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# phpWebNotes - a php based note addition system # Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Webnotes Team - webnotes-devel@sourceforge.net # This program is distributed under the terms and conditions of the GPL # See the files README and LICENSE for details phpWebNotes is a PHP based solution to letting users add their own comments to a document. It is heavily modelled after the example set by php.net. This project was originally conceived to help people who maintain technical help docs and how-tos. It is more direct than searching through a forum and less involving for the users than signing up for a mailing list. Of course, it adapts to other uses easily. Updating documents is tedious and documents often lack the real world examples and experience to make them truly useful. The best help sites we have ever found had not only detailed documentation but lots and lots of examples and problems and quirks that appear in real life. Unfortunately this rules out many man pages (unix help docs). Allowing user comments lets the doc maintainer do less work. Whenever the maintainer needs to update the doc they can just roll in the user feedback instead of recreating the information. This sort of automation cuts down on email and mailing list traffic as well. You will need to have PHP, MySql, and a web server. You don't need to know too much about any of them other than how to set them up and some basic administration commands. The team would appreciate an email letting us know if you find this program useful. This information will not be published without permission, it will just provide the team with the feedback that this have proven to be useful for some people and hence will motivate the team to put more effort into it. Also this feedback is what we need to keep improving phpWebNotes.