Vivvo 4 Features & Requirements

Articles / Pages / Publishing

  • Different output formats: Web (xHTML), Mobile/PDA, Plain Text, RSS / Atom
  • Static Pages
  • Custom statuses for articles (active, pending, headline, archive)
  • Internal search engine for advanced searching of site content
  • Future / Expiring content (you can set future publishing dates)
  • Tags
  • Related articles
  • Article tools (email to a friend, print version, subscribe, etc.)
  • Social bookmarking syndication (Digg, Del.icio, and others)
  • WYSIWYG editor for adding content with custom advanced features for article body highlighting
  • Archive system for old articles
  • Preview content
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Administration / General

  • Intuitive UI and drag'n'drop management
  • Minimal training required - fast learning curve
  • Easy Upgrade Manager for plug-ins and extensions
  • Visitor statistics
  • Download and install additional assets such as templates, plug-ins and widgets directly from control panel
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Search Engine Optimization

  • SE Friendly URLs
  • Custom META keywords/description tags
  • Automatic Google XML sitemap module
  • GoogleNews ready
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Template Engine and Layouts

  • Proprietary template engine (VTE), designer-friendly
  • Templates / Skins for both frontend and backend
  • Design independent - can support any web-page design
  • Full CSS layout and design
  • Sitewide templates: you can create entire site using default set of templates
  • Multiple templates: you can create individual templates for every section, page or even the smallest box
  • Powerful, fast and suitable for robust development
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Add-ons and Plug-ins

  • Easily extensible through a plug-in architecture and variety of accessible plug-ins
  • Helpers, Docs and Plugin Generator Wizard available to 3rd party developers
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Comments

  • Full-featured user commenting system
  • Full vBulletin, IPB and phpBB integration in comments system
  • Comment moderation
  • Anti-spam protection (CAPTCHA, bad words, flood protection, IP ban, posting by registered members only...)
  • RSS/Subscription for comments
  • Optional support for 3rd party avatars (Gravatar and similar)
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User / Member Management

  • Multi-user system with unlimited roles and permissions
  • Default levels:
    • Administrator
    • Editor
    • Trusted Writer
    • Writer
  • Member groups
    • Free/Basic members
    • Paid/Premium members
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Caching

  • Fast Cache Module that prevents server from having to repeatedly handle requests for identical content, which dramatically improves server and application performance.
  • Three levels of caching
    • Full page caching
    • Partial page caching
    • Fragment (query) caching
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Rapid Development and Customization Features

  • Custom Fields Mapping
  • Powerful XML-based Template Engine
  • Full multi-lingual system with language files for both the frond-end and back-end
  • Developer documentation, helpers and plug-ins
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Standards Compliance

  • Accessibility compliant
  • Content syndication: RSS, Atom, XML
  • xHTML
  • Mobile / PDA
  • Plain text support
  • Printer friendly support
  • Multi-language support
  • Custom templates
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Document and Media Management

  • Full media streaming capabilities
  • All major video formats supported
  • Podcasting
  • Uploading documents and files (.doc, .pdf, .xls, etc.)
  • Image repository for multiple usage
  • GD2 Image manipulation
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Download check

Not sure if your web server meets our requirements?

Download the requirement checklist (check.zip), unzip the folder and upload it to your webserver. Run it from the browser (i.e. www.YourSite.com/check/index.php) and you'll see detailed report if your website meets the optimal requirements to run Vivvo.

For full specification, read the online documentation.

Vivvo 4 requirements

  • Website - You must have a website in order to install the software. The software does not run on your PC, it runs on the actual computer that hosts your web pages.
  • PHP 5 Your web server must have PHP 5.0 or greater, with 5.2.0 being highly recommended. Your network administrator can download the latest version of PHP from http://www.php.net. PHP is extremely common though, and installed on virtually every webserver on Earth.
  • Apache web server Vivvo won't work properly under IIS or other web servers.
  • XML Parser library Expat (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php)
  • Remote connection - cURL extension or fsockopen() or file_get_contents() enabled.
  • GD Library (libgd) - http://www.libgd.org/releases/
  • MySQL - Your web server must be setup to allow database access. MySQL 3.23 or later required. MySQL 4.1 is highly recommended.
Optional:
  • mod_rewrite - Apache Web server module required for usage of Search Engine Friendly URLs.
  • Zlib extension
  • ZipArchive class - Required for automatic install in Extend Vivvo plug-in.
  • Sendmail/SMTP - Required for optional email notification functionality.
  • FTP Access - You will be transferring files from your local computer to your website, so you will need some kind of "File Transfer Protocol" software. We recommend CuteFTP.
  • Write Access - You must be able to make files and directories writable on your web server. If the software doesn't have write access it won't be able to update its data files.

Make sure to read carefully!

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