1. GlueX Portal at Regina Rheanne Filby, Carolyn Ingram, Zisis Papandreou, Ryan Taylor GlueX Collaboration Meeting Bloomington, Indiana May 20-22, 2004 Rheanne Filby, Carolyn Ingram, Zisis Papandreou, Ryan Taylor GlueX Collaboration Meeting Bloomington, Indiana May 20-22, 2004

2. GlueX Collaboration Meeting, May 2004 2 It’s a boy! Ioannis Ioulius born April 26 14:42 pm 3.05 kg (6lbs 11oz) 52 cm Ioannis Ioulius born April 26 14:42 pm 3.05 kg (6lbs 11oz) 52 cm

3. GlueX Collaboration Meeting, May 2004 3 What is it and why? Portal = gateway to a suite of communications and physics tools View and post news, notes, reports, papers, photos, and much more Web Forum with threaded messaging Event Calendar and Work Board Access Computing Clusters & Queues Portal = gateway to a suite of communications and physics tools View and post news, notes, reports, papers, photos, and much more Web Forum with threaded messaging Event Calendar and Work Board Access Computing Clusters & Queues

4. GlueX Collaboration Meeting, May 2004 4 GlueX Portal Phases Phase 1: Installation and population of communications suite Phase 2: Installation of physics simulation and analysis suite Phase 3: Replacement of tools with grid services Phase 1: Installation and population of communications suite Phase 2: Installation of physics simulation and analysis suite Phase 3: Replacement of tools with grid services March- June 2004 July- Decem. 2004 2005 and on

5. GlueX Collaboration Meeting, May 2004 5 The needs and musts Browser-based access to tools Authentication and authorization Robust back-end database Modular and scalable Open source code Browser-based access to tools Authentication and authorization Robust back-end database Modular and scalable Open source code

6. GlueX Collaboration Meeting, May 2004 6 The nuts and bolts PHP-Nuke 7.0 - a portal system geared towards online interactivity Administrator, Moderator, User roles Written in PHP 4 MySQL 4.0.15 Database phpMyAdmin management PHP-Nuke 7.0 - a portal system geared towards online interactivity Administrator, Moderator, User roles Written in PHP 4 MySQL 4.0.15 Database phpMyAdmin management

7. GlueX Collaboration Meeting, May 2004 7 Blocks and Modules PHP-Nuke uses a modular and abstraction-layered approach Modules: the tools Blocks: groups of modules Application framework: registration/login Abstraction: MySQL, mysql4, PostgreSQL, MSAccess, Oracle, mssql, mssql-odbc, db2 PHP-Nuke uses a modular and abstraction-layered approach Modules: the tools Blocks: groups of modules Application framework: registration/login Abstraction: MySQL, mysql4, PostgreSQL, MSAccess, Oracle, mssql, mssql-odbc, db2

8. GlueX Collaboration Meeting, May 2004 8 Command and Control index.php, modules.php, admin.php: these handle all other files; no direct hits to modules; http://www.gluex.org/modules.php?name=Topics Security: Session ID, Users’ IP, cookies, db storage Cover our “backend”: daily db dump (Nuke/MySQL)

9. GlueX Collaboration Meeting, May 2004 9 The look and feel Login block Search block Modules block Categories Surveys Big stories Login block Search block Modules block Categories Surveys Big stories Main Area Navigation Bar http://tantalus.phys.uregina.ca/gluex/