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Credit where credit is due, AAUK.org is built using Open Source components:
> Joomla! CMS. Joomla! is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.
> PHP. The world's pmost popular scripting language, PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. We also make use of PHP framework software:
> PEAR is an open source framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components.
> Smarty is an excellent open source template engine for PHP. It converts the templates into native php scripts upon the first execution.
> MySQL. The MySQL database server is the world's most popular open source database. Over five million installations use MySQL to power high-volume Web sites and other critical business systems, including industry-leaders like The Associated Press, Google, NASA, Sabre Holdings and Suzuki.
> SMF. Elegant, powerful, easy, and free. Simple Machines Forum is all of the above. SMF is the next-generation community forum software package that is jam-packed with features, while at the same time having a minimal impact on resources.
> ExtCalendar is a powerful multi-user web-based calendar application. Features include Multi-Languages, Themes, Recurrent Events, Categories, Users and Groups management, Environment and General Settings, Template Configuration, Product Updates.
> Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as image library with a MySQL backend.
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