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    README

    FIREFLY
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This document contents the following topics

- What is firefly
- Project's origin
- Changelog
- archive main tree
- Current developments
- Future developments

You may obtain the last version at http://firefly.ocare.com/


What is firefly ?
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Firefly is a multi-user professional help desk system with several additional
applications including company and contact management, knowledge database management,
and contracts management.
Firefly is also an application framework providing services such as
user authentication, profile management, and database abstraction.
It is designed on PHP3, postgreSQL, and Apache.

Any new module profits firefly's user authentification and framework services.
A library of generic functions and a unified structure of the folders
make it possible to develop ew modules easily.

Project's origin
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Firefly was initiually developed by the company Open Care, Open source support provider.
The decision to release firefly to the community rises directly from its activity.

The structure of the data base was started in December 1999,
Production state at Open Care took place in November 2000,
Version 1.0 was released in 2001-02-05.

Changelog
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2002-01-15 version 1.1.01
    - Bug fixed in postgresql connect string
	- Display bug fixed in support module
	
2002-01-09 version 1.1
    - All scripts have the .php extension
    - The product requires now php 4.x and PostgreSQL 7.1.x
    - Simplest GUI

2001-02-20 version 1.0.2
    - Less redundant scripts between support and contacts modules
    - New connect script to postgresql
    - Minor changes to gui

2001-02-15  version 1.0.1
    - Fix in initialization sql script
    - Modules ids in applid.php3 files fixed
    - change pg_pconnect() to pg_connect()

2001-02-05  version 1.0

2000-11-20  version 0.9b, beta testing at Open Care

Main tree
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/

/dumps

/images

/include

/templates

/modules

/modules/admin
/modules/admin/dumps
/modules/admin/images
/modules/admin/include
/modules/admin/scripts

/modules/contacts
/modules/contacts/dumps
/modules/contacts/images
/modules/contacts/include
/modules/contacts/scripts

/modules/doc
/modules/doc/dumps
/modules/doc/images
/modules/doc/include
/modules/doc/scripts

/modules/support
/modules/support/documentation
/modules/support/dumps
/modules/support/images
/modules/support/include
/modules/support/scripts