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| | ; [http://www.imagemajic.com/ ImageMagic] : Used to process images, such as change the sizes, optimize and add watermarks. | | ; [http://www.imagemajic.com/ ImageMagic] : Used to process images, such as change the sizes, optimize and add watermarks. |
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Revision as of 16:13, 25 September 2008
Overview
Expressobeans is built on a standard set of technogies. The site can be broken down into 5 basic components: Art Guide, Wiki, Forum, Chat and Storefront.
The basic site exist on the follow platform.
- Red Hat Entrprise Linux
- This is the operating system.
- Apache Web Server
- This is the web server.
Art Guide
The art guide is a custom hand written application. It is built using
- PHP
- This programming language.
- Smarty
- Used to seperate the code from the user interface and also to facilitate some page caching.
- PHP Mailer
- Used for sending emails.
- JpGraph
- Used for creating charts.
- Pear:HTML AJAX
- AJAX engine used to provide a enhanced user experience letting us change things on pages that are already loaded. This is used for the search filters, personal message status, and the random art control to name a few.
- Pear:MDB2
- Used as a database abstraction layer.
- Pear:Log
- A backend logger to keep ulgy messages off the screen and into a place where they can be used.
- ImageMagic
- Used to process images, such as change the sizes, optimize and add watermarks.
Source Control
- Subversion
- Source code repository.
Wiki
- MediaWiki
- A great turn key application. We integrated it with our Smarty template engine, added user management, and then reverse integrated core pages for Artists and Bands from the Art Guide into the Wiki.
Storefront
- osCommerce
- This turnkey application mangages the EB store. We had to add several community patches to get the functionality we needed. The application is very difficult to integrate with. It seems to be designed as "the site" as opposed to being just "part of a site". As a result, it will be taken out in the future.
Forum
- phpBB
- This is the base application that the EB Forum is built on. We only created the look and feel templates, and integrated the user management with the main site.
See EB:Forum Installation
Chat
- FlashChat
- This application had a flash bades interface. We integrated the adminstration functions with the main site and also integrated the user management.
eBay
- ebayLib
- Custom library for getting eBay auctions.
