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Feature overview

User frontend

• Each module features new-entry form, edit-entry form, search form, main view and detail view with submodule capabilities
• Home view welcomes user after login showing extracts of configured modules
• Quick search in the main view
• Full search featuring all input form fields
• Entries may be deleted and undeleted (trash bin function)
• Sophisticated filter widgets in main and detail view
• User specific filter / search settings are stored persistently

Module configuration:

• Supported data (column) types: text_single, text_multi, select_single, select_multi, id, date, time, timestamp, date_interval, file, image, checkbox, money etc.
• Each data type has it's own widget in input forms, filter sections, main view and detail view. E.g. a date input field will be displayed with a JS-enhanced calendar widget, or a name input field acting on a linked table will be displayed with an interactive AJAX search&select widget
• Images are scaled + optimized automatically using ImageMagick in the background. Various image sizes are rendered for main views and detail views.
• Custom input forms may be designed rapidly using a grid layout
• Each module may be displayed in a custom key color
• Building sub modules (appearing as tabs in detail view) is done by simply linking two tables
• JS-enhanced flexible category editor

Backend engine:

• Database engine with MySQL backend
• Template engine
• Session management
• Persistency engine configurable to work with arbitrary and human readable database structure.
• Completely working as Apache module written in Perl. Code gets compiled only once, then executed from Apache's internal cache.
• Various caching functions prevent redundant database work
• Module-specific skel files are auto-generated and may be populated with custom Perl code.
• W2g features a powerful API for programming in Perl including database functions, template functions, mail sending (with MIME support), Image manipulation, calendar/date computing etc.

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