Hi, I am now working on a concept for a webportal software in about 2 and a halv year. As far as I am in the development of the project I was able to write an authoring system with support of unlimited language transla- tions and xml based frontend/screen engine. All html forms and screens are generated via parsed xml frontend tem- plates. The navigation elements are consisting of xml elements too. Alot of things can be done, without the developer has to write html or php code very much. The media asset management system is able to convert images, videos and in near future audio files to any format the player needs to play the video or audio file without use of mplayer-plugin or windows media pla- yer. I wrote a question catalog management system, with which it is very easy to add question catalogs to the content management system, so individual services can be offered to customers, by evaluation of the user given answers to the system. The user management has a very detailed rights management, and the user profiles are consisting of xml profile element templates which are editable, thru the form engine, which is reading the xml profile tem- plates and is displaying them as forms. The screentext management is a nice frontend to the screentext database, in which all frontend screentexts are stored, while the documents of the content management system are entered by a special xml editor i wrote, with wich the webauthor dont has to be able to know any html tags or such things, so write content for the website. In future i want to add the possebility to the editor, that authors are going to be able to add tables, generated by the GD lib, so informations cant just be grabbed by other companys too easy, so informations cant really be stolen. And i want to add a frontend to the JPGraph lib, so the authors will be able to enter values into the documents they are working on, to add diagrams to the document. I nice working template engine has to be written, so the design of the hole page can change by daytime or the time of the year. I added a cronjob management tool, so alot of tasks can be executed timed as needed. If a customer of an couple finder service want to get out of his contract, it can be done automatically to the end of the month, without the site administrators have to do anything about it. The Online shopping module should consist of a kind of neural network to find out, what kind of products is fitting best to a customer with specific account values based on the question catalog management tool. Later I want to add an tracking system, a product managment system, and marketing management tool, a statistics tool and many other things. The hole system is build up modular and is based on php5. No other programmer did ever take a look at this system, so I dont really now, if my design is well, or if my php code is just wellformed. I'm went to work alone, because i did so in the last 8 years. My question is now, as this concept and the authoring system itself is not opensource at the moment. If somepeople would like to take a look at it, and maybe discuss with me, wheather to make it opensource, or letting it stay as a commercial project. My only goal is, to set up the webportals I have written concepts for in the last couple of years. But the project is now comming into a size where its nearly impossible to start anything new, because there still are alot of holes in the modules. And my pressure is growing abit. All i can say, that is is possible to set up a content management based website including webdesign and all other things can be done with the authoring system in about 4 - 6 days, instead of one or two month, it would take to write something like that on your own if you dont use all of the modules the authoring system is consisting of at the moment. I'm not the best programmer, but I'm good in software design and concep- tion. So it would be really nice, to have some people around, who can take care abit about the quality of the project. And maybe make use of it, like i want too. So best regards, and lets make it happen :))) Sascha Braun -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
