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Get Involved Backend
Get Involved is powered by a custom piece of software known simply as 'Get Involved Backend' or GIB. GIB is written primarily in PHP running on top of a postgreSQL database and making use of the Smarty templating system. Credit should also be given to the prototype javascript library which is used to assist with some of the AJAX-driven features on the site.
At the moment James Turk is the sole author of GIB, and GIB is closed source since before a release there would need to be a full security audit and source cleanup. Any parties interested in the source for GIB or for commissioning custom work should contact James directly.
Version History
0.2 - November 26 2006
- fixed small display glitches that appeared after initial live testing
- addition of RSS feed featuring front page news
- addition of archive allowing for dynamic filtering of stories by source, category, and date
- source and category on all news articles now link to appropriate archive
- added method for creation of static content to administrative interface (one of the results of which is currently being viewed)
0.1 - November 2 2006
Initial launch of new site.
- Fully functional (but not pretty) administrative interface
- Featured new 'drifting' theme instead of table driven theme from previous release
prerelease - August 10th 2006
Semi-functional frontend that looked like old Get Involved website but pulled stories from basic database. Initial attempt to clean up table-driven HTML.