[Release] B-net Software

The Architect Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 508 Location: UK

Hi,

I have released B-net Software Version 1.0, hosted at Sourceforge - http://sourceforge.net/projects/b-net and listed at Freshmeat - http://freshmeat.net/projects/b-net/.

This is a Personal Content Management which I initialy proposed for development back in August 2003 (2 yers ago!!) Hmmm...

The Feature Set is as follows

News Publishing

- Password protected admin interface for adding news articles, with clickable smilies. Editing and Deleting of articles can also be done through the admin interface.

- Summary view of the news articles in the front page and articles archive, article can be viewed in full by clicking on "Read More.." link

Guestbook

- Paged view of the Guestbook entries.

- Clickable smilies, web and email entrance for the Guestbook entries.

- Bad Words censorship for all Guestbook entries.

ShoutBox

- Clickable smilies and web entrance for the Shouts.

- Bad Words censorship for all Shouts.

Image Gallery

- Images can be uploaded in the admin panel, png, gif, jpg, bmp file images are supported (provided you have GD2 libraries in your PHP installation, PHP version > 3.x)

- Thumbnails are generated for view in the gallery page, an image can be viewed in full by clicking on the corresponding thumbnail.

Polls / Opinions

- Admin interface for adding, editing and deleting polls

- Users can vote on the current poll as well as view current results of the poll and an archive of polls.

Translations

- The release includes two languages English and Swahili, see the corresponding files in "/language/" directory.

- Other languages can be added simply by translating "/language/english.php" into the corresponging language and save it as "/language/language_name.php"

Theme/Templating

- I have implemented a templating system using Smarty templates, therefore main code is seperated from the templates. The release includes the "Default" theme located in "/templates/default/".

- To develop a new Theme for this software simply take the files in the "/templates/default/" folder, make corresponding changes and save to a folder "/templates/theme_name/"

The project Home Page is located here

http://www.bongoland.net/projects/b-net/index.php

You can preview a demo of the software there as well since the project home page itself is running the software.

To download packages, go to the project's file release section at Sourceforge.net

Note
This software is released in a "Beta" stage, i.e I expect it to have some minor bugs. I would deeply appreciate people downloading and testing this software and reporting their experiences and problems in this forum.

Below is the attached "README.txt" that is included in the release package.

Quote:

/***************************************************************************
* B-net Software
* -------------------
* begin : September 2005
* copyright : (C) 2005 Haddad Said
* email : haddad.said@gmail.com
*
*
*
*
***************************************************************************/

/***************************************************************************
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
***************************************************************************/

B-net Software
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This is a personal content management system software which you can use to run your
very own personal website.It is built on PHP and MySQL. So you need to have PHP of at
least version 4.3 upwards and a MySQL (Version > 3.2.x) database for this application to work.
Also to make use of the Photo Gallery thumbnail generation features you need to have the GD2
library modules enabled in your installation of PHP.

Features:
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* News Publishing

* Polls / Opinions

* Guest Book

* ShoutBox

* Image Gallery

* Admin interface for managing smilies (used in shoutbox, guestbook etc)

* Admin interface for managing Bad Word List

* Templating system.

* Multi Language support. This will allow translation of the CMS to multiple languages, Kiswahili being one of them of course.

To Do:
------

* Banning users by IP addresses.

For Developers:

This Software is registered at Sourceforge, https://sourceforge.net/projects/b-net/
To join in as a contributing developer, register at sourceforge.net and request to join
the project.

CVS of the project files can be viewed from here:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/b-net

This application is released under the GPL license.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

Requirements:
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* PHP > version 4.3

* MySQL Database > version 3.2

* Web Server (e.g. Apache, IIS)

How To Install:
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Extract all files from the archive while maintaining
the directory structure. Upload to your host by ftp. Make sure you set the permissions of the following to globally writable (So that they can be writable by the webserver application):

* File /include/config.php

* Folder /install

* Folder /templates

* Folder /img/upload

* Folder /img/smilies

For Windows Systems this is not an issue, for Unix type of systems, you need
to chmod the Folder or File to 777.

Observe that images should be uploaded in binary mode while text and .php
files should be uploaded in ascii mode. Most ftp clients are clever
enough to handle this.

Then you can run the Installer If you uploaded the files to
http://yoursite.com/ then run
http://yoursite.com/install

This will ask you for your database details which you need to know, it will
then create the required tables and create the file config.php.

If you cannot run the installer, you will need to edit the file
config.php then you need to dump the file /install/create.sql into your MySQL database.

If you need further assistance, please visit our forums and ask for help.
http://www.bongoland.net/viewforum.php?f=5

Thanks

I hope you enjoy this software.

Comments and feature requests are welcome on the above mentioned
forums.