The ZBase Object Framework
What is ZBase ?
ZBase is an object framework (set of classes) written in PHP4 allowing to
develop the www frontend of a database very quickly and simply. In ZBase,
each entry in the database can be considered as an object, and ZBase
provides standard methods to modify or display its content. ZBase is aimed
at experienced web site developers, not at the low-end user. You won't have
this web interface working in less than five minutes. ZBase is released
under the General Public Licence.
For more information, please see the INSTALL file
here and a few schematics about ZBase
structure.
We have also set up an example
database that allows you to test some of the features. It is a pre-release
version of Alinka Kawet, the application
developed by Alinka for its needs of customer management (for the moment it is
only available in French). Don't hesitate to modify it (use login : zbase and
password : monfr). This example source code can be downloaded
here.
Current status
ZBase version 1.0 has been released on Monday, September 18th 2000.
It's being used on a production site (Alinka). Some parts of the framework
remain to be written, but what's been written works
and provides the developers with a lot of features already. You can read
the ChangeLog from version 1.0b1 here.
Download
You can download ZBase 1.0 here
(HTTP). There's currently only a UNIX version, there aren't any plans to
port it to windows - though it would be basically a matter of paths in
the installer.
Support
If you have questions about ZBase,
subscribe to the zbase-users mailing-list. Send a mail to ecartis@via.ecp.fr with «
subscribe zbase-users » in the message body. Two other
mailing-lists, zbase-announce and zbase-devel, are also public
and accessible through the same way. We welcome user feedback
and suggestions, including pieces of code. We would also be
very glad to work with new developers, so if you want to make a
contribution, even small, don't hesitate to drop us a line. ZBase
is an open-source project. You can even try the latest snapshot
of the sources using CVS (but it may be
broken !).
Contributors
ZBase 1.0 has been written by Christophe Massiot
and Mathieu
Poumeyrol, with the support of some friends :
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