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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GSoC idea proposal for a new PHP project
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

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