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PHPizabi 2 VCP, Orion
What would it be if we would break the barriers between the informative and the social web – If we would fusion applicative and interactive? What would it be if we would revise the nature of the software that became a powerful social platform and reorient it to become a global axe for virtual content distribution? – What would your V2 be?
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Where are you, coder? |
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Before going on with an overview of V2, please let me introduce myself to the new users and cover some common questions that I constantly receive from the community.
I’m Claude D., nicknamed Reality (most of the time named “R” by the community). I am one of the original creators of PHPizabi, main programmer and lead administrator. My role in the PHPizabi community is pretty diversified and goes from global administration to software engineering. I’m also well known as “the guy behind the scene” that can never be reached, imaged as a creepy programmer isolated in a dark room with a load of computers around, which is not totally false! I am the programmer behind all the PHPizabi distributions from the first to the actual one. I also created a lot of software products before and after the PHPizabi G8 release era which is totaling around 300,000 websites partially or entirely empowered by codes I made.
Community members have been asking me for updates on my situation for at least a year and a half now, wondering where I have been and what have I been doing. Rumors have been around that I had let PHPizabi down, that I was working on a concurrent project and even that I died! – I can assure you I haven’t died as far as I can tell and that the PHPizabi project is closely monitored even though it’s not actively being worked on.
The truth is that I have diversified my field of activities. At the end of the PHPizabi G8 (Alicia) development, I started to immerse myself a little more in embedded and micro systems. For most of my PHPizabi community absence, I have been working on engineering projects. I am mostly developing algorithms and electronic devices for medical, acquisition and lab experimentation applications. I am still working on engineering projects (actually building ROV/AUV submarines) and it is not in sight to quit any of these.
Will the PHPizabi project die because of my other activities? No. Actually, it will make the future versions stronger and better. It is a known fact that a programmer will never stop learning throughout his career, and that fact applies to me as well. I have learned a lot while programming microcontrollers and complex algorithms. This kind of experience will help me make the next PHPizabi a better, stronger and faster platform.
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PHPizabi 2 - The basics |
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At first, PHPizabi was thought to be a social platform. Its primary and only mission was to support virtual communities by providing them with the tools they needed to meet and interact. It is not wrong to set a social target in any project but I have realized with time that it is wrong to make that the only primary goal.
A few months after the release of PHPizabi G8 (Alicia), I had tried a few different concepts known by the community as the PHPizabi BlackTie project and the PHPizabi One project. Both of them had in common to expand PHPizabi’s capabilities to enclose what we all know as the content management system (CMS) but it was just too soon for me to switch to the next gear so both of them where abandoned.
We’ve always said that your imagination was the limit, but we never really gave you the right tools to export your imagination into a concrete application. We’re soon going to assist the rebirth of PHPizabi not primarily as a social platform, but as a new vision of the actual CMS; the Virtual Content Platform (VCP). PHPizabi 2 VCP (codenamed Orion) will be axed as a platform to allow the administrator to create just about anything quickly and easily with an incredible flexibility. The new platform will allow any kind of portal to be created within minutes regardless of the kind of application it will have to cover, the kind of information it will have to deliver or the kind of social activity it will empower.
That is the future of the web; A place where it is possible for anyone to start from an idea and bring it to reality using tools made not only to produce a great experience for the end users, but also made to provide you, the administrator with all the flexibility, features and ease you need to really be the imaginational limit to your creation.
Security has been an issue in the past and actual releases of PHPizabi. It is a part of the game when releasing any software that issues will be discovered and exploited by the users. The top security concern in open modular software is that modularity suggests that part of the software will run on third party codes which do not allow controlling much of the module source and distribution. If a single module presents a security issue, the entire system might be threatened. The new structure of PHPizabi inspired by the singularity concept makes it possible to provide more security around internal components without compromising performances. |
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Release scenario |
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The actual release scenario involves two major releases and 4 development phases. At first, a last update to the PHPizabi G8 familly (PHPizabi Alicia v0.899R) will be published covering bugs reported for the actual version as well as all those previously covered by hot fix packs. This refresh release will mark the end of the G8 era. Even though G8 will be abandonned after the .899R release, distribution of the Alicia platform will continue even past the release of PHPizabi 2 VCP and until we come up with migration tools to allow websites running on the Alicia platform to upgrade to PHPizabi 2.
Development around PHPizabi 2 VCP (Orion) is divided in 4 phases and one release as described below;
P1. Core system prototype development (PHP)
P2. Administrative assets development (PHP/ASP/Platform)
P3. Core candidates A and B development (PHP/ASP)
P4. Modular blocks development (PHP/ASP)
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Would you like to participate? |
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Join the creative revolution; let us know what you would want to see in the next release. Everything is considered at this point so don’t be shy. Your ideas might become a part of the next PHPizabi generation.
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