SourceWell

SourceWell is a highly configurable, well documented software announcement and retrieval system entirely writen in PHP3 and database independent. It includes user authentication and autherization 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 and many other useful features.

SourceWell depends on the PHPLib library (version 7.2 or later). 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 800 applications inserted and has been the main reason why we have made this software.

BerliOS SourceWell is part of the BerliOS project at GMD FOKUS. Please, have a look at http://www.berlios.de for further information.

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.

You can download the latest version of SourceWell (sources and documentation) at: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/sourcewell

SourceWell Features:

• Different type of users (nonauthorized users, anonymous user, users, editors and administrators) with different functions
• Session management with and without cookies (beta)
• Database independent
• 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
• Web browser independence
• Cache avoidance