
phpNewsCenter v0.6.5 (C) 2000 Quark Solutions
php3 based new admin tool

Distributed under the terms of the GPL
See COPYING for more info
http://www.quarks.com.au/phpNewsCenter
Tristan Bennett - tristan@quarks.com.au
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phpNewsCenter is php tool for managing  news and users on small to moderate 
sized sites.  The main aim of phpNewsCenter is to provide a secure and easy 
means to manage the submitting of news to your or your groups site.  It is 
highly scalable  with the  ability to be used by just one person or a few 
hundred people.  The key aspect of phpNewsCenter is the different classes of 
users who are able to make use of the system.  

Part One  (Admin Section)
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Managing Users
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The first class of users are referred to as "normal users", this class of 
user is able  to add news a communal "news spool", as well as change their 
password and e-mail address.    

The second class of user is a "super user", the role of super user is very 
modular in the context of running the system.  A "super users" rights is 
totally up to you.  The key rolls of  a "super user" i s as follows;

	Add news to system (Which is directly world readable);
	Manage Users on the system (only you or a very select few 
					should have this right)
	Manage News (Managing news with is world readable)
	Manage Spooled news (News which is submitted by "normal users"

	(All these rights are able to be turned on and off through the 
	Manage Users function)

You are able to also deactivate all users on the system,  they are not 
deleted so that their key information for displaying news items is not lost.


There are two means by which users are able to be added to the system;

	Self  Registration
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	Using rego.php3 (located in the base dir of distributed tarball) 
	users are able 	to add themselves  to the "spooled user list" which 
	is then managed by a super user who has "Manage User" rights

	DIY(Do it yourself)
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	A function is present for super users with "Manage User" 
	rights to add users.


Adding News
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All normal users are able to add news to the news spool.

Super users with add news rights are able to add news directly 
that is world readable.

Managing News
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Super users with manage news rights are able to edit news that is world 
readable.

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Part 2 (World Readable News)
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Well this is the whole point of long winded process, let the rest of the 
world know what is going on.

The displaying of news to the rest of world is now completely separate from 
admin section in regard to using same config files.  This means that you can 
separate the news section from the admin section.  You can change the look 
and feel of the output to suit your own needs.
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