BookStack
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Screenshot  A page of BookStack | |
| Original author(s) | Dan Brown |
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| Developer(s) | Dan Brown |
| Initial release | 12 July 2015 |
| Stable release | 24.10[1] 
/ 2024-10-09; 23 days ago |
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| Written in | PHP |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Available in | 43[2]languages |
| Type | Wiki software |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | www |
BookStackis afree and open-sourcewiki softwareaimed for a simple, self-hosted, and easy-to-use platform. Based onLaravel,aPHPframework, BookStack is released under theMIT License.It uses the ideas of books to organise pages and store information.[3]BookStack ismultilingualand available in over thirty languages.[2]
History
[edit]BookStack’s first commit was published on 12 July 2015 by Dan Brown, anEnglishweb developer.[4]Originally named ‘Oxbow’, the project was renamed to BookStack after only 11 days. The initial proper layout was inspired byDokuWiki,and in October of the same year, the current layout of BookStack was settled.[5]The overall design was significantly optimised with the release of v0.26 on 6 May 2019, especially on the mobile experience.[6]
After over five years of development by Brown and the community members, it ended the beta stage with the release of v21.04 on 9 April 2021.[7]BookStack has become the most popular wiki software written in PHP onGitHub,as of June 2021.[8]
Features
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Installation and configuration
[edit]PHP,MySQLorMariaDB,Git(for updates), andComposerare required for the installation of BookStack.[9]It also can be installed via aDockercontainer.[10]The name, logo and registration options can be changed, and whether the whole system is publicly viewable or not can be also changed.[11]
Content levels
[edit]BookStack, as the name suggests, is based of the ideas of a normal stack of books. The categorisation of BookStack is limited to four levels— shelves, books, chapters, and pages. Books and pages are required for storing contents, while chapters are optional for better organisation of pages. Shelves can contain multiple books, and a single book could be placed on multiple shelves.[3]
Organisation
[edit]On a BookStack website, chapters and pages can be sorted within a book. A chapter can be moved to another book, and a page can be moved to either another book or another chapter.[12]Page revisions and image management are available, as well as a full role and permission system that allows to lock down contents and actions.[11]
Editing and searching
[edit]BookStack providesWYSIWYGandMarkdowneditors, and the Markdown editor also provides a live preview. Books, chapters and pages are fully searchable, and it is available to link directly to any paragraph.[11]
Integrated authentication
[edit]The email/password login social providers such as GitHub,Google,Slack,AzureADand more can be used.OktaandLDAPoptions are available for enterprise environments.[11]
Extensibility
[edit]BookStack does not have a traditional "Plugin" system, but it does offer a few methods of extension. BookStack's customization settings provide an input to add custom HTML content to the head of the page, which can then utilize "Editor Events" to customize the page editors. ARESTAPI is built-in, coveringCRUDactions for the core content types within BookStack. A "Visual Theme System" can be used to customize views, translation text and icons within the platform. A "Logical Theme System" allows back-end PHP-based logical customization without needing to alter core application files.[13]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^"Release 24.10".9 October 2024.Retrieved21 October2024.
- ^ab"BookStack/resources/lang/".GitHub.BookStack.Retrieved1 December2022.
- ^ab"Content Overview".BookStack. 23 September 2018.Retrieved9 June2021.
- ^Brown, Dan (28 July 2020)."Five Years of BookStack".BookStack.Retrieved9 June2021.
- ^Brown, Dan (11 July 2016)."A Year of BookStack".BookStack.Retrieved9 June2021.
- ^Brown, Dan (6 May 2019)."Beta Release v0.26.0".BookStack.Retrieved9 June2021.
- ^Brown, Dan (9 April 2021)."BookStack Release v21.04".BookStack.Retrieved9 June2021.
- ^"wiki".GitHub.Retrieved9 June2021.
- ^"Installation · BookStack".BookStack.1 January 2017.Retrieved11 March2023.
- ^"Installation".BookStack. January 2017.Retrieved28 June2022.
- ^abcd"Features".BookStack.Retrieved9 June2021.
- ^"Organising Content".BookStack. January 2017.Retrieved9 June2021.
- ^"Hacking BookStack".BookStack. 2 February 2020.Retrieved28 June2022.
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