Appendix F. Undocumented features

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Hidden features in the distributionkit
Bugmail
Clanmail
Crawler
HTML_static
META Searchengine
Site Age
Avantgo

Hidden features in the distributionkit

There have always been some PHP scripts that were part of the distributionkit but that were never used by any of the members of the Development Team. So, they are not part of any explanation in the previous chapters. In this appendex, we decided to shine some small lights on this hidden features because they may be valuable for you in certain situations. You should consider these scripts AS IS software. You are free to ask questions about them in the forums, but we do not guarantee any help for them.

Bugmail

The script bugmail.php shows an entry form that can be used by your visitors to enter bugreports about...., well probably about your site. The form is sent through email to the administrator's mailbox.

Clanmail

I'm not a gamer, but I think the script clanmail.php is a remainder of an ancient gaming site. Just like the bugmail script, it shows an entry form to the visitor where he/she can enter the field and after submission of the form, the contents are sent by email to the administrator's mailbox. You don't have to be a gamer to use this, you can easily use this script as a working framework for any subscription form that you might need for your community site.

Crawler

The script crawler.php provides you with some search features in your website. It's very look-a-like to the official search script.

HTML_static

The script HTML_static.php let you include static HTML pages to be shown inside your MPN site. It's an example script. You need to adapt it to make it fit for your website.

META Searchengine

The script meta.php is a nice script that gives a user the option to submit a search to several external search engines so that it actually works as a Meta Search Engine inside your own website.

Site Age

The script siteage.php is a small gimmick that shows the age of your website to the visitor. Ofcourse, it calculates from a startdate that was entered by you, so it's easy to cheat!

Avantgo

The script avantgo.php serves the newest news item in PDA format. When you want to serve your news items to you PDA, provide your users with link to this script.