SourceWell

SourceWell is a highly configurable software announcement and retrieval system entirely written in PHP and is based upon a MySQL database. It includes user authentication and authorization system (anonymous/user/editor/admin), sessions with and without cookies, high configurability, multilangual support, ease of administration, RDF-type document backend, advanced statistics, announcing mailing lists, application indexing by sections, installation support and many other useful features.

SourceWell depends on the PHPLib library (version 7.2d). Only if you want to have diary and weekly mailing lists with the announcements, you should also have Mailman installed in your box.

You can see a fully working example of the SourceWell system at BerliOS SourceWell by visiting http://sourcewell.berlios.de. A close look at it will show you what you can do with SourceWell. BerliOS SourceWell has at this moment more than 2000 applications inserted and has been the main reason why we have made this software.

SourceWell can be easily translated into different languages. If you see that SourceWell does not have support in your language, you're gladly invited to help us with the internationalization of SourceWell by sending us your translation.

SourceWell Features:

* Different type of users (nonauthorized users, anonymous user, users, editors and administrators) with different functions
* Session management with and without cookies (beta)
* based upon MySQL database
* Advanced configurability from a single file
* Simple, intuitive use of the system
* Documentation for further development and/or adjustment
* Comments on applications
* Through-the-web reviewing and application administration for editors
* Through-the-web administration of applications, comments and licenses
* system FAQ and through-the-web administration of it
* Dynamic order of applications by date (default), importance, urgency or by alphabetical order
* "true" software counter for apps download, homepage redirections, etc.
* Multilingual support
* Anonymous users can introduce apps and comments
* The administrator can easily administrate whether there are anonymous users allowed or not
* Dynamic permission configuration
* Stable and development branches for applications
* XML Backend (RDF-document format)
* Daily and Weekly automatic Newsletters
* Version history of the applications
* Links between apps from the same author
* "intelligent" application validation for editors
* EMail advice for editors when apps are inserted or updated
* EMail advice for administrators when new users register
* Graphical statistics (a lot of them!)
* Test page (very helpfull when installing the system and something goes wrong)
* Web browser independence
* Cache avoidance