Vinu Thomas points out a CMS project over on the Google Summer of Code that's looking to make administering the content/functionality of the site simple and easy - the Jaws Project.

Jaws is a Framework and Content Management System for building dynamic web sites. It aims to be User Friendly giving ease of use and lots of ways to customize web sites, but at the same time is Developer Friendly, it offers a simple and powerful framework to hack your own modules.

As Vinu notes, the project also uses some Ajax functionality to help make things more responsive and easier to work with. Check out some screenshots of the project to get a feel for what all it includes so far or just download it now and try it out yourself.

Vinu Thomas points out a CMS project over on the Google Summer of Code that's looking to make administering the content/functionality of the site simple and easy - the Jaws Project.

Jaws is a Framework and Content Management System for building dynamic web sites. It aims to be User Friendly giving ease of use and lots of ways to customize web sites, but at the same time is Developer Friendly, it offers a simple and powerful framework to hack your own modules.

As Vinu notes, the project also uses some Ajax functionality to help make things more responsive and easier to work with. Check out some screenshots of the project to get a feel for what all it includes so far or just download it now and try it out yourself.

The PHP.net site has made the official announcement of the PHP projects involved with this year's Google Summer of Code:

The PHP team is once again proud to participate in the Google Summer of Code. Seven students will "flip bits instead of burgers" this summer:

On the list this year are:

• LiveDocs - mentor Michael Wallner, student Hannes Magnusson
• The PHP Interpreter - mentor Derick Rethans, student David Wang
• XDebug - mentor Derick Rethans, student Adam Harvey
• Doctrine - mentor Lukas Smith, student Konsta Vesterinen
• PHPUnit - mentor Sebastian Bergmann, student Mike Lewis
• MDB2_Schema - mentor Lukas Smith, student Igor Feghali
• Jaws - mentor David Coallier, student Nicolas Bérard-Nault

Also, be sure to check out some of the other organizations and students participating on the Summer of Code website.

The PHP.net site has made the official announcement of the PHP projects involved with this year's Google Summer of Code:

The PHP team is once again proud to participate in the Google Summer of Code. Seven students will "flip bits instead of burgers" this summer:

On the list this year are:

• LiveDocs - mentor Michael Wallner, student Hannes Magnusson
• The PHP Interpreter - mentor Derick Rethans, student David Wang
• XDebug - mentor Derick Rethans, student Adam Harvey
• Doctrine - mentor Lukas Smith, student Konsta Vesterinen
• PHPUnit - mentor Sebastian Bergmann, student Mike Lewis
• MDB2_Schema - mentor Lukas Smith, student Igor Feghali
• Jaws - mentor David Coallier, student Nicolas Bérard-Nault

Also, be sure to check out some of the other organizations and students participating on the Summer of Code website.

Several PHP proposals made it into this year's Google Summer of Code and, in a new post today, David Coallier points out one specifically that he's being a mentor for - a "revamp the internals of Jaws and migrate it from PHP 4 to PHP 6".

That's right, the first open source framework using PHP6 is going to be developed this summer to help the main development of PHP6. I am glad to be the mentor of this very interesting project and looking forward in getting many bug reports, use cases, fixing help, debugging for php6.

The project, being created by Nicolas Bérard-Nault will be working through the following:

• E_STRICT compliance
• the systematic use of real object programming
• Unicode character support
• the transparent use of different database types
• the use of the most current features available in PECL and PEAR

...and that's just the tip of the iceberg. It will be broken up into three phases to make things a bit easier: planning the new internals, actual development, and testing the work that's been done.

Several PHP proposals made it into this year's Google Summer of Code and, in a new post today, David Coallier points out one specifically that he's being a mentor for - a "revamp the internals of Jaws and migrate it from PHP 4 to PHP 6".

That's right, the first open source framework using PHP6 is going to be developed this summer to help the main development of PHP6. I am glad to be the mentor of this very interesting project and looking forward in getting many bug reports, use cases, fixing help, debugging for php6.

The project, being created by Nicolas Bérard-Nault will be working through the following:

• E_STRICT compliance
• the systematic use of real object programming
• Unicode character support
• the transparent use of different database types
• the use of the most current features available in PECL and PEAR

...and that's just the tip of the iceberg. It will be broken up into three phases to make things a bit easier: planning the new internals, actual development, and testing the work that's been done.