methodica message feeder (MMF) software 
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MMF is a web-based application that supports provisioning and 
administering message feeds in the formats RSS, ATOM, and HTML. 

A web based online editor (mmf/Editor) allows for creating and 
editing feeds and messages in a comfortable way from everywhere 
within the internet or an intranet. 

No client side software must be installed. Standard web browsers 
are sufficient. 

An e-mail importer mmf/MPump, and a backup / restore utility are 
included. 

Sample code shows how to embed feeds into your own HTML web 
pages. 

The MMF components currently are available in English and German. 
The feed provider and editor components, and the database 
support international character sets (Unicode) such as Japanese, 
Chines, Hindi, Arabic (incl. right-to-left), etc. 



Installation 
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The application is written in PHP as an extension of a web server. 
It uses a database to store the feed and message data. Web server 
and database (MySQL) are pre-requisites, and are not enclosed in 
the MMF software. 

MMF files are copied to a sub-directory of the web server root 
directory. They can be downloaded as archves for different 
operating systems. A setup component mmf/Setup helps the admi-
nistrator to set up the database and configure the application. 

MMF modules are loaded by loader modules. Loader modules are 
available for most operating systems (e.g. Unix, Linux, Windows). 


Documentation 
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This documentation is included: 

Find the English variant in path /mmfeed_path/admin/doc/en: 
- administrator_guide.pdf 
  (pre-requisites, application installation and configuration), 
- user_guide.pdf 
  (for the feed author / editor), 
- license_agreement.pdf 
  (software license agreement). 

Find the German variant in path /mmfeed_path/admin/doc/de. 
The file names are the same as the English variant. 


Licenses 
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To run the application the software and a license file is 
necessary. These types of licenses are available: 
- evaluation license, 
- host license (one host, e.g. www.yourdomain.tld), 
- domain licnese (all hosts of one domain, e.g. *.yourdomain.tld), 
- site license (all hosts of all domains of an enterprise or 
  organisation). 

Besides the evaluation license there are commercial and non-
commercial license variants available. The same software may be 
used together with all license types and variants. 


Legal 
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See the software license agreement included. 


2010-08-10, methodica.ch
