News

V1.3 July 2006

corrects some security flaws
With this new version, the database has been modified. If you update from previous versions, you must use the updatedatabase12to13.php program
implements multi-basket feature
implement basket sharing (e.g., several users can share a basket to work simultaneously on a paper bibliography)

V1.2 May 2006

The left menu was replaced by a dynamic javascript menu on top of the screen. This does not work with internet explorer, but works fine with most other navigators (such as firefox, Safari, ...)
The design has been heavily enhanced (css style sheets)
The database display and management have been heavily enhanced
A new forum has been opened in order to discuss about the software (see the link in the help menu)
Bugs can now be reported in the forum or in the bugtrack soft (see the link in the Help menu)

V1.1 February 2005

call to mysql_real_escape adapted to previous versions of PHP (requires a connection to the database)
user rights management: read or read-write rights (useful to restrict the database access to read-only for a defined user)
citation colors explained in the main menu

V1.0 December 2004

Presentation

This little project was designed in order to fulfill a particular need: to share bibliography information inside a single research team. As such, it provides only the functionalities required to attain this goal. In particular, it does not aim to be available via internet (e.g., no strong user authentification is implemented), but on a private HTTP server.

Many formats are currently available to define citations: each system and tool uses its own format, that can be compatible or incompatible with others. We decide to use a unique format with all the tools: a mysql bibtex database. It can be used from any tool (Word, Openoffice, and so on). The bibtex citations are also stored in a MySql database, and the files attached to these citations are stored on the disk, so that they can be available via HTTP requests.

But sharing does not imply losing interest on particular papers, and each user should be able to manage individually its own basket, containing the papers it considers to be important for his own work. This is, of course, implemented in this software.

The decision of using a new software is driven by a compatibility with previous databases. In this way, the software is able to import bibtex files, as well as the files attached to the citations. We consider there are a lot of tools that can convert various formats to bibtex, and thus bibtex is a good choice as an unique format.

Requirements

The software requires a web server supporting PHP 4 or later (it works with PHP 5) and MySql (4 or later). It has been tested on apache 2, PHP 4 and MySql 4.1. It should also work on IIS with PHP and MySql as well.

Contact

If you have any suggestion, bug, improvements to submit, please contact .

Related Projects

This project uses the Bibtex Parse project to parse the bibtex files (see links section).

License

This software is distributed under the GNU GPL Licence. You are thus free to edit it, modify it or use it in your own project. I would however be happy to know of any extension you would produce.