Read Me

PLEASE READ THE LICENSE.TXT FILE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE GPL LICENSE UNDER
WHICH PHOENIXZ HAS BEEN RELEASED.

PLEASE READ THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.TXT FILE TO KNOW WHO TO THANK FOR THIS :)
PLEASE READ THE PHOENIXZ_BASICS.TXT FILE TO LEARN SOME OF THE BASICS OF THIS
PROJECT!

This is the / (root) directory of PHPOS/PHOENIXZ. PHOENIXZ is the (open source)
core fork of PHPOS. PHPOS is the Operating System for PHP. Please note that
througout this project, the names PHPOS and PHOENIXZ may be used interchangeably,
because of PHPOS legacy. Both names will continue to exist, since PHPOS is more
clear as to what exactly the project is, a PHP Operating System

PHOENIXZ is a project that aims to make a platform and framework which makes it
possible to develop websites under PHP as if they were "normal" programs. To a
web developer, PHPOS is what GNU/Linux is to a "conventional" developer, 
an operating system. It will make your own remote computer with a desktop 
that can be accessible from all over the world. The interface to work with 
PHOENIXZ could be either X)HTML based, or, for example, a flash program.

PHOENIXZ takes care of all low level website / web system work, like user
authentication, cookies, sessions, etc. Also, it also makes the PHOENIXZ API
available together with a large framework of libraries that can be used to
quickly develop anything from very simple static HTML pages to highly advanced
web systems, like a web shop with complete administration system.

PHOENIXZ has been designed to be as open and abstract as possible, leaving
real implementation up to the developer. Since august 2004, the core of 
PHPOS development went open source under the nickname "PHOENIXZ"

To learn more about PHOENIXZ or PHPOS, or download the PHOENIXZ package, or
help developing the project, please take a look at one of the following 
websites:

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/phoenixz (Project sourceforge.net project page)
http://www.phoenixz.org or http://phoenixz.sourceforge.net (Project website)
http://demo.phoenixz.org (Project demo site)

For more information please read any of the other documents in this root
directory



In this directory you may find the follwing sub directories:

	bin/    PHOENIXZ "executable" scripts. All scripts that will be executed
            by PHOENIXZ are stored here in their own group subdirectories

	sbin/   PHOENIXZ "executable" system scripts. All scripts that will be executed
            by PHOENIXZ are stored here in their own group subdirectories

	boot/   boot scripts directory, here you can find various boot scripts
	
	etc/    various PHOENIXZ configuration files.
	
	elib/   External libraries: libraries that are NOT specifically. All
            libraries are stored in their own sub directory.

	home/   home directories of all other users
	
	lib/    PHOENIXZ compatible libraries. All libraries are stored in their own
            sub directory. These libraries may be either open source or closed
			source

	slib/   PHOENIXZ core libraries. All libraries are stored in their own sub
            directory.  All these libraries are open source

    root/   home directory of the root user

    tmp/    temporary directory, used for (i.e.) files in upload
	
    var/    variable data directory



In this directory (root) you may find the following files:

    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.TXT            Acknowledgements and thanks

    CONTACT.TXT                     Contact information in case you want to help
                                    run into trouble, etc.

    LICENSE.TXT                     File containing license information

    PHOENIXZ_BASICS.TXT             Some basic technical information about
                                    PHOENIXZ

    README.TXT                      You are reading that file right now you
                                    dummy...

    RELEASE.TXT                     Some quick info about this release

    VERSIONS.TXT                    Basic feature information for each version

    index.php                       The main file to be loaded

    crash_ie_at_your_own_risk.html  isnt microsoft funny, you just HAVE to love
                                    that company.. :) Use at your own risk!


									
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