6 Diogenes is a content management system that allows you to quickly create and
7 host web sites for communities. It was written by the Polytechnique.org
8 team. More information can be found on the Diogenes project page :
10 http://opensource.polytechnique.org/diogenes/
12 It is released under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL) version 2. The
13 full text of this license can be found in the COPYING file included in this
17 DOCUMENTATION & INSTALLATION
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20 The documentation for Diogenes, including installation instructions can
23 http://doc.polytechnique.org/diogenes/
29 Diogenes provides several means of customising its look and behaviour.
33 The first thing you can modify is Diogenes's configuration file called
34 "diogenes.config.inc.php". To have a list of the values you can assign, take a
35 look at the file called "diogenes.globals.inc.php".
37 * SUBCLASSING DIOGENES'S CLASSES
39 Diogenes is written in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), and it is possible to
40 specify the classes to use from the configuration file. For instance, if you
41 want to change the look and/or behaviour of Diogenes's toplevel pages you would :
43 - create a class called "CustomToplevel" for instance, which derives from
44 "DiogenesToplevel". Let us say this class is stored in a file called
45 "custom.toplevel.inc.php".
47 - include "custom.toplevel.inc.php" from your configuration file like this :
49 require_once 'custom.toplevel.inc.php';
51 - tell Diogenes to use your CustomToplevel class to display toplevel pages by
52 setting the following in your configuration file :
54 $globals->toplevel = "CustomToplevel";