phpGUI

1.00 March 19, 2006 This is Version 1.0: After more than one year of practical experience with phpGUI I decided to make it now the 'Final Version', 1.0 (of course that doesn't mean that the program wouldn't change any more in the future). It simply means that the program now has a reasonable degree of features and maturity (and reasonable small number of bugs ... ). There have been added still these changes: 1. Function 'Delete' for php-functions: Up to now this feature had a bug in a sense that the function to be deleted didn't disappear at all, unless you saved the total file immediately after the deletion. This has now been fixed. 2. Function 'Rename' for php-function: This function is new. From the context-menu over the php-function-listbox you can now select 'Rename' the php-funtion. When changing the name of the function all references to that function in other parts of the php-program are altered accordingly. 4. Bugfixes: An error was fixed concerning the case when multiple php-sources (with multiple functions each) have been opened at the same time. 5. New Application: IMaGen A completly new application, called IMaGen (Internet Magazine Generator) is now part of the phpGUI-system. It is a sort of a content management system (CMS), but not as universal like most CMSs, instead it is taylored specially to the purpose of publishing an online-magazine. These types of web-publication are defined as (1) having one basic structure (called the layout) and (2) articles within that structure which change periodically (daily, weekly, monthly or whenvever the editor regards it neccessary). At the moment IMaGen is in a very early (immature) state. It performs some basic functions but others are still under development. Unfortunately there is almost no documentation available by now. You may try it out and test it by using your intuition and the right mouse button for context menus. IMagen consist of two parts: (1) The Layout-Painter and (2) the Article-Desk. Both functions have no direct influence on the phpGUI-features, indeed I had thought about making them a separate application. I dismissed this idea mainly because there yet ARE some common elements in both phpGUI and IMaGen: (1) the site-definition and (2) internal program resources (such as upload-logic). Consequently, you start the IMaGen-modules directly from the phpGUI-menubar: The Layout-Painter may suggest that it be a graphics-program, but no, it isn't. It is a graphical (GUI-based) application where you define the structure of your magazine, expressed in 'rubrics' on (up to) three levels: Chapters, Sections, Subsesctions. The Article-Desk is the place, where you write articles, give them headlines, define common typographical attributes to them and upload them to your remote site. All IMaGen-ressources, i.e. the layout and the articles are stored in a MySQL-database which you must create on your remote site. The 'create table'-scripts are supplied by the phpGUI-installation package. Of course you will have to supply your own entries in the config.db-file for your database-login-parameters.