2009/06/16: Finished work on QuaaxTM core which implements PHPTMAPI 2.0. The SVN is now available including a test suite.

QuaaxTM is a small Topic Maps engine, an implementation of the core interfaces of PHPTMAPI. PHPTMAPI is based on the TMAPI specification and provides a standardized API for PHP 5 to access and process data held in a topic map.
QuaaxTM uses MySQL with InnoDB as storage engine and therefore benefits from transaction support and referential integrity. We hope that the popular PHP-MySQL-environment and the standardized API can help to emerge ISO 13250 Topic Maps into a wider area, especially the PHP community.

Features:

• Supports duplicate suppression for the topic properties topic names, occurrences, subject locators and subject identifiers
• Supports the Topic Maps Data Model
• Supports automerging for topics ($topic->mergeIn(TopicInterface $other))
• Stores multiple topic maps

ToDos:

• Merging topic maps ($topicmap->mergeIn(TopicMapInterface $othermap))
• Flexible configuration

It is recommended to checkout and install the new QuaaxTM which implements PHPTMAPI 2.0 (see news section above).

Download release 0.3. Browse the API documentation (opens in new window).
QuaaxTM is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Download package contains

• QuaaxTM sources,
• PHPTMAPI 1.0 (sources),
• API documentation,
• Installation guide.

Installation requirements are

• PHP 5.x,
• MySQL with InnoDB as storage engine.

Please note that this is still Alpha!

Contribution, ideas, suggestions and annotations are welcome! Contact Johannes Schmidt via

• PHPTMAPI
• TMAPI (Java)
• TMDM - Topic Maps Data Model
• XML Topic Maps (XTM) 1.0 Specification

Quaax is a kind of art term which doesn't have any meaning - used by Andreas Stephan and Johannes Schmidt (both sixgroups.com) for various projects and purposes...