Features

CmFive Features

The main features of CmFive are

• Written in PHP, the most used programming language of the web.
• Modular Architecture
• System Modules
• Custom Modules
• Model, View and Controller architecture
• Object-Relational framework
• Global layout
• Easy to use Html helper library
• Built-in core functionality
• Role Based Access Control
• Roles, Users, Groups
• Help System
• Fulltext Search
• Task Tracking and Custom Workflows
• Internal Messaging and Notifications
• Report Builder
• Wiki
• Auditing
• Pragmatic mix of function library, file naming conventions and OOP
• Aspect Oriented Programming Concepts
• For storing object modification data
• For creating fulltext index entry for objects
• For accessing objects via RESTful URIs
• Loose Coupling via Listeners and Hooks

For Developers

• Rapid Application Development
• MVC framework with models, controllers (actions), templates, layouts, partials
• Modular architecture with per module configuration, sub modules
• Loose coupling
• Automatic url routing
• Pre-listeners, post-listeners
• Hooks
• Object-Relational database abstraction with out of the box CRUD operations
• Aspect-Oriented design for
• search indexing
• logging
• versioning
• RBAC (Role based access control) on a per module level
• HTML utility library for rapid creation of forms, pagination, etc.
• Built in Help System
• Help files per module
• Context sensitive automatic display of help document
• Help content can have sections which only display for certain user groups
• Built in Full-Text Search
• Every object can be indexed with one line of code
• Universal search index and retrieval mechanism
• Works on shared hosts, no external service required
• Build in REST API
• Every object can be exposed via RESTful API
• Can be fine tuned via configuration file
• Web Security
• CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) detection
• Automatic value sanitising against SQL injection
• Salted passwords
• Models can store data using AES encryption in the database
• Database Migrations using Phinx
• Comprehensive Unit and Acceptance tests
• Install Wizard
• Open source GPL license
• Community development on github

For Business Analysts / Power Users / Application Administrators

• Users and Contacts
• Groups of users
• Role based access control
• Automatic per action
• $user->hasRole() for fine grained control
• Groups have roles, group members inherit those roles
• Roles are functions
• Notifications and Inbox
• Send internal notifications to users
• Inbox with archiving
• Send internal messages between users
• Email notifications
• Reporting
• Create reports in SQL
• Make report available to group of users (or groups)
• View report as html table, csv, pdf, or xml
• Create feed url for report
• Mail Templates
• Templates for emails, invoices, forms, etc.
• Uses TWIG and accepts json data
• Wiki