reseller and posting guidelines?

Poster: lsalsich
Dated: Wednesday May 10 2006 - 13:41:06 BST

Hi All,

I am working on the final stages of development for a PHP/MySQL admin system for Milonic Menu and have a few questions regarding the proper 'etiquette’ for posting information regarding products that work WITH Milonic. I don’t want to do anything that is uncool (although I don’t think I would – just checking in).

My product has taken a ton of time in development and will be ‘commercial’ in nature (but less than $30.00 per purchase) and will work on top of the Milonic menu code – simply acting as a web-based GUI for managing the menu structure, style, items, etc. I will be a registered 'reseller' of Milonic as well - if that matters.

When this product is ready for Beta testing and (soon) purchase, would it be seen as a problem for me to post a comment about it and how to locate it? If so, I will respect that completely.

Anyone have thoughts on this?

Thanks,

Luke

Poster: John
Dated: Wednesday May 10 2006 - 14:59:40 BST

I have asked Andy to respond to this for you.

Poster: lsalsich
Dated: Wednesday May 10 2006 - 15:04:27 BST

Thanks, John.

Poster: Andy
Dated: Wednesday May 10 2006 - 18:10:13 BST

Not sure what you are asking here, can you please elaborate a little?

I'm sure we can work something out.

Poster: lsalsich
Dated: Wednesday May 10 2006 - 18:17:58 BST

Hey Andy,

What I'm asking is this:

when I've completed my menu admin project (this month), can I post about it here in these forums without violating the forum rules?

I consider my menu admin system to be one that will compliment Milonic and hopefully help others like myself who need something like this. But, since I will be charging a small fee for the application I wanted to ask if my posting about it would be considered 'advertising' or some other form of unwanted posting.

That's it, really.

thanks,

Luke

Poster: Andy
Dated: Wednesday May 10 2006 - 18:20:13 BST

Oh I see, no that would be fine - It ultimately helps everybody on here so it's OK by me.

As long as you don't sell the menu with your product (unless it's a license copy of the menu), we don't have an issue........That's not what you are planning is it?

Poster: lsalsich
Dated: Wednesday May 10 2006 - 18:30:45 BST

Thanks Andy.

Well, the admin application only builds on Milonic - it doesn't alter the source code at all, so your licensing system would remain untouched. So no, I would only be selling the application that administers the Milonic system. And, that would be clear in my documentation, etc.

I was looking at becoming a 'reseller' so I could offer licensed copies of Milonic as well as my application in one download. Is that still an option?

Luke

Poster: Andy
Dated: Wednesday May 10 2006 - 18:33:12 BST



No Problem!!!



Yup, no problem, we'll sort something out for you

Poster: lsalsich
Dated: Wednesday May 10 2006 - 18:56:13 BST

Sounds good, Andy. I'll be in touch about the licensing.

I'll also post more info on the appllication and a link to a demo when it's done. Should be this month.

Luke

Poster: Migru
Dated: Wednesday May 10 2006 - 19:09:29 BST



is it something like a menu builder, so competitive to the menu builder announced here:

http://www.milonic.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=13&sid=ed969539c46fa00d5b71d20078ca699f


(..........that was in Nov, 2005)

Michael

Poster: Andy
Dated: Wednesday May 10 2006 - 19:13:06 BST

Yup I know - I now spend all of my time doing tech support - can you imagine how frustrating this is?

I'm a developer but I'm having to do tech support all of my time because there is nobody else that can do it.

I'm actually hoping this menu will falter a little and I can get back onto doing what I really enjoy which is writing software

Poster: Migru
Dated: Wednesday May 10 2006 - 19:21:21 BST

Hi



I think I can.......... and it is easy for "us" - I mean "just users" to point at such announcements though everybody should know how difficult it is to meet any deadline of this type of business..........

Michael

Poster: lsalsich
Dated: Wednesday May 10 2006 - 19:26:18 BST



Migru,

The system I've built uses PHP and MySQL to generate the menu - while also allowing you to add new items, menus, styles, etc from web-based admin control panel. Pretty easy to use.

Here is a very brief overview of the project as it stands now:

PHPMadmin is primarily a PHP administration system for the Milonic Menu. It does not modify the core files of Milonic Menu and requires that users still obtain Milonic licenses, etc.

Highlights of the system are:

1) Ease of use – PHPMadmin is a simple interface that allows any wed admin to build and maintain Milonic menus of any kind.

2) Portability – Site admins can easily insert a menu from PHPMadmin into ANY page within their site using one small line of PHP code. No complicated integration with PHPMadmin is required. Menus can be inserted into CMS systems, plain PHP pages, etc.

3) Speed – PHPMadmin uses data caching so that your pages don’t have to process all the menu data on each load. PHPMadmin will only load the menus from the database when you have made a change to the database. Otherwise, the menu data is loaded from cached files that greatly speed the menu load times.

4) Search-Engine friendly – PHPMadmin has a built-in function that can insert ALL the links contained in the database into hidden fields within each web page. This allows search engines to follow the links, but also maximizes your page rank since all pages contain all links.

5) Easy to customize – PHPMadmin uses the Smarty Templating Engine to separate the PHP code from the HTML display. This allows admins to embed the PHPMadmin management system into their sites very quickly without needing to understand how it is programmed, while preserving the look of their individual sites.

6) Flexibility – PHPMadmin allows you to show the same menu using different styles, orientation, etc WITHOUT having to rename the menu or create a duplicate.

Poster: lsalsich
Dated: Wednesday May 10 2006 - 19:38:12 BST



Been there...... feel your pain.

Beta available

Poster: lsalsich
Dated: Monday May 22 2006 - 15:27:25 BST

Hey all,

I posted a topic on this yesterday in the 'News' forum. The 'beta' of my system is available to demo. See the post here http://www.milonic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7512&highlight=phpmadmin, or visit my site at http://www.groupzero.net

Please take a few minutes to test out the 'demo' on my site and offer an feedback, bug reports, comments, etc. I would really appreciate it.

Luke