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Parent Categories:
° Deprecated version 4
° Brain Annex Plugins (v. 4)
° Content Management (v. 4)
° Databases (v. 4)
° Login Management (v. 4)
° pForce PHP Web Framework
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A:
♦ Accounts, Users and Permissions (v. 4)
B:
♦ BRAIN ANNEX
♦ Brain Annex Plugins (v. 4)
C:
♦ Content Management (v. 4)
♦ cookies
D:
♦ Databases (v. 4)
♦ dbasePDO
♦ Deprecated version 4
♦ directedGraphs
♦ Documentation
F:
♦ formBuilder
L:
♦ logging
♦ Login Management (v. 4)
O:
♦ OVERVIEW of old v. 4
P:
♦ parameterValidation
♦ pForce PHP Web Framework
♦ Programmer's Guide
S:
♦ Screen shots
♦ siteAuth
♦ siteMembership
T:
♦ Technical Overview (v. 4)
♦ templateEvaluator
♦ TeX for Equation formatting
U:
♦ uploader
♦ Usage Examples and Screenshots for Power Users
♦ User's Guide
V:
♦ Versions & Change Log
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Technical Overview (v. 4) (Read-only mode; publicly-viewable page)
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IMPORTANT :
this documentation is for the "Classic" (PHP-based) version 4 of Brain Annex. As of version 5, released in Beta in Dec. 2021, the internals of Brain Annex have been completely overhauled to a Python/Neo4j implementation. Details
However, the UI is still generally-recognizable from what was shown in the Screen shots section and in the following 2 short intro videos:
- Overview of Brain Annex , for the "classic v. 4" (4 min)
- Basic Usage for Power Users , for the "classic v. 4" (11 min)
The Underlying Technologies (for the "classic" version 4 of Brain Annex)
General:
- Apache Web Server (usually on Linux systems, but can also be run on Windows)
- MySQL (should be easily adaptable to use other databases; all database interaction goes through the "dbasePDO" module)
- Semantic technology (A built-in Triplestore database, and a built-in module to manage Directed Acyclic Graphs)
- PHP 7.2
- HTML5
- JavaScript / Vue
- CSS
- SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
- Browser (we test on Firefox and Chrome, and to a much small extent on Opera)
- HTTPS
- OS (for server: Linux or Windows ; for client: any OS that can run a major browser)
Software from the Open-Source Community:
- Awesomeplete (auto-complete in search boxes)
- Clipboard.js (copying to clipboard)
- CK Editor (formatted text editor)
- Dragscroll
- Dropzone (for uploads)
- PDF Parser
- SVG-Edit (editor for vector-based graphic illustrations)
Open-Source Modules Developed by the Brain Annex Project:
NOTE - as of v. 4, many of these modules are now part of the PHP web framework pForce
- Categories
- cookies
- dbasePDO
- dbaseRestricted
- formBuilder
- logging
- messages
- navbar
- pageBuilder
- parameterValidation
- siteAuth
- submitForm
- Table Framework
- (plus numerous plugins for various Content Types)
NOTE: The installable BrainAnnex is self-contained, with no external dependencies. You only need a bare-bone shared webhost with PHP 7.2 and MySQL.
BrainAnnex is in the process of being released into GitHub open-source repositories; the release of the pForce framework is complete, but the release of the rest of Brain Annex has been suspended in anticipation of the overhauled version 5, based on a completely-different technology stack (details)
