( webThing )

Introduction

webThing is a Global Information Delivery Framework™
It is a flexible way to structure your web site
It is a template system with derived templates for the most open ended Human-Experience-Oriented model building.

Using XML as its configuration, dating and subject database and PHP as a wrapper applying XSLTransformations to the data streams.
This system (including translation templates and structural schemas) is being built from scratch on top of PHP5.

I am currently working on the code/functionality of webFræmwerk and it is being used in small client projects and on the site you are viewing.

webThing should be able to handle the following data types:

Overview

<?php
$site = new Site;
if( $site->processConf( "../site.xml" ) ){
	echo( "You now have the soul of the site loaded and can now flesh it out." );
}
?>

Layer 1 - Data

Layer 2 - Request Handling and Translation

Layer 3 - Structured XHTML

Layer 4 - Visual Rendering

System Files

site.php (request handler)
site.xml (configuration)
lib.php (general functions)
wrapper/* (xhtml shell)

Web System Dependencies

XML Databases (site conf file)
XSLT w/PHP
Apache Web Server
Mac OS X Server

Specifications

XHTML 1.1 (Validator)
CSS 2.1 (Validator)

1. Structural Schema

Example of a Thing Tree

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<things description="Web Coding Projects" owner="Orgnsm, LLC">

	<thing id="webapp" content="/content/code/webapp/index.xml"/>

	<things id="webmodules"
	         title="Orgnsm Web Application Modules"
	         client="INTERNAL"
	         subject="web"
	         ref="http://orgnsm.org/code/web/products/webmodules"
	         thumb="/content/code/05_thumb.png">

		<thing id="journalmodule"
		         title="Orgnsm Journal Module"
		         client="INTERNAL"
		         subject="web"
		         ref="http://orgnsm.org/code/web/products/webmodules"
		         thumb="/content/code/05_thumb.png">
			<a href="/content/code/web/00_1.png" class="get_bigger"><img src="/content/code/web/00_1-small.png" alt=""/></a>
			<p>Back-end code, information/system design by Orgnsm (PHP, XML)</p>
		</thing>
		<thing id="gallerymodule"
		         title="Orgnsm Gallery Module"
		         client="INTERNAL"
		         subject="web"
		         ref="http://orgnsm.org/code/web/products/webmodules"
		         thumb="/content/code/05_thumb.png">
			<a href="/content/code/web/00_1.png" class="get_bigger"><img src="/content/code/web/00_1-small.png" alt=""/></a>
			<p>2007</p>
		</thing>
	</things>
	<thing id="breze_site"
	         title="Breze.net"
	         client="Breze"
	         subject="web"
	         ref="http://breze.orgnsm.org"
	         featured="yes"
	         featuredimg="/content/design/web/07_featured.jpg"
	         thumb="/content/design/web/07_thumb.png">
			<img src="/content/design/web/07_1-small.png" full="/content/design/web/07_1.png"/>
			<p>Singer/Songwriter Promotional Mini-Site</p>
			<p>All front and back-end code/information design by Orgnsm (XHTML, CSS, PHP, XML, XSLT)</p>
			<p>2004</p>
	</thing>
</things>

This XML data tree is transcoded by /lib/Thing_class.php into various XHTML manifestations based on the user's URL request.

2a. URL concepting

orgnsm.org/tags/design/2008

orgnsm.org/journal/2007/12/tags/ego

orgnsm.org/documents/tags/banners

orgnsm.org/art/visuals/2007

orgnsm.org/art/web/?id?/holy_protection

orgnsm.org/galleries/art/web/2003/type/screen/page/2


patterns:
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/####/   (year - conflict with page #?)
/##/     (month - conflict with page #?)
/tags/
/id/     (or is this also part of the path automatically?)
/page/
/type/
/syndicate/


or should these sorting patterns be solely query strings, i can't decide.

url_research 2008-04-04-01:07:28 Dissolution

posted="2008-02-19-20:09:24"

Download

This system should be available for download soon.

Credits

Design, Execution, Programming by Justin Bird

Top notch hosting by 1and1.

Back-end code, information/system design by Orgnsm (PHP, XML)

Since at least 2007

webThing