OpenCORE

OpenCORE is a collection of collaboration utilities inspired by and integrating elements of the KARL Project.

Functionality

Database bootstrapping support

Allows for first time initialisation of new databases and populates them with data, users and permissions.

Logging utilities

Helpers for logging data coming from one or more application instance.

Password Gateway middleware

Restrict user access to view the site by challenging all requests with an input requiring a generic password. This is stored as a cookie on the user machine to prevent the need to input this for each request.

Content model definitions

Model definitions for various content types relating to; attachments, blogs, cataloging and indexing, commenting, syndication feeds and caching, community frameworks, file and image uploads, forums, "liking" content, static pages, user profiles, user to user messaging, content ordering, users and profiles.

Command-line scripting

Utities for writing console scripts for managing the application database as well as a number of useful scripts covering; database evolution (migration), admin user management, catalog indexing and reindexing, renaming users and content.

Security

Policy and definitions for user roles and permissions for certain actions on the system.

Tagging

Tools and utilities for managing and maintaining tags on content within the system.

Testing

Helper functions and utilities for unit testing elements of the application.

Utilities

Utilities around sending email, pagination and batching, embedding content, image processing, syndication feed generation and content searching.

Views

Generic views and templates to manage data objects and provide basic site structure.

JSON/JSONP API

Support for formatted data structures to be provided per content type on data.json[p] and list.json[p] urls.