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<h3>PHPHP: The PHP Homepage Project</h3>

<p>PHPHP is a framework in PHP to generate a homepage (or any other kind of
web page with -mostly- static content) <b>quickly</b> and <b>easily</b>.
The only requirements are a web server with PHP support (everybody has this
nowadays), basic HTML knowledge and the ability to read a short README file
(or this web page).

<p><b>That's it.</b>

<p class=achtung>Note: PHPHP is in no way affiliated with the PHP Group or
the PHP project itself.<br/>It just uses PHP as a programming language.</p>

<p>

<h4>PHPHP does all the dirty work.</h4>

It does all the stuff you don't want to do again and again and again. Like

<ul>
<li>generating a common page header and footer,
<li>generating dynamic page menus (this is configurable),
<li>reading the current page title out of the menu (instead of having to
    specify the title in the menu, and in the TITLE tag, AND in a
    header tag),
<li>offering short cuts to repeated links, text, or paragraphs,
<li>generating lists of files and lists of directories with nice icons
    e.g. for downloading,
<li>automatically displaying sizes of images or titles of linked HTML
    files as links,
<li>... and much more.
</ul>

<p>


<h4>PHPHP is <b>EASY</b>, yet powerful.</h4>

<p>Right-click on your browser window (this page) and select "View source".
Then compare that to the <i>real</i> source code of the PHP page at <a
href='what.phps'>this page</a>. You will probably be confused by the first.

<p>The point is that you don't see any of that in the second :-), except
for your actual content and some markup. The only thing PHPHP is the fist
line. Everything around the content - structure, pages, titles, links,
... is automatically generated.

<p>That's the nice thing about it.

<p>


<h4>PHPHP is widely used.</h4>

<p>Well, as much as you can say for a private project that hasn't been
around in the public too long. :-) But it's been adopted locally ... and
I'm running quite a few sites with it. For example, my sites running PHPHP
(slightly modified in some cases):

<ul>
<li>This site (duh!),
<li><a target=_blank href='http://www.hitchhikers.de'>Mitfahrzentrale.AG - online car sharing service</a>, (template enabled version)
<li><a target=_blank href='http://www.whm.tu-harburg.de'>TUHH Dormitory Network</a>
<li><a target=_blank href='http://www.whm.tu-harburg.de/material'>TUHH Materialsammlung</a>
<li><a target=_blank href='http://asta.tu-harburg.de'>TUHH AStA</a>
</ul>

Other people's pages running PHPHP:

<ul>
<li><a target=_blank href='http://www.buju.de'>Bundesjugendfestival</a>
<li><a target=_blank href='http://www.et1.tu-harburg.de'>http://www.et1.tu-harburg.de</a>
<li><a target=_blank href='http://www.terhaseborg.de'>http://www.terhaseborg.de</a>
<li><a target=_blank href='http://www.terhaseborg.com'>http://www.terhaseborg.com</a>
<li><a target=_blank href='http://www.firstbaptistchurch.de'>http://www.firstbaptistchurch.de</a>
<li><a target=_blank href='http://www.oncken-gemeinde.de'>http://www.oncken-gemeinde.de</a>
<li><a target=_blank href='http://www.tet.tu-harburg.de'>http://www.tet.tu-harburg.de</a>
<li><a target=_blank href=''></a>

</ul>

<p>There are more, but they haven't told me yet. I also know of several
people using PHPHP (or derived versions) for their internal pages.