XINA is a software that offers a web-based solution for database management and content management purposes. With XINA, users can easily organize and maintain their data and content online.
With XINA, users can create basic web databases by executing tasks such as table creation, deletion, editing of structure, report design, calendar output for dates, simple, multi-table, and advanced search, and even record entry, deletion, and editing. Additionally, XINA has pre-designed forms for data entry and the ability to generate dynamic entry forms using its database structure. Users can also create multi-page form applications with conditional movement and confirmation pages.
XINA supports relational databases, including lookups for form generation, linked tables, detail tables, and value lists for menus, radio buttons, and checkboxes. Its value lists are dynamic, based on table records, or static, defined in the configuration. On top of that, XINA's authentication and authorization protect back-end interface and allow users to protect their whole site if needed. Different user types, such as superuser, editor, and user, also determine access to specific applications like table editing.
XINA also features document management with fields for holding files and the ability to search content of linked files, even binary files like .doc, .xls, or .pdf. Furthermore, its web content management features are impressive, enabling users to add sections and subsections at will, have dynamic navigation bars, implement news article format, discussions off of articles, and full page format like basic web pages.
XINA supports logging actions such as login, entry, and edit, and messaging actions that can be linked to email messages to a specified recipient. Its templates are adjustable to its configurable stylesheets for web content and database output. Finally, XINA has an easy table data import and export that supports delimiter format.
To use XINA, you need to control and own an HTML and CGI-bin directory with root access and/or telnet/SSH access, use Perl 5.6, and have MySQL (3.x) or PostgreSQL (7.x) and the necessary Perl modules, including CGI.pm, DBI, DBD:mysql or DBD:pgsql, File::Slurp, HTML::CalendarMonthSimple, Fcntl, Date::Calc, Statistics::Descriptive, XML::RSS, and LWP::Simple.
In conclusion, XINA is ideal for those who require a comprehensive web database and content management solution. Its features are vast and quick to navigate, and it is easy to install.
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