Wedge

AKCS-WWW - When you demand the best

There are many "forum systems" available around the Internet, but none offer the feature set of AKCS-WWW, including:

    * Operates with all data stored in the "back end" database; other systems store avatars and images in flat files on the file system. This crates the potential for both data loss and complicates (significantly) the ability to scale the system to larger hardware and distributed environments.With all data in the database, including uploaded image files, the entire data set is always contained in the DBMS and thus provides "one point" backup, restore, and data integrity.

    * Supports both Blogs and Discussion Forums - on one platform.

    * Is a compiled binary executable. Unlike other systems that depend on the security of "PHP" or other server-side packages (all of which have a dubious history in this regard) AKCS-WWW is one compiled binary "C" program. This also provides tremendous performance advantages that simply cannot be had from interpreted systems.

    * Runs with Postgres, an enterprise-quality DBMS.

    * Supports horizontal scaling. That is, you can have multiple hosts serving the web (running Apache) and multiple machines running the read-side database in any combination, with one master DBMS machine for writes, limited only by the aggregate wire performance between the master and slaves. This allows for extraordinarily-large installations should the need arise along with both fault-tolerance and scalability.

    * Is template driven. The screen and callout format to the database is driven by administrator-customizable templates along with CSS sheets and thus the "look and feel" is almost entirely under administrator control. Multiple "CSS" sheets may be offered to users if desired to change fonts, colors and similar user interface presentation features.

    * Supports the use of SSL for authentication and storage of passwords as one-way hashes, making password theft from the system itself nearly impossible. (Compromise of the user's machine, of course, can lead to password theft.)

    * Can operate with a "donation" or "subscription" system and other custom needs. If you can express what you want to do in SQL, you can probably make AKCS-WWW do it. The system runs a timed job out of the cron periodically which can examine the system's database tables and do virtually anything an administrator would like. A Paypal Interface package for direct PayPal connectivity is included.

    * Maintains near-forensic quality logs. All postings and messages are normally stored indefinitely - even if "changed", along with IP addresses, giving the administrator the ability to retrieve material if required by various civil authorities.

    * Extremely fast full-text search is supported as a native database function, with the ability to search millions of individual messages in tenths or hundredths of a second. Unlike most other systems that are forced to limit search activity to keep system load under control, AKCS-WWW has no similar limitation. It also "stems" words automatically ("billions" and "billion" both return the same thing) and supports complex boolean searches if desired by the user.

    * Internal RSS support allows for subscriptions, including authentication and permission enforcement, by client users.

The package manager could be set up like this: when you open the package manager it opens up to a screen quite similar to the interface it has now except with some specific features added. First, a button (a form preloaded with all current mods version numbers, to check if there is new versions available dl.wedge.org). Second, a list of all the mods currently installed (with added info if newer on mod site after button click). Third, a button for pulling up a list of available mods that are not currently installed and are available for release. Fourth, if you select one or more mods, there is a button that allows you to in one step, except for making sure the admin really does want to install these mods and a confirmation of possible known conflicts between one mod or another, download, install and auto redirect to configure screen. Basically 1 php file acting as a download liaison on dl.wedge.org. This file can also include ssi.php and have full secruity and an admin login all its own. As well as making it possible for modders to maintain, enable, and diable their mod according to their needs. Everything to make this work already exists in one form or another in smf. In smf you can download a mod from a url. Well wedge can go further and have a full mod and update interface that combines the update and mod additions in just a few clicks. This is easier to implement than most other changes wedge intends making. The tools are already there, its just a matter of using them a bit different way.

Tell ya what, ill get my old brother word processor and mail nao a letter and make him type it up for more english practice. lol

Tell ya what, ill get my old brother word processor and mail nao a letter and make him type it up for more english practice. lol