Habari is another free, opensource blogging platform. Like WordPress, it’s written on PHP and supports by various database system like MySQL, SQLite and PostgreSQL. Current Version is 0.5.2 which was released on October 17, 2008.
Claimed by it community as “next-generation blogging”, Habari require latest version for most of it’s component like Apache 1.3x or higher where v2.x is recommended, MySQL 4.1.x or greater and PHP 5.2 or above.
Here are Habari main features,
- Modular, object-oriented core for easy extensibility.
- Supports multiple database backends (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL).
- Uses prepared statements throughout to protect against SQL injection attacks.
- Media silos to directly access various ways of media storage, like Flickr, Viddler, or the server’s filesystem.
- Atom Publishing Protocol support.
- Multiple users (authors).
- Multiple sites on one installation.
- Support for static content (”pages”).
- Plugins.
- Tagging.
- Importers for Serendipity and WordPress.
For details, can visit Habari Project homepage.
Many have questioned, why should create new blogging platform as we already have great platform like WordPress? There are many answers, but I would like to answer, its freedom. As we are free to form any community and create new opensources software, Habari community have their right to create theirs.
So, can Habari beat WordPress? mmm…that’s another question. Might be not yet at this moment, but later who knows… lets the users answer this.
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