WoltLab® Community Framework™
… is a free web-framework, designed and developed for complex community applications. The framework uses the latest and modern technologies, is completly object-oriented structured, is constantly enhanced and is the base for all WoltLab products.
Open Source
The framework is licensed unter the terms of LGPL and is business friendly licensed. Applications based on WCF may be used and distributed under commercial purposes.
Modular and Extensible
Our package system is the core feature and the base for Community Framework. Each package consists of encapsulated functions which can be included at any time. This system drastically reduces development effort for community applications, since the framework provides solutions for almost every use case.
Active Community
An active developer community created a wide variety of extensions and applications based upon WCF. Countless base packages are available for download on our Community platform (Plugin-Store) - for free. Get in touch with the Plugin-Store and present your application to the masses. Do you have any suggestions and wishes concering marketing innovations? Feel free to contact us.
Vendor Support
Community Framework is the product of longstanding development by WoltLab. Our more than nine-years-old experience with development of community applications are part of it. It's in our interest to improve and enhance this framework in the future - it strenghten our own WCF-based products. In addition to community support you may choose to utilize our ticket support and contact our developers directly.
Ready for Take-off
You can start using our framework in no time, all you need is a webserver which supports PHP 5 in its default configuration. We provide a technical documentation in our documentation area, explaining all core components on the basis of accurate examples. Many completed extensions distributed in our Community are good examples and of course they are also Open Source.
