nuBuilder

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nuBuilder
NuBuilder-Logo.png
Developer(s) nuSoftware
Initial release June 10, 2009 (2009-06-10) (09.06.10)[1]
Stable release 4.5 (as nuBuilderForte)  (September 19, 2023; 7 months ago (2023-09-19)) [±]
Preview release None [±]
Written in PHP
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Software development
License(s) GNU General Public License v3.0
Website nuBuilder.net

nuBuilder is a free web-based open-source web application builder.

Product history

nuBuilder started out as a closed-source, proprietary application created by nuSoftware in 2003.[2] The company decided to make the software freely available under the open-source model in 2009, starting a new SourceForge project in June of that year. The first open-source release followed on June 10 as version 09.06.10.[1] This date-based versioning continued until the February 15, 2012 release as version 2.5.0.[3][4]

On February 20, 2014, the developers announced a complete rebuild of nuBuilder as nuBuilder Pro, technically a 3.0 version.[5] The initial nuBuilder code had been put on GitHub on January 5[6], with a few updates arriving afterwards. Unlike its predecessor, nuBuilderPro does not seem to receive versioned updates. Updates appear to be made to the software, but a version number is not incremented. The software can be self-hosted, or nuSoftware can host it for you for a fee.[7]

Features

Features of nuBuilder include[8]:

  • query support
  • data validation
  • user-based security
  • dynamic data display
  • extensibility

Hardware/software requirements

The Windows installer comes packaged with the necessary components to run nuBuilder.

For Linux installations, you'll need:

  • Apache
  • PHP (MySQL extension required)
  • MySQL
  • Postfix (optional)

More information for Linux installations can be found here.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

Entities using nuBuilder

Further reading

External links

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Files: Home / nubuilder". SourceForge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/nubuilder/files/nubuilder/. Retrieved 16 November 2012. 
  2. "Legislative Council - Wednesday 5 March 2008" (PDF). South Australian House of Parliament Legislative Council Hansard. 5 March 2008. p. 2027. http://hansard.parliament.sa.gov.au/docloader/Legislative%20Council/2008_03_05/Daily/Legislative%20Council_C_Daily_DIST_2008_03_05_v19.pdf. Retrieved 16 November 2012. 
  3. "Change Log". nuSoftware. https://www.nubuilder.net/change.php. Retrieved 16 November 2012. 
  4. "Files: Home". SourceForge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/nubuilder/files/. Retrieved 16 November 2012. 
  5. Copley, Steven (20 February 2014). "nuBuilder Pro is Here!". nubuilder.blogspot.com. nuSoftware. http://nubuilder.blogspot.com/2014/02/nubuilder-pro-is-here.html. Retrieved 06 January 2016. 
  6. "nuBuilderPro - Initial commit". GitHub. 4 January 2014. https://github.com/nuSoftware/nuBuilderPro/commit/666407f98d7bebb239ba1de61d2497d2a00edaec. Retrieved 06 January 2016. 
  7. "Hosting Plans". nuSoftware. https://www.nubuilder.net/plans.php. Retrieved 06 January 2016. 
  8. "What is nuBuilder?". nuSoftware. https://www.nubuilder.net/nubuilder.php. Retrieved 16 November 2012.