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| What is SpooXe ? |
SpooXe is an open source set of scripts that, when installed on an Internet host with a PHP-capable (4.x or 5.x) web server (e.g., Apache) and a database (e.g., MySQL), allows administrators to easily create dynamic, complex and content-rich websites.
It is an ideal tool to develop Community sites of any size, corporative Intranets, portals, News, and still more.
A shorter definition would be this:
SpooXe is an object-oriented open source content management system that handles the creation and management of dynamic websites.
In legal terms, SpooXe is released under the terms of the “GNU General Public License” (GPL) and is free to use and modify. It is free to redistribute as long as you abide by the distribution terms of the GPL. |
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| What can you do with SpooXe ? |
Though born as a portal system, SpooXe is in fact evolving to become a full-fledged Content Management System.
In fact it can serve as a web framework for use by small, medium and large sites. In addition, one of the reasons thousands of users all over the world prefer SpooXe is because it's a safe, easy to use, flexible, powerful and friendly option to manage your content, your users and your sites.
You can use SpooXe to easily create a personal blog or journal. For this purpose, you can do a standard install, and then use its News module only.
For a medium site, you can use modules like News, Forum, Download, Web Links, etc., and create a sophisticated community to interact with your members and visitors.
For a large site, as an enterprise portal, you can also develop modules of your own and use SpooXe uniform user management system to seamlessly integrate your modules with the whole system. |
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| Key features of SpooXe ? |
Fully Modularized: Modules can be installed/uninstalled/activated/deactivated with a click using the SpooXe module manager.
Personalization: If the site manager wants it so, registered users can edit their profiles, select site themes, upload custom avatars, and much more!
User Management: A site's manager has the ability to search for users by various criteria, and also to send email and private messages to users through a messaging system.
System of group permission : SpooXe has a powerful easy to use system of permissions settings for modules and blocks which authorize the administrators to define the permissions by group.
Modifiable interface based on themes: SpooXe contains an easy to use theme editor. The administrators can change the look of the complete site with simple mouse clicks.
A lot of themes are available on download !
Multilingual support, currently French, English and German in language files for system and modules. |
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| Packaging and distribution script |
Themes, Modules, Blocks, Hacks
By looking at a file, one should know right away what kind of file it is:
1. Module, Theme, Block, Hack, Language File.
2. The version of SpooXe it works with. eg: 2.0.3 if it necessary
3. The revision of the file itself. eg: 1.02
m = Module
t = Theme
b = Block
h = Hack
l = Language
eg: for a module = m_spooxe_name_1.02.zip
Compressed archives should also contain the needed directory structure to make installing things easier.
i.e. A module would be named like above, and inside the archive, the directory structure would be:
/modules/modulename/files
a theme on the other hand would look like:
/themes/themename/files
Like this, as soon as the person unzips the file, he/she knows exactly where the files should go. |
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