Welcome to Creative Program Designers

Email - cprogramdesigners at CreativeProgramDesigners dot com
Phone - 954-946-1500 (Owner Bob Hoffman)

A new application, code named 'Big Kahuna,' is soon to be released.

Big Kahuna is slated to be a free, GPL licensed, enterprise level, open source LAMP web application.

Live beta testing in about one month (August 20th) with a live release date around September 20th, 2009. Beta testers are encouraged to contact Bob at the email address listed at the top of this page.

Kahuna 'Core System'

Admin: Almost all of the features listed below can be fine tuned or turned off/on by the admin as per individual needs. Sophisticated yet easy to use interface handles events, logs, history, and individual/mass alterations of settings. Admin is a separate program.

Authentication and error management: This engine will handle the registration, log in, and 'lost password' functionality. It will also handle database connections and all error handling for php, mysql, and apache error pages. Session handling is also a part of the main engine.

Users system: Users have different levels overall, or individually, affecting different modules. Full admin customization of users.

Security Engine: This is built into the core and is quite amazing in its complexity and ease of use. It will handle all security for your custom applications too. All security features are customizable and can be shut off or on at will by admin.

'Some' of the security features:

• Recycle Bin - deleted data is never 'cannot be undone'
• Shadow Data - edited data will be shadowed in the database and not overwritten
• Restore - Using the shadow data allows restoration to a previous state for data
• Red Flag - Artificial Intelligence module to protect every page from hackers, spammers, bots, and any kind of intrusion. Self learning
• Form Protector - Will protect against automated use and in conjunction with Red Flag will stop intrusions. Logs all form data for analysis
• Bandwidth/resource Protector - stops or deprecates display of data according to 'Red Flag' instructions, thus saving resources and bandwidth.
• Lockout - Red Flag analyzes use and decides a user or admin account has been compromised. It will do lockout of user to actual shutdown of application.

Optimization Engine: Fine tuned to be low on resource use, bandwidth, and file overload.

Optimization Features:

• Bandwidth Protector - system will lower resource and bandwidth use for anything malicious, banned, or flagged as such.
• White Hat cloaking - Ability to present limited html but full text versions of pages for individual bots or user types per Red Flag and Bandwidth Protector
• Memory Tables - Using HEAP memory tables for the Security system allows quick low resource access to deal with the hackers.
• File watch - Uploaded files are limited to a certain number per directory and a limited number of sub directories to ensure speed of access.
• File caching - To lower almost all resources in presenting dynamic data, cache built when data is changed by admin or user.

Disabilities: Bandwidth Protector and Red Flag work together to present pages for those using browsers made for vision challenged users.

Modification of HTML / Templates: The system uses function calls to display data on pages. This allows almost complete autonomy to a web designer to make any template system desired. Other than determining the placement of the function calls and original includes for engine, a web page requires no coding experience at all.

Modification of Code: The engine core and each module will have a custom code page in the backend. Any functions that need to be altered are instead copy/pasted into the correct custom code page and then altered. This altered code will over ride the existing function and allow for easy modification. Rarely, if ever, will a modifier need to touch core or module existing code.

Updating, Upgrading: When upgrading, only the core and module 'code' files are given out. This means the html and custom code written by the webmaster is NOT overwritten and in many cases not even affected at all. Major upgrades may cause some issues, but each module can be turned off / on by admin as needed with no interruption for the other modules or core.

First Live Features:

• Core engine with user, security, etc.
• Forums module
• blogs/news module with integration of forums module

Other modules coming over the next six months after release

• Wiki builder
• On site advertisement system
• Webmaster tools for onsite and offsite presentations
• E-commerce module
• Customer Relation Management solution
• Classifieds
• MLS
• NewsWire push/pull