1. Andrew Deason, Eric Harmon, Bryan Rau-Jacobs, Andrew Smith
Development of a Object-Oriented Module-based Extensible Student Intranet Application in PHP 5
Andrew Deason, Eric Harmon, Bryan Rau-Jacobs, Andrew Smith

2. Old Intranet Used for students to sign up for 8th period activities
Web application written in PHP
Authenticates against the school Novell system
Very difficult to extend or add new features to

3. Iodine Need a new platform for developing new features and fixing bugs
Implements several ideas in Object-Oriented programming and collaborative development
LAMP-like server setup
Linux operating system
Apache2 web server
MySQL database
PHP5 programming language.
Smarty template system

4. Structure PHP XHTML CSS Javascript “AJAX” Smarty template engine
Object Oriented Code
Version Control Systems

5. Timeline Winter 2004 – Iodine rewrite idea formulated
Spring 2005 – Initial implementations written, Core, Display
June 2005 – Program skeleton is complete
Summer 2005 – Program interface is rapidly developed, beginning to reflect its final appearance
September 2005 – Rapid progression of modules as framework is nearly complete.
October 2005 – More abstracted authentication setup implemented
November 2005 – Scheduling, user group management
December 2005 – Tried speed tests and optimizations
January 2006 – Replaced plain-text password cache

6. Structure Processing through the 'core' module
Gives control of processing to the Display module
Loads all of the Intraboxes
Displays the pane content that the user requested
Modules dynamically loaded on demand

7. Benchmarks
Iodine much faster than Intranet

8. Learn'd Large projects can be hard to manage
Version control systems rock
Implementing a proper separation of display and core is extremely vital
Communication is essential