Banshee

Banshee is a PHP website framework, which aims at to be secure and easy to use.

Banshee uses the Model-View-Control pattern (XSLT for the views) and is designed to use MySQL as the database.

License

Banshee is free. If you use (parts of) the Banshee framework to build a website, you must place a link on that website to http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/banshee. I leave it up to you to place this link on an acceptable location on that website.

You are not allowed to use Banshee to create a website which you sell or rent to other people or organisations.

What is new in this release:

• Support for login via client SSL certificate.
• Improved support for mobile devices.
• Improved support for API requests.
• API test module added.
• Improved menu administration and menu library.
• Converted smilies, BBcodes and spam detection helpers to library and improved BBcode rewriting.
• Converted CSV helper to CSV library.
• CKEditor updated to 4.1.
• jQuery updated to 1.9.1, jQuery UI updated to 1.10.2.
• Added DataTables jQuery plugin.
• Directory helpers moved to libraries.
• Account activity overview added to profile module.
• Replaced Slimbox2 with prettyPhoto.
• Renamed subdirectories includes and system to banshee.
• Renamed post_data library to validator.
• Renamed onload_javascript() to run_javascript().
• Removed MySQL driver, use MySQLi instead.
• Removed php.js.
• Small improvements.

What is new in version 3.4:

• Slimstat better integrated in Banshee.
• Improved remove_module script.
• Improved security for password storage.
• Improved e-mail library.
• Notification e-mails for account creation or change.
• OpenStreetMap static map library added.
• Sitemap.xml module added.
• Updated FPDF to 1.7.
• Small improvements.
• Bugfix: SSO was broken due to code changes at other places.
• Bugfix: old way of object calling in poll, newsletter and switch administration page.

What is new in version 3.2:

• This version comes with ready-to-use themes in a separate theme package.
• Other changes are small improvements and a bugfix.

What is new in version 3.0:

• License changed. See LICENSE for the current version.
• Single Sign-On functionality added.
• Website errors included in view.
• System message functionality added.
• Improved JSON output.
• CKEditor updated to version 3.5.
• Small improvements and bugfixes.

What is new in version 2.5:

• CKEditor updated to version 3.4.1.
• Sections added to cache library.
• Replaced Google Analytics with SlimStat.
• Small bugfixes.

What is new in version 2.1:

• Using OO for controllers and models.
• AJAX integrated in public/index.php.
• Changes in login / logout page behaviour.
• Pagination added to news page.
• XSLT template 'result' moved to 'includes/functions.xslt'.
• Depricated function eregi() replaced by preg_match().
• Small bugfixes.

What is new in version 1.6:

• Remote Monitoring support. MonitorServer, MonitorRequests and MonitorStatsInterval options added.
• IPv6 support for Windows version, due to IPv6 support in Cygwin 1.7.
• XSLT support turned on by default.
• All directory listings are done via XSLT. The internal index layout has been removed. IndexStyle option removed.
• ServerRoot option has been made available via configure parameter.
• Small improvements.

Requirements:

• PHP