PT News - Plain Text Files News
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Author:          Stoyan Zhekov <mailto:sto@openbg.net>
Current Version: 1.7.9
Release Date:    21-Sep-2006
Website URL:     http://www.openbg.net/ptsite/

WHAT IS THIS?
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PT News is simple news system, that use plain text files for storing data. 
This is lite solution for sites without SQL database support (like most
free webspace providers). Whole system is written in PHP (PHP3 and PHP4 
support). 
If you have SQL database maybe is better to choice other news system - 
for example PHP-Nuke ( http://linuxpreview.org/ ) or
ThatPHPWare ( http://atthat.com/ ). If you want complete PHP Portal 
(multiple user accounts, themes support, news with themes etc), without 
SQL backend (storing data in plain text) try SIPS 
( http://sips.sourceforge.net ) by haakon ( mailto:haakon@quit.net ) - 
GREAT portal system. I like it. When I start writting PT News, I wanted 
just to put news on some of my web pages. So I don't needed user accounts, 
login etc. PT News is for this - just simple news system for displaying 
and managing short news -annoncement, change logs etc.

LICENSE
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The license is smileware ;0). If you like this system, just send me email 
on
Address: mailto:sto@openbg.net.
with
Subject: PT News 
and
Contents: "Thanx ;0)" 

FEATURES
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* Use plain text files for storing data 
* Small - only one include file (one more include file for admin interface)
* Web Administration - create, delete and edit news
* Password protected admin page
* Topics support - display news only for selected topic 
* Images for topics
* Support for themes in look 
* Export news in RSS file 
* Split news in pages (prev/next/page_number support)
* Timezones for displaying dates
* Searching news by keywords
* Multi-languages support
* From v1.7.4 working with several news directories 

INSTALLATION AND USAGE
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Read INSTALL file for details.


Enjoy!
