While
building the Gyanee Professional Network (www.gyanee.com)
application, we needed to integrate a bulletin board system (BBS).
We found an excellent application phpBB (www.phpbb.com)
for this purpose. However, it did not satisfy our requirements.
Hence, we added a web API to phpBB application. This API has the
following functionality:
- add user
- update user profile
- login
- create forums
- post messages
Since this is a web API (uses POST messages), the client
application can be absolutely independent of PHPBB application.
Moreover, the client application could be written in any language
(in fact my gyanee application is in C#). I think this API will be
extremely useful to lots of developers. The web API is written in
PHP itself, but sits in a separate folder within PHPBB directory
structure. It does not modify *any* of the PHPBB code. |
