Template-driven, community website management system (CMS). Features: user-friendly (no HTML) webpage maintenance, strong emphasis on internationalization, conversion of any page to PDF, also galleries, forums, blogs, wiki, a plugin mechanism, and more!
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A very first release of the very first project! Engura is a CMS for websites, and as such offers many similar options to other projects of this nature, like easy (HTML-free) page maintenance, Web-based image and file management, etc. What separates it from all the others, however, is its aim to be as international as possible. It contains a dictionary (populated by admins and project's supporters) that is used to translate a website's interface as thoroughly and completely as possible. Note that the pages' contents are written separately from the interface, so the dictionary-powered translations only apply to items like buttons, form elements, system messages, and menus. * Next starring feature: on-the-fly conversion of HTML pages into PDFs via the TCPDF class (the current version that is used is the recently-released TCPDF_1.53.0.TC022)! latest release is always available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128076 * Engura allows the webmaster to implement as many templates as they want to use with the website, but its practical application is to make a printer-friendly layout. (remove the menus or big header images, ads from the printer version) * Other Objects available out-of-the-box: Blogging, Forums, and Wiki; Control Panel for administrators. The website can use any or all of these. Some things that I have forgotten to include with version 1.0 are now fixed: * pretty emoticons and a plethora of other icons are scattered throughout the interface making locating buttons easier. * The dictionary allows to import&export translations from source text files, making it easy to include a "&~@$"-ian interface to the future website. (Unfortunately, the only languages fully implemented right now are English, Russian and Japanese, but I hope some volunteers might be able to help out & contribute some more!) * Finally, the installation is really easy now. Just copy the files onto a webserver (check out the requirements first though), answer the questions from database-config utility when you run the site for the first time, and you are ready to go exploring & building! get the latest source at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=172731 If you find any bugs or have concerns or feature requests, feel free to post them on one of the forums on http://engura.com/forum or http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=172731 For more information about the system please visit http://engura.com/index
Changes from the 1.0 to 1.1... Well, I realized that I forgot to include a readme in 1.0... oops. To compensate, the full documentation is published at http://www.engura.com/index from which you can find as much info as you need and post any questions or requests for more details at the forum or wiki. engura 1.1 has a readme stub file that also redirects readers to the live version on the website. (.I.) Engura's installation was improved. No need for editing anything manually. it's as easy as: 1. copy (through FTP, naturally) the code to your webserver. (check that permissions on .htconfig are set to allow read&write by "Others") 2. it gives you a "Oh my god, the Database is not configured!" message and gives the form to fix that 3. Engura loads up a simple template and allows the new admin to login & start using the system with the default username (engura) & password (angou). (.II.) Added a very handy tool for the Dictionary: **The Ability to Export & Import Dictionaries** from engura-generated source files. That is useful because at the time of installation, the dictionary is empty, and will be slowly filled up with English phrases as the Construct is being used. However, what if you needed your default language to be something other than English?? Then you can download the text (source) file that is already pre-filled with all the terms in a given language. I am placing my hopes in the community to slowly add their own translations to the construct. If you would like to contribute a translation, please email me at vladimir@engura.com. In the meantime, the available translations come in 3 languages: English, Russian, Japanese. A more detailed How-To on exporting/importing dictionary files can be found in the README at http://www.engura.com/howto (.III.) A cosmetic update: changed and added many additional icons, included more imoticons into the editor, fixed a few display glitches.
none so far: this is the first release
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