                                glFusion Readme

What is glFusion?
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glFusion is a content publishing system. It has been called a blog, content
management system, and even an application development framework. Regardless
what you call it, glFusion provides all the tools necessary to quickly create
and maintain a content driven web site. glFusion also provides a rich
application development environment.

glFusion is well organized and provides a very powerful system that is
extremely easy to use. glFusion powers everything from personal blogs, to high
volume community discussion sites, and almost everything in between.

A summary of glFusion’s features are:

Blog/CMS Features

    * Create, Schedule, Post and Edit articles in multiple topics.
    * Save story drafts until they are ready for publishing.
    * Control over formatting used in articles (HTML white lists).
    * Control over acceptable content (filtering of offensive language).
    * Embed images or other content in articles.
    * Multiple Authors can post.
    * Submissions from users.
    * Support for comments, trackbacks and pingbacks.
    * Export and import in all common syndication formats (RSS/RDF/Atom etc).
    * Spam detection and rejection.
    * Calendar functions with support for personalized calendars.
    * Support for OpenID and other remote authentication methods.
    * Extendible via numerous plugins.

Administration Features

    * User accounts and access controls.
    * Robust security model for all objects which can be extended for use in
      plugins.
    * Access can be defined for each article, topic etc.
    * All passwords are stored encrypted.
    * All admin access is logged.
    * All errors are logged.
    * Complete error logging on all forms and SQL calls.

Developer Features

    * Plugin support with Application Program Interfaces (API) for developers.
    * A fully configurable block system, with php-in-block support.
    * Well organized code base, use of PHP's Object-Oriented features.
    * Thin database abstraction layer allowing glFusion to be ported to DBMS's
      other than the default (MySQL is the only database currently supported
      by glFusion).

Support
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The best support method for glFusion is the glFusion Web Site located at
http://www.glfusion.org.  There is an active community ready to help out
where they can.

Known Issues
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Known issues in the current release is tracked in the glFusion Wiki located
at http://www.glfusion.org/wiki/doku.php?id=glfusion:issues

glFusion also maintain an active bug tracker and feature request system. If
you identify a bug, please let us know by filing a bug report at:

    http://tracker.glfusion.org


System Requirements and Installation
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Visit the glFusion Wiki at

    http://www.glfusion.org/wiki/doku.php?id=glfusion:start

For the latest in requirements, installation, and upgrade documentation.


License
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glFusion is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
Version 2.


Further Documentation
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glFusion has extensive online documentation available at:

http://www.glfusion.org/wiki/doku.php?id=glfusion:start
