ORDnance
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Author: Mark Thom & Roy Souther

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Summary

ORDnance (Open Source Reporting and Design) is intended as a completely Open Source reporting system that's easy to implement and use on standard Linux systems. ORDnance is licensed under the GNU GPL and Copyright© Silicon Tao Technology Systems Inc. 2004

It allows the design and deployment of dynamically generated reports through the use of two components, the PHP parser and a specially designed WYSIWYG HTML editor. This component will plant comment embedded pseudo-code into source HTML. Based on the database and format settings specified in the pseudo-code, the parser will write the appropriate PHP to a new file with the original HTML kept intact. Once this file has executed, a formatted HTML report will be produced.

Features
For examples on how to use ORDnance click here.

More information
Changes.txt by Roy (current)
Progress by Mark (Feb 5, 2004 to April 12, 2004)



Contributions and Suggestions
We are open to contributions and suggestions from the community and can be contacted at roy@silicontao.com.

Downloads: (see how to below)
Hold down the shift key and click the link.
Contact:
Roy Souther <roy@SiliconTao.com>
Mark Thom <mark@silicontao.com>


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How to download
The download is available in three ways:
CVS source tree
Each day a compressed tar gziped file is made of the CVS anonymous download. This is the same download as you would get if you logged in to the CVS server anonymously and downloaded the project and then compressed the directory. The advantage with this is that it comes with the CVS tags ready to use but you do not need CVS to get it. If you don't have CVS installed or you are not familiar with how to use it you should download this file.

After you download this file extract it like so tar xvfz ordnance-CVS.tgz and a new directory called ordnance will be available with all the source in it.

If you download this file and you want to login to the CVS server to get the newest version simplely change into the ordnance directory and run these two commands cvs login and press enter for the anonymous password then cvs update to get the newest files.

CVS get script
The get script is designed to be a small download that will look to see if you have the needed libraries to compile the source code and then automatically download and compile the program. The file is easy to use if you have a Linux system with CVS installed just download the file and run bash GetOrd.bsh and if you have the needed tools and libraries you should have a running program in just a few minutes.