• Placing content with help of page components (like playing with building bricks)
• Pageversion with possibility to programm automatic activation
• Multilingual pages (with one lead language)
• Access of pages controllable due to groups, rights & roles
• Finding your pages by fulltext searching the content

• Editing page independent re-usable content
• Organizing and editing content as you would do with a cardbox, convenient for many users
• Highly customizable form entry masks
  • over 30 form_xy-methods to customize your editing forms (text fields, text areas, richtext, html, selections, drag & drop sorting, image selections …)
  • customization by inheriting methods for Editing, Update, Displayment and changing the default behaviours
    • personalized user feedback
    • dynamic adaption of the entry form …
• Access of content controllable with rights & roles and individual implementation of access filters
• Finding your content by fulltext searching
• Snapshots & Rollback

• Ease of access through grouping, individual dynamic folder structure, keywords and fulltext search
• Managing of versions
  • Imageversion for different formats (zoom, teaser, original)
  • historic versioning to keep track of changes
• Online Image Editing
• Drag & Drop Upload
• Snapshosts & Rollback
• Access on assets controllable due to groups, rights & roles

• integrated task management
• dynamic priorization following the ABCD Eisenhower principle
• connecting tickets to pages, content records, media assets

• Users & Roles
• Rebuilding Indexes
• Batch deletions
• Pagewizard for mass page creation

• built-in page impression counting and statistical analyzing

• no restrictions concerning your template composition, every imaginable HTML/XML/TXT-structure possible …
• integration of the Smarty Template Engine
• Fragment caching (Page caching with possibility to exclude areas)

• encapsulated request access, smartURL feature for easy implementation of nice & neat SEO urls
• page scripts
• page variables
• Includes
  • smartActions
  • Include Caching
  • Integration of Smarty Template Engine
• Special Properties (Title, Keywords, Quickfinder)
• page groups

• PhenotypePeer class for easy retrieval of content records
• highly customizable (see above)
• Mapping properties to key fields for fast database access
• Mapping properties to external tables (Datatables)
• Skins / Contentcache

• Guided Development within Config Mode
• Everytime great overview on your application.
• Importing and Exporting components as xml packages
• cleanup tool

• Various on demand caching mechanisms
  • Caching of pages with individual times per page
  • Include Caching (for url dependent caching of functionalities)
  • Data objects for temporary storage of calculations
• all helper functions (NavigationHelper, URLHelper …) use (system) data objects internally for caching
• Automatic measuring of page build times, query execution times to help you optimizing your application performance

• Errors and Exceptions are getting caught from Phenotype resulting in a very informative debug printout
  • Backtrace (with Syntax Highlighting)
  • SQL Backlog
  • Context information (Requests, Timinigs, Output Buffer)
  • PHP Hints (Notices, Warnings)
• central logging facility
  • file based logging
  • logging to the firebug console (phpfire)

• Uniform data model for all phenotype applications
• Lot’s of information about the application itself is stored into the database when configuring it within config mode
• SQL Builder class for secure inserts

• uniform application composition (Folder structure and file naming conventions)
• Customizable with preferences.xml
• Expandable through dynamic inheritage

• Multilinguistic pages with one lead language
• Multilingualism configurable per page group
• Localized backend (currently german/english)

• Getters, Setters, Validators
• Integration of PHPIDS (Intrusion Detection System) Security Layer

• Action classes for recurring activites (intended for crontab usage)

• third xml-based general page view mode (1. Standard, 2. Print/AJAX, 3. XML)

If you’re new to Phenotype we recommend to start with the more introductive general documentation.