Intro
As stated on the front page, Flexipublish is a web publishing tool, commonly categorized as a CMS or Portal Software, intended for any market segment defined by a set of characteristics.
Those are commercial descriptions of the platform. Technically however, FlexiPublish is a project with focus on flexibility. To achieve flexibility, great effort has been put into three important areas: standards compliance, modularization and configurability. In order to further ensure flexibility, FlexiPublish is also free and open source. This also makes the product easily auditable, which is benefic in terms of security and reliability.
A series of well tried technologies are used to support FlexiPublish. It is written from scratch in PHP (5.1.6), has a PostgreSQL (8.3) database backend and runs under the Apache (2) web server. The PDO database abstraction layer has been thoroughly and consistently deployed in order to achieve som degree of database backend transparency, and more importantly, to protect against SQL injection and boost SQL connection performance.
