History of Bitweaver - Web Framework

<p>This is the front end for material on the whole bitweaver framework and will link to both central information pages and my own more local material. While <a href="https://www.bitweaver.org/wiki/">bitweaver.org</a> was not responding yesterday it is back up today which is good news and I&#39;ve run a wget copy to my local machine as a backup.&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/BitweaverCMS/">github - BitweaverCMS</a> is the active repository for the code base, but I have now forked my own <a href="https://github.com/lsces/bitweaver">complete set of code</a>. I am wondering if it&#39;s the right thing to have done as my own fork is something of a divergence from the code base. Bringing things into sync with my own local copy has been something of a challenge, but in fact it IS flagging up temporary changes I made while first trying to get the PHP8.4 hosting working and the time being taken to merge things will, i think, be worthwhile. ((Webstack - PHP Version Upgrades|PHP Version Upgrades)) is a start at just what I&#39;ve been doing to the code base to make it more acceptable to PHP8.4 and later. This is expanded in the <a href="https://phpsurgery.uk">PHPSurgery </a>website which will expand on all the fine detail.</p>

<p>Part of the process has included linking in the various external code sources, so ADOdb, Smarty and Bootstrap are now forked from their github repositories. I&#39;ve moved Bootstrap back to the v3.4.1 tag, and the /dist code there matches just what I am using live. Next step is to roll back to ADOdb v5.22.8 as there are some later changes that don&#39;t fit my code, and having done that I do at least now have a working development code base.</p>

<h2>Core Packages</h2>

<ol>
<li>((Bitweaver - Install|Install))&nbsp;&nbsp;Required for installing bitweaver and adding packages in the future, also used to verify database structure is correct.</li>
<li>((Bitweaver - Kernel|Kernel))&nbsp;&nbsp;Many system that initializes everything, the main engine under the hood</li>
<li>((Bitweaver - Languages|Languages))&nbsp;&nbsp;Internationialization and multiple language support</li>
<li>((Bitweaver - Liberty|Liberty))&nbsp;&nbsp;Unified CMS Engine which powers many packages</li>
<li>((Bitweaver - Storage|Storage))&nbsp;&nbsp;This package is used to store uploads and certain cached files</li>
<li>((Bitweaver - Themes|Themes))&nbsp;&nbsp;Manage themes and site layout</li>
<li>((Bitweaver - Users|Users))&nbsp;&nbsp;Manage users, login settings, groups and permissions</li>
</ol>

<h2>Content Packages</h2>

<ol>
<li>((Bitweaver - Blogs|Blogs))&nbsp;&nbsp;Personal web journals</li>
<li>((Bitweaver Contact|Contact))&nbsp; Configurable address book that can handle an array of related data items</li>
<li>((Bitweaver - Fisheye|Fisheye))&nbsp;&nbsp;Image gallery system</li>
<li>((Bitweaver - Phpgedview|Phpgedview))&nbsp; GEDCOM Genealogical database integrated with the CMS</li>
<li>((Bitweaver - Search|Search))&nbsp;&nbsp;A search package with indexing</li>
<li>((Bitweaver - Stats|Stats))&nbsp;&nbsp;Site statistics</li>
<li>((Bitweaver - Wiki|Wiki))&nbsp;&nbsp;Collaborative document system with versioning</li>
</ol>

<h2>External Libraries</h2>

<ol>
<li>((Bitweaver - ADOdb|ADOdb))</li>
<li>((Bitweaver - Smarty|Smarty))</li>
<li>((Bitweaver - Bootstrap|Bootstrap))</li>
<li>((Bitweaver - Silk Icons|Silk Icons)) Essentially the colourstrap theme</li>
</ol>

<h2>Other Tools</h2>

<ol>
<li>((Webstack - PHP|PHP))</li>
<li>((Webstack - Firebird|Firebird))</li>
<li>((Webstack - nginx|nginx))</li>
</ol>

<p>The whole list of packages available from Bitweaver is <a href="http://Bitweaver Features">provided here</a>. A number of them will be restored here as time permits, but for the moment I&#39;m concentrating on getting all of the above as complete as I can get them on a current web stack.</p>