also many 3rd party developers who build extensions for the Zikula Application Framework which are often developed and hosted at the Zikula Code website. Extensions perform tasks like blogging; storing and displaying images, music; forums; shopping carts etc.

Community

Zikula has many active communities around the world with many official and unofficial sites around the world. As of July 2008 for example, the Zikula community forums contained over 231,421 messages.Fact|date=October 2008

See also

*List of content management systems

External links

* [http://zikula.org/ Official website]
* [http://community.zikula.org/ Official international community site]
* [http://code.zikula.org/ Zikula developer utilities]
* [http://www.zikula.fr/ Official French speaking community site]
* [http://zikula.es/ Official Spanish speaking community site]
* [http://zikula.it/ Official Italian speaking community site]
* [http://zikula.de/ Official German speaking community site]
* [http://www.ifs-net.de/ iFS-net] Some community modules for zikula