Author: pulse

I just stumbled upon phpWebThings, almost looks like a phpNuke sister…, looks very nicely done, with all the nitty-gritty stuff you need from a good CMS, themable, modular … If maybe I’ve got more time one day, I’ll look deeper into this one …. Here is a description from there site:

phpWebThings is a Powerful, professional application framework for intermediate to advanced PHP programmer, open source Web Portal, Online Community System, Content Managenent System (CMS) or whatever you want to call it. The goal of phpWebThings is to have an automated web site that is easy for the webmaster to manipulate while still being secure and functional. Each user can submit comments to discuss Articles, News, Downloads similar to many other systems. The main features include: All Modular design, Web Based Admin, User Login, News System, User Messages, Downloads, FAQs, Contact Area, Links, User and Authors edit, an Integrated Banner Ad system, Internal Search Engine, Support for 20 languages, Comments option in Polls, lot of themes, File Manager, Download Manager, FAQ Manager, Categorized Articles and many, many more friendly functions.

Hi guys

A while back I created an Open Source project called dbHistoric which intends to be a monitoring and statistics tool for database.

I will capture the status of database systems at certain times of the days(given intervals) and then one can draw reports on them.

Currently I’m looking for guys that can help me with the design and implementation of some documentation and requirements.

I am also very busy lately so all hands are welcome.

The technologies that I’ve decided on are Java(for backend engine) and PHP/gdLibrary for reporting, but I”m open to suggestions.

Please have a look at my project on SourceForge.net .

Hi guys, something totally off-topic.

Took this photo near Pilgrims Rest in Mpumalanga(i think) in South Africa.

Just so cool … hehe

Today I started on a private project with one of my friends, where we are looking at creating a fitness and healthstyle website, and this time around I wanted to design a very robust, hack-safe website which will keep you going for a few years.

I’ve evaluated some of the FREE templating system available under the gnu licenses and found two in particular very interesting, namely:

1. patTemplate
2. Smarty

SO of course I did and went some reading about the different systems, and found an excellent tutorial/blog-entry that Havard Lindset wrote about patTemplate on DevArticles.com .

At the end of the day I selected Smarty, why I really don’t know, maybe because I got it to work the fastest and am now running a multi-theme, multi-language web interface with this engine.

Now just waiting for our first advertisers … mmm

Other interesting reads:

Zend and Templates
Template Engines