INTRODUCTION eNetwizard is a cutting-edge web application server and content management system. It includes an advanced runtime engine capable of rendering and managing an unlimited number of websites across an unlimited number of domains (referred to as the matrix), all from a central web space environment. eNetwizard is platform independent and runs on both public and private networks, making it suitable for Internet, Intranet, and Extranet solutions. Indeed, by its very design, eNetwizard can run all three of them (in unlimited numbers) with a single running copy of the distribution. eNetwizard is ideal for the individual to the largest of enterprises, as well as for internet service providers who wish to offer truly unique web hosting and web design services.
FEATURES eNetwizard was designed with five main concepts in mind: security, flexibility, configurability, efficiency, and expandability. eNetwizard includes its own API and registry that allow programmers to interact with the system; the API is expanded using an included components library, which can be easily added to; this allows programmers to expand the capabilities of eNetwizard without interfering with the core API. eNetwizard includes modules (as part of the core class library) for advanced session management, complete error handling, thorough user authentication, and the following of precise security protocols. Nothing gets past eNetwizard. An example of one of the components is an entire suite of logging functions which are so comprehensive it can even log attempts at treachery! And, if you want it to, block the user immediately. eNetwizard includes a full set of wizards (which are automatically available to all of the websites in the matrix.) An example of one of the wizards is the Sign Up Wizard, which allows a user to sign up for membership to the matrix; users have the ability to indicate which websites in the matrix may have access to their personal information, and what information they may have access to; if a website needs this information to offer a customized service and the user has not yet given the website permission, eNetwizard will prompt the user and ask if it is okay. This is just one of the many wizards available as part of the standard distribution. eNetwizard itself is fully-customizable, as is all of the content that it is responsible for rendering. Individual websites (and even groups of websites) can be owned by different individuals, unlimited in number of course, giving each of them access to their own Website Wizard. The main administrator makes use of the Matrix Wizard to govern eNetwizard. eNetwizard also contains a full set of plug-in applications (referred to as objects) which add to the functionality of individual websites; a simple object would be a newsletter or web directory; once an object is added to a web matrix, it runs flawlessly, even in the style and colors that have already been chosen as the theme of the website. These are just a few of the many wonderful things that eNetwizard can do! SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS eNetwizard is primarily written in PHP and uses MySQL as its backend database server. In the future, eNetwizard will provide support for other databases as well. eNetwizard runs best on Apache, regardless of platform, and makes use of the mod_rewrite module to force Apache to serve all requests through the eNetwizard Runtime Engine; it's a very simple setup. It may be possible to use eNetwizard with other web servers, such as IIS, if the web server contains a similar method to mod_rewrite. So in essence, eNetwizard is designed to work on most standard web server configurations. Future projects that will complement eNetwizard will be written in Perl and Java as well. eNetwizard licensing is based on the Open Source Artistic License. BACKGROUND INFORMATION I began eNetwizard as an independent project at the age of twenty-one as a way to simplify my role as a web programmer and as a workaround to the limitations I found myself facing on a shared hosting server. eNetwizard began its life at Swift eNetwork <http://www.swifte.net/default.html>, presently offline. Over the course of four years, I would develop it to a certain point when suddenly I would have a revelation about how to substantially improve the product; several times, five or six so far, I have completely scrapped the code and completely started it all over again! I wanted it to be perfect before I ever considered releasing it to the public. Now, at the age of twenty-five, over four years later, eNetwizard has finally begun to live up to the grand vision in my mind that it was always meant to become. It has become a stable solution that I honestly believe will become an invaluable resource to the web programming community. The latest version of eNetwizard is used on several different systems already, Windows and Linux, including internally by one of the largest cable companies in America. CALL FOR HELP I will be releasing the first Alpha release of eNetwizard within the next few weeks. eNetwizard still has a long way to go before it meets its full potential. I am currently actively seeking competent volunteer programmers who would like to contribute to this project. Those programmers whom I select to work on this project side-by-side with me will receive substantial recognition for their efforts. If you are interested, please contact me with detailed information about your skills and the projects that you have been involved in. If you are an active SourceForge user, even better! I need assistance with many of the different sub projects as well as individuals who can translate English into other languages; I would like to make eNetwizard portable to as many languages as possible. If you have experience in documentation or other areas of project development, I would love to hear from you as well. Some of the things that need to be done are simple, while others are quite complex. For instance, eNetwizard needs a multifaceted parser for dealing with dynamic content. There are many, many different things that need to be done. For those of you who are curious about just trying out the software, it will be available for download very soon; the core of eNetwizard is pretty much a complete project, now it's just time for expanding it. For information about its release, you can sign up for the mailing list by following the links below. I look forward to hearing from you! Robert Samuel White [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] eNetwizard Open Source Project Website: http://enetwizard.sourceforge.net eNetwizard Project Information: http://sourceforge.net/projects/enetwizard/ eNetwizard General Mailing List: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enetwizard-general eNetwizard Developers Mailing List: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enetwizard-developers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
