Mangox portal Control Panel rebuild

Mangox portal is an international closed-community portal with access to lojality programs etc. Rebuild of its Control Panel required design and construction of:

• user access control system (ACL) to limit access to selected parts of application with regard to Administrator granted priviliedges
• time verification of membership payments
• rebiuld of website graphics (CSS)
• management system for panel components
• newsletter system for sending mail to registered users
• system for managing newsletter recipients and groups of recipients

Control Panel utilises company owned portal system (CMS), enriched with new components or modules when needed. One of such a components was mentioned above newsletter. For marketing purposes it had to be simple yet effective with content management and multi language enabled. To acquire this goal I used simple yet powerfull rich text editor - TinyMCE. The only way to do this, was to comply with web standards. Main goal was to send mail in HTML/plain text formats, to allow user to choose between nice look of HTML and clear message from plain text. Message created with help of rich text editor was then simplified within a script with regular expressions. Message was able to carry images. Portal administrator was able to pick time to start delivery of all messages (about 10 000 recipients), batch size and pause between the batches. This allowed to maximize mail server utilisation while the server would be idle (usually at night).

Technologies used in this project:

• PHP5
• Apache 2
• CRON
• Postfix
• MySQL
• CSS 2
• HTML
• regular expressions (regExp)
• simple control panel