A new year, and a new Packt Publishing Open Source Awards. Formerly known as the Open Source CMS Award, this 2010 edition has an enlarged number of categories. As of this year's edition, there are now also non-CMS categories that can compete.

A few weeks ago, ImpressCMS was included in the Microsoft Web App Gallery. This is great news for the project, as it can now be downloaded and installed automatically with only a few clicks on a Windows Server.

Make Web Not War, Canada's first cross-platform web conference, was held back in May and during that conference, Marc-André explained how ImpressCMS came to be included in Microsoft Web App Gallery (also called Web PI).

In the last few weeks, we have been working on establishing our own coding standards. It is now time to go public with it!

General observations

• All new code developed starting with 1.1 will be pure PHP 5 (discussion - PHP5 discussion in the forums)
• All PHP files will use complete open tags
  
• All files will include the ImpressCMS copyright notice, as shown in the File Header
• All files, classes, class methods, class variables, functions and defines will be documented with DocBlocks
• Assume all user input will be malicious - properly sanitize all form entries and $_GET, $_POST and $_COOKIE variables

The basis of the ImpressCMS coding standards are the standards used by Zend Framework, which are also based on the PEAR coding standards. However, we differ in a few ways with Zend standards. Our standards are defined below.

Those standards are to be enforced by any contributor to ImpressCMS. Since we are all human, we will make mistakes from time to time. Let's all help each other and correct our formating mistakes ;-).

A new year, and a new Packt Publishing Open Source Awards. Formerly known as the Open Source CMS Award, this 2010 edition has an enlarged number of categories. As of this year's edition, there are now also non-CMS categories that can compete.