About Barbershop

Barbershop is NOT available to the general public yet. When it's ready, you might be able to download it here.

Barbershop is a user-focused web forum application.

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Barbershop is written in PHP.

Barbershop is brought to you by iMarc.

Barbershop is not a stand-alone forum. It is meant to be integrated with an existing database of users.

Typical forum applications manage users and user registration as well as the normal forum duties of posting, replying, and searching. Barbershop does not attempt to manage users or registration. Instead, Barbershop must be used with an external data source of users.

Barbershop comes with a simple PHP class file where the developer writes code to link Barbershop to his or her existing user database. This external database of users can be anything from a MySQL database to an Oracle database to a CSV text file to an XML-RPC web service. Since, the developer customizes four simple PHP methods, there is no imposed limitation on what Barbershop can use to manage users.