Hello David,
remember that the deadline for submitting projects is monday.
best regards
marcus
Saturday, March 24, 2007, 7:22:14 PM, you wrote:
> Hello php.internals,
> I saw the Summer of Code article on php.net and am contacting this group
> to hopefully gain the interest of possible mentors for an open source
> project that has been rolling around the back of my mind.
> The idea I am proposing I call HyperWiki since it is a hypertext
> distribution system, built with PHP5. It is based off the idea of
> Hyperbases (I couldn't find something outside of an assignment
> specification for a software architecture course to reference it with)
> and structureless content management systems (the "wiki" part).
> The project's goal is to provide a system that:
> 1. Provides a minimal CMS (called a "gateway") where structure (what/how
> content is stored, user permissions, etc.) can be declared by the
> administrator who may not even know PHP. Administrators can find
> controllers from either this project or third-part to provide the
> gateway's functionality. Only XHTML with elements and data relevant to
> request, i.e. no design, header, sideblocks or footer will be transmitted.
> Note: except when XSL is not supported by the client
> 2. When a user makes a search request, the gateway provides the search
> results as well as a list of other linked systems that the user can
> search concurrently. Or, at least, the gateway can search linked systems
> and return aggregated results.
> Users can add/edit/delete entries on systems beside the one they use as
> a "gateway", and regardless of whichever system the user gets the
> results from, the "gateway" provides the presentation logic (XSL), so
> the user should not even be aware of the idea of "gateways" and linked
> systems.
> An example of the data-only XHTML in my proposal is demonstrated at my
> website: http://www.forizon.com where pages are transmitted without any
> extraneous presentation elements, but they link to a XSLT file that
> provide all the presentation logic. I have implemented parts of the
> gateway software, and I hope to finish it and have some means to
> seamlessly connect the gateways.
> Hopefully, this is the right mentoring organization to apply to.
> Although it doesn't add to the PHP project itself, except to be a test
> case itself for PHP5 and possibly PHP6.
> I should end the email here, but I'll provide a schedule, progress
> indicators, bio, etc in the Google SoC application.
> Regards,
> David Duong
> btw - I have sent an email earlier to internals@php.net, but apparently
> that is not the right address so I apologize if this is a duplicate message.
Best regards,
Marcus