# $Id: README.txt,v 1.13 2003/05/22 03:21:22 chavan Exp $ 


                           
			     UIPublish

			    INTRODUCTION


* COPYRIGHT NOTICE

  UIPublish
  Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Urban Insight, Inc. 

  UIPublish 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.

  UIPublish is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with UIPublish; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA  
  
  (See LICENSE.txt)


* CREDITS

  Developed by Abhijeet Chavan <chavan at users.sourceforge.net>

  UIPublish development is supported by Urban Insight, Inc. 
  http://www.urbaninsight.com

  Also thanks to:

  - Mats Lidstrom <mlidstrom at users.sourceforge.net> (Bugfix)
  - Toni Cornelissen <toni at dse.nl> (HTML filter)
  - Eduardo Lucero <balzac at users.sourceforge.net> (Bugfixes)
  - Quentin O'Sullivan <quentin at qto.com> (QTOFileManager)
  - Christian Peralta <peralta at urbaninsight.com> 
    (QTOFileManager customization)
  

* DESCRIPTION

  A minimalist PHP-based system for managing dynamic content on a
  website. Suitable for publishing articles, announcements, events,
  etc. Provides an administration interface for content managers.
  Look-and-feel of front-end pages can be customized.

  Content is stored as two types of "items" -- "article" items and
  "event" items. Article items are for content such as news or press
  releases. In other words, items with a publication date. Article
  items with a publication date that matches today's date or earlier
  are displayed on the website. Event items are for content such as
  appointments, meetings, or workshops. In other words, items with
  an event date. If the event date of an event  matches today's date
  or is in the future, it is displayed as an upcoming event. Past
  events can also be displayed.

  Both types of items can be classified in to separate sections. For
  example, with UIPublish you can manage content in a "News" section
  as well as "Reports" section. Items can be listed on the main page
  of a website as well as a separate list for each section.Items can
  also be assigned a "Visibility" setting so that only items with a
  "High" visibility setting appear on the main page of the
  website. Each item has a title, summary, content, and event/post
  date. Each item can also display a "related link" or include a
  file kept in a directory on the filesystem.
  

* FEATURES

- Add dynamic content to a static website
- Easy-to-use Web based control panel for content managers
- Schedule content for publication on a given date
- Schedule content  to expire on a given date
- Automatic recognition of URLs in content
- Ability to use selected HTML tags within the content
- Ability to upload and link images, PDF documents, HTML files
- Ability to "include" formatted HTML pages
- Coexists with web publishing software such as GoLive and Dreamweaver
- Categorize content in 'sections' and by 'topics
- Content is stored in a database for easy and fast access
- Illustrated online user manual
- Syndication using RSS or Javascript
- PHP beginners should find the code simple enough to customize
- Released under the GNU General Public License (GPL)


* REQUIREMENTS, INSTALLATION, AND NOTES

  - PHP (http://www.php.net)
  - MySQL (http://www.mysql.com)

  For more details about requirements and installation information
  see INSTALL.txt. For version notes and other information see
  NOTES.txt.