PROPS 0.7 review

PROPS is an open, extensible Internet publishing system designed specifically for periodicals such as newspapers and magazines who wa

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PROPS is an open, extensible Internet publishing system designed specifically for periodicals such as newspapers and magazines who want to publish online, either exclusively or as an extension of their print publication.

PROPS is written entirely in PHP4 using a MySQL database backend, and is free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Here are some key features of "PROPS":
Easy to install
Well-documented, robust API allowing third party developers to create 'plug-ins' to extend base functionality
Delivery of content to multiple target platforms (HTML, XML/XSL, WAP/WML, text, etc)
Readers may format a story for printing, or email to a friend
Pages are presented as static URLs so that 'spider' type search engines may crawl and index them
Strict separation of design and content - designers control site look and feel by developing templates using standard site editing tools such as Dreamweaver, GoLive, BBEdit, etc., while editors manage site content via a web interface
Permissions-based multiuser site management screens allow a PROPS site to be maintained by a distributed team of reporters and editors
Will support the XML-based News Industry Text Format
Will speak various XML dialects for both import and export, allowing syndication in both directions, and enabling PROPS sites to participate in distributed news networks
Is targeted at mid-sized publishers serving fewer than one million page views daily, however will be architected to scale through deployment of multiple front-end web servers, separate image servers, etc.

Requirements:
Reference platform for development is Linux 2.4 with Apache 1.3.x or 2.0, MySQL 3.23 or 4.x, and PHP 4.1 or higher. PHP3 will not be supported. We intend to make sure PROPS will run on other Unix platforms. NT/W2K/IIS support is dependent on whether we get requests for that, and more important, patches and development help.