Hello, I am the creator of eNetwizard Content Management Server, an open source content management system using the LAMP suite. I am getting ready for its first major release and have come across some problems that I need to address first... I'm not really sure where to start this is such a *huge* project...
Some preliminary information about the project can be found here: http://projects.enetwizard.net/cmserver.ehtml http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=12504&group_id=59790 Content is stored as XML in files within a matrix folder. eNetwizard defines several scopes allowing templates and content to be generated on the fly in a scopeable manner. For example, any website at enetwizard.net has the same look and feel because of the domain scope matrix file; I have made this file publicly accessible if you go here: http://www.enetwizard.net/matrix1.php Another scope is the page scope which is where the main content for a page is located, so for the default page at enetwizard.net, it looks like this file: http://www.enetwizard.net/matrix2.php This allows the server to automatically assemble and render content in a variety of formats as you can see here: http://www.enetwizard.net/default.exml (as XML) http://www.enetwizard.net/default.ehtml (as HTML) This is the main idea behind "general content" stored by the server -- there are other ways of doing things that are even more advanced but they will not be discussed here. In order for this to work, I created an xmldoc class that can assemble all of the files together and create the file accordingly. It is then outputted via the server class. Examples of these files are here: http://www.enetwizard.net/xmldoc.php http://www.enetwizard.net/server.php Worth noting, the matrix files can contain PHP code, which is evaluated in the xmldoc class to create an actual XML document. These two classes are in their elementary forms. And they already have more issues than can be tolerated for such an advanced content management system. First of all, I cannot use the & character anywhere because of the fact it is an XML file. This creates a serious problem and must be addressed. Secondly, any errors that exist in a matrix file will effectively break the page. This too is a major issue that muse be addressed, especially since it conflicts with the website wizard (which is responsible for managing existing and new content). I believe there must be a smarter way to do this and I would like any feedback one might have in this arena. I believe using regex's might be a better solution, especially since some unique tags, such as a <WIZARD> tag must replace be replaced by the xmldoc class with the actual content of the wizard it is referencing, same scenario for the <OBJECT> tag (which are customizable web applications), etc. At present this cannot work the way I have it set up. I cannot make a public release until this is fixed stably and fully productive. I am looking for someone who can help me with this XML stuff, and other competent programmers who would like to volunteer for this project. And I'm always interested in those who can translate both the localization files (eNetwizard supports any language) and the main network (enetwizard.net) into other languages. Please contact me if you can help. Thanks! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them. Robert Samuel White eNetwizard Technical Services 284 Walnut Highland, Michigan 48357 +1 (248) 889-6363 www.rswfire.com www.enetwizard.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
