WarHead Alpha Binary for Redhat 9 Released
Date: Tuesday, December 16 @ 10:29:19 CET
Topic: Software


WarHead is a GUI client frontend for the managment of phpNuke web portals. Written in C++ in KDevelop and QTDesigner it allows the client to manage the content of a phpNuke site in a dialog based frontend running on a X Windows based enviornment. This Alpha Version will allow you to Edit Story Text and change the settings for stories that are already posted onto a phpNuke Site. The source code is available on the SourceForge project site.

Do not run this on a production server. There is very little error checking and this version is only for testing purposes.

I strongly advise setting up a phpNuke site on a LAMP development server to test this Alpha version on. I am currently testing against phpNuke version 6.9 running on Redhat 9 with MySQL 3.23.54.

Here are some of the features that I have planned for the WarHead GUI.

My main concentration is on the editing of the stories and studying the Nuke code right now, so that I mimic all of the updates to the DB.

After that module is completed the add stories should be easy to implement. I have used the QT text edit class for the text boxes so I can implement select text and click a toolbar button to create the html tags for bold, site links, email links and other html tags.

A pop up editor for the main story text for a larger edit view would be a good thing. I also would like to implement a spell check for both edit boxes for the stories. I think ISpell should do this.

For the translation feature I am thinking about using KBabel.

I have a good program flow with the phpNuke code so this project should be rather quick to develop. Another idea that I have been throwing around is to syntax highlight the edit boxes for PHP and HTML.

I might be able to link the Kate code or the KDevelop code to do this. Why re-invent the wheel when the libraries are already there. The QT DB classes have a PostgreSQL and an Oracle driver so that is another feature for the future.

The main vision for the WarHead project is to have a GUI for phpNuke that is fast, intuitive and as easy to use as possible.







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