Brain Annex is built on a PHP Web Framework called pForce.

It's a thin Web Framework for PHP (including site logins) for those who don't want to over-engineer (nor under-engineer) their web apps.

Use only what you need. It doesn't twist your arm to program your web app in any particular way!

pForce: May the PHP Force be with you!

The pForce Framework was originally developed as part of the "Brain Annex" project, but is now independent of it.

This framework has been in active, continuous use on multiple web apps for years - some components for about a decade - and has been released as Open Source in Oct. 2019 as version 4.0

It is based, and is being tested on, PHP 7.2  (but it has also been used with PHP 5.6)

It is very modular, and it currently contains 10 components, with no external dependencies.

NOTE: the release of the pForce framework to Open Source is the first step towards the promised complete release to open source of the Knowledge & Media Management web app Brain Annex (https://brainannex.org) As of version 4.0, pForce has an independent life from Brain Annex, but continues to be maintained and expanded by the Brain Annex project.

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Modules in the pForce Web Framework

10 Components as of the current version (4.0).  They may be used independently, provided all dependencies are satisfied.  There are no external dependencies.

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cookies

Static class to handle COOKIES 
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dbasePDO

Class for DATABASE-INTERFACE using the PDO functions   
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directedGraphs

Class to implement a Traversable Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), consisting of Nodes and Directional Edges between 2 Node.
Each node can carry a set of user-defined "semantics" (such as "name" and "remarks"); likewise for each edges (for example "childSequenceNo") 
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formBuilder

Classes to easily build HTML forms, as well as "Control Panels" ("Dashboards") consisting of a table of such forms (each of which is referred to as a "pane")
2 CLASSES:  "controlPanel" and "formBuilder" 
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logging

Class to log SYSTEM MESSAGES (such as alerts or diagnostics) into a text file or an HTML file
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parameterValidation

Class with static functions for PARAMETER VALIDATION
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siteAuth

Class for SITE USER AUTHENTICATION, incl. login/logout management.
Multiple independent websites are supported.
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siteMembership

Class for the management of generic user accounts on a site: the underlying database table could have more fields, used by other more site-specific modules
Based on the entity "User-access ID" : identifying a particular membership for some user
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templateEvaluator

Class for Template Evaluation: bare-bones version of the Python library "Jinja"
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uploader

Class to facilitate File Uploads
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pForce Versions and Change Log

Important: pForce is no longer actively supported, except for bugfixes.   The parent project, Brain Annex, is being ported to python/Flask (details)

4.2  (Apr. 17,  2020)

• In class  directedGraph , added public method numberParents($nodeID)

4.1  (Dec. 13,  2019)

• In class dbasePDO, the 2nd argument of the method countRecords is now optional
• Hotfix to bug in the  addNewAccount  method of the   siteMembership  class, in file  siteMembership/siteMembership.php

4.0.1  (Oct. 4,  2019)

• Hotfix to bug in the pdo_num_rows method of class dbasePDO, and tweaks to the logging class

4.0  (Oct. 1,  2019)

• Initial Release to Open Source, and start of an independent existance from the Brain Annex project

3.0  (June 14,  2018)

• Released as a set of components inside the Brain Annex web app

2.0  (Sep. 29,  2017)

• Released as a set of components inside the Brain Annex web app

1.0  (June 4,  2015)

• Released as a set of components inside the Brain Annex web app

NOTE: several modules that eventually became part of the pForce Framework had been developed years before, for various web sites.  They got incorporated into the new Brain Annex web app as of v. 1.0