>>> INTRODUCTION:


Webmatic is a revolutionary system for the dinamic creation (directly on-line) of your website.
With the webmatic control panel is possible to manage all the contents of a whole website without known any kind of programming language or HTML language.
With webmatic you can:

- Create and manage a newsletter;
- Manage a little market with announcements;
- Create and manage a F.A.Q. section (Frequently Asked Question);
- Create a page with the horoscope;
- Create and manage a search engine;
- Create a directories section;
- Create a page for users registration (with users login control panel);
- Create and manage user groups and administrators;
- Differentiate the access level in the website for the users and for the administrators;
- Create a page of "suggest website to your friends";
- Create a guestbook page;
- Manage up to 9 advertising banners simply;
- Create a multi language website with a fast change language panel (only italian and english for now);
- Insert tematic pages and normal pages;
- Create public pages or pages only for registered users;
- Create online surveys;
- Create one or more forums and chatrooms;
- Create a downloads section with statistics;
- Create media albums;
- Create a webmail section;
- Manage your online products catalog and ecommerce;
- Manage the "metatags";
- Change the whole website graphic aspect (style) with a click (there are more than 18 styles);
- You can view website visitors detailed statistics;
- And so one...

To obtain the last version of webmatic or the last update of this manual or to suggest and to segnalate bug or errors in webmatic, click on www.valarsoft.com.


 >>> WEBMATIC HISTORY:


2.7.1:

- Forum section totally rewritten;
- Some graphic objects added;
- Some code optimizations;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

2.7:

- Added RSS feed for the news (with panel);
- Fortune section, with the relative panel, added (see horoscope and fortune section);
- The users can now insert more images for a product in the ecommerce section;
- Database backup section added (incomplete);
- Forms error check was enanched;
- Little HTML editor was enached;
- "Rayblue" style was added;
- Fixed some errors in languages files;
- Some minor security bugs was fixed in administration area;
- Some code optimizations;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

2.6.2:
- Security bug, that lets some sql injection, fixed;
- Fixed some visualization errors;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

2.6.1:
- Security bug, that lets a visitor to include a file, fixed;
- Fixed some errors in languages files;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

2.6:
- New languages added: Français, Deutsch, Español (translation to do), Nederlands (translation done);
- Forum section enanced: "Create new discussion" permission added, tag "code" added, now you can quote a reply and edit a reply/discussion, now you can also create forum categories for all language. (See forum and chat section);
- Little HTML editor and smile editor was enanced;
- Webmatic its now tested and fully working with Firefox 1.5.0.8 or higher;
- New style added "green" and little emprovement to all the styles;
- Ecommerce section (administartor side) enanched;
- Security bug, that occurred when you delete a file in file management section, fixed;
- Some minor code optimizations;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

2.5:
- Users private section enhanced, (menu was created and all the functionalities are now much clear, added new function in private user section that lets the user to add products in the ecommerce section see user section);
- Magic quotes bug fixed, (now Webmatic works fine also with the "magic quotes php option" set to off);
- All the input forms redesigned;
- Added option that can enable/disable the logging for the visitators;
- Added a button that lets the administrator delete all the comments for a news item;
- Add button to delete a file in file menager section;
- Bug fixed in user section when you try to delete an user;
- Some minor code optimizations;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

2.4:
- Webmatic its now distribute under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.
- Webmail section added (see webmail management);
- Ecommerce section enanched (added custom fields, extra feedback, printable page and more pictures for products);
- Bug fixed when you search a product in ecommerce section;
- Overwrite check added in the upload section;
- Bug fixed and graphic optimization for trend section (in statistics module);
- Some options added;
- Some minor code optimizations;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

2.3:
- Chat section added (see forum and chat section);
- Duplicate function added in pages and news section;
- Move media function added in media album section;
- Style system improved, "Puff" style added and some icons added;
- Some minor code optimizations;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

2.2:
- Control panel improved (items lists redesigned);
- Contact form page added;
- Added vote system and top ten in media album section;
- Extrernal link (and target) option added to menu bar section;
- "Text to show" field added to links section;
- Style system improved and new styles added;
- News section improved and printable news function added;
- Webmatic its now compatible with PHP directive "register_globals=Off";
- Added option enable/disable for downloads in downloads section;
- Some code optimizations;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

2.1:
- Control panel improved (its more simple to use preferences, metatags and file manager);
- Media album section added, you can create your media albums with pictures, audio and video;
- Now you can insert also a flash logo for your website;
- Now you can create pages only for a group of users (see pages section);
- Database enanched and more stable;
- Now the file manager section use also HTTP to transfer files;
- Folders status function added to file manager section;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

2.0:
- Some source code optimizations and reorganization (Webmatic runs with more speed);
- Fully tested with Internet Explorer 5.0+, Netscape 6.2+ and Opera 6.0+;
- Banners exchange module added;
- Languages management section added (now the languages are taken from database);
- Now you can create more than one administrator with the relative permissions (see users section);
- Daily average added to the statistics;
- Panels and menu bar management was improved;
- Some improvements to the user to user messages and to the little market section;
- Style system was improved and styles "Blueline", "Soft" and "Elegant" added;
- Newsletters section improed (now you can send newsletters only for groups);
- Forum section improved (now you can create forums only for groups);
- Some bugs was fixed in news, forum and rotational banners sections.

1.9:
- Login field added for the administrator authentication;
- Users groups section added (see users section);
- Added search form in the users section (editor side);
- Log section added in statistics module;
- Rotational banners added (see banners section);
- Now you can send newsletters also to the emails in the guestbook;
- Added "Top ten" in directories module;
- Added search form in directories, forums and downloads module;
- Little improvements to the styles, "Blues" style added and some icons added;
- Security bug fixed;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

1.8:
- Directories section added;
- Guestbook page added;
- Now you can manage the "metatags" from control panel;
- Now you can save the sended newsletters;
- Smiles editor added in the forum section;
- Bug fixed in the chronological statistics;
- Some improvements to style system and new styles added;
- Some graphic objects added;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

1.7:
- Downloads section added;
- Comments added to news section;
- Now you can organize forums by category;
- Bug fixed and enached the little HTML editor;
- Global hourly statistics added;
- Downloads statistics added;
- Some graphic improvements, stylules and icons added;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

1.6:
- Registered users information page added;
- Forum section added;
- Now you can create public pages and page for registered users only;
- Registered users can create forums;
- Chronological statistics and website visitors trends added;
- Shipping cost added to ecommerce section;
- Now you can link the "user.php" page in the menu bar section;
- Some improvements added in the HTML editor, in the users section and images preview added;
- Autosetup added;
- Some graphic improvements and icons added;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

1.5:
- Added password recovery and online visitors/users functions to the login panel;
- Survey section added;
- Country, page and news statistics added, statistic page added;
- Visits counter and statistics now use a new sessions based system;
- Now you can active/deactive the news and the channels in the homepage;
- System information module added;
- Newsletter section improved;
- FTP section improved;
- "Sand" style added;
- Bug fixed in the links section and when you search a news;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

1.4:
- Add links categories, now you can organize links by categories;
- Search engine improved;
- Styles system improved;
- Some bug fixed in the ecommerce module;
- Products storage section in ecommerce module fixed;
- Added option in the channels module, now you can link a subchannel block also to a subchannel;
- Added new styles and new icons;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

1.3:
- Complete ecommerce module added (you can manage your online prodouct catalog, users cart and credit card transiction) see the Ecommerce section;
- User to user messages bug fixed;
- Detailed statistics module added;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

1.2:
- File manager added (now the file can be upload directly online) see the section Manage files with Webmatic;
- User messages module added;
- Some bug fixed in the "channels" module;
- The editor's user interface now is more light;
- Little HTML editor added to simplify the page creation;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

1.1:
- The styles system its more powerful;
- You can divide the news by categories;
- Some minor bugs fixed.

1.0:
- First public release.

Future develope:
To add new modules.


 >>> KNOW BUGS:


- File transfer problem in file manager module when use FTP to transfer a file from a Windows system to a linux hosting.


 >>> CREDITS:


Webmatic 2.7.1:

Programming by: Amuso Raffaele

Graphics by: Amuso Raffaele

Tanks to:
A. B. Haagsma (for dutch translation)
NTEK Technologies, www.ntektechnologies.com (for better english translation)