Rutgers University

The buzzword here was 'Administration'. Basically Rutgers needed a small customized CMS to control news, events, the calendar and most importantly the navigation system. To begin, the nav was to be written in Flash and so I would need to write a nav component that was populated at runtime and could be controlled and edited on the backend by an easy to use interface. This was accomplished via a mixture of php and mySQL, integrated with Flash on the front end and AJAX on the backend. The menu is easy to arrange and edit while harboring the ability for unlimited category nesting. The news and announcement tools are pretty straight forward html/php/mysql. News/announcements are entered into a database and retrieved via php depending upon certain conditions set in the POST/GET variables. The backend is a nice little tricked out WEB 2.0 administrative interface with access control that lets users arrange and edit items as if using a software program versus a web interlace. No page refreshes and items can be dragged into order. For the calendar section I implemented a solution that allows those with permissions to ftp their iCalendar file to the server and have the events automatically added to the public calendar interface. This allows users to create calendars locally and use them for multiple purposes. Finally, all of this was written for portability as these components will eventually be used for multiple departments. That being said, minus a few small config details, the code is essentially drag and drop