Posted by Erwin Moller on 11/16/08 11:29

CountDraculla wrote:

> Problem of this month : Article Management System
>
> phpXperts Coding Contest, October 2005.
>
>
> This project will help PHP developers who want to boost up their skill
> in a competitive environment. Competition brings much pleasure and
> knowledge. We hope this coding-contest will give more pleasure to you
> all the PHP lovers.
>
>
>
> To inspire you with the real life problems every month we plan to
> arrange this coding contest with intuitive and distinct problems. As
> much as u participate, you will improve your coding skill as well as
> learn how to solve these problems with your favorite language. So don't
> waste your time, lets register for the contest and start.
>
>
>
> Features of the article manager:
>
> 1. There must be an admin panel and you can add users and manage their
> privileges management via admin panel. You may use LDAP, Active
> Directory or any Database for this.
>
> 2. If you apply design patterns, that will be considered as a plus.
>
> 3. Must support unlimited categories, subcategories and authors.
>
> 4. There must be article and author rating system present in your
> article manager.
>
> 5. Anonymous users can submit comment on articles.
>
> 6. You must implement a flexible CRUD (Cut Retrieve Update Delete)
> system for managing articles
>
> 7. You must implement WYSIWYG content editor
>
> 8. Draft management should be implemented
>
> 9. Password protected article
>
> 10. Image management system for articles.
>
> 11. There must be different roles of each and every user. Also you must
> ensure that someone could be of higher privilege and someone could be
> with lower. Higher privileged person can edit lower privileged person's
> article anytime.
>
> 12. Template based look-n-feel for the site.
>
> 13. There must be a system to block any IP address from viewing the
> article manager.
>
> 14. There must be a traffic logging system.
>
>
>
> Rules:
>
> 1. You must be a member of phpXperts group. If you are not a member
> yet, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/phpexperts and become member.
>
> 2. You can use PHP4 or PHP5, but we prefer PHP5.
>
> 2. Your article management system must be compatible with Linux
> Operating System
>
> 3. You can use MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite as your database backend.
>
> 4. You must separate presentation layer from your business logic using
> any popular template engine like smarty.
>
> 5. You must implement Data Abstraction Layers by yourself or you may
> use some existing one like adoDB.
>
> 6. No copyrighted material is allowed. If we find anything copyrighted,
> your code will not be qualified for the contest. Moreover if you use
> any third party library or module, you must mention it and give credit
> to the proper developer.
>
> 7. You must follow the standard coding convention and properly document
> your code. Submissions without documentation will be considered minus.
> But remember; don't make your code over commented.
>
> 8. You cannot use any COM extension.
>
> 9. You must release the source code under GPL.
>
>
>
> Deliverables:
>
> 1. All sources along with dependencies (recommended) should be bundled
> in an archive.
>
> 2. Installation Note
>
> 3. Database Schema
>
> 4. Dummy Data.
>
>
>
> Prizes
>
> 1. One developer license of Fusion Chart (worth $149) from Infosoft
> Global
>
> 2. One original paperback book (UK edition) from Packt Publishers
>
> 3. Two one year PDF subscription of best PHP Magazine "PHP Architect"
> from "Somewhere In... "
>
>
>
> How to submit Code
>
> 1. Bundle all your code and necessary documents and email to us at
> "contest-submission@phpxperts.com"
>
> 2. Soon we will provide a web based interface for uploading your code
> instead of emailing. Keep in touch.
>
> Deadline
>
> You must submit your project before November 14th, 2005.
>
>
> And Finally, Judges will decide the winner and Their Decission is
> Final.
>
> Thank you for your interest in phpXperts Coding Contest.
>
> -- phpXperts


LOL,
My clients pay 15.000 euro for such a system each time.

You are wasting my market with this contest!
;-)

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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