<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Introduction</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.hwapi.html">Hyperwave API</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="hwapi.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.hwapi.html">Hyperwave API</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="intro.hwapi" class="preface"> <h1 class="title">Introduction</h1> <p class="para"> <span class="productname">Hyperwave</span> has been developed at <a href="http://www.iicm.edu/" class="link external">» IICM</a> in Graz. It started with the name <acronym>Hyper-G</acronym> and changed to Hyperwave when it was commercialised (in 1996). </p> <p class="para"> Hyperwave is not free software. The current version, 5.5, is available at <a href="http://www.hyperwave.com/" class="link external">» http://www.hyperwave.com/</a>. A time limited version can be ordered for free (30 days). </p> <p class="para"> See also the <a href="ref.hw.html" class="link">Hyperwave</a> module. </p> <p class="para"> Hyperwave is an information system similar to a database (<acronym title="Hyperwave Information Server">HIS</acronym>, Hyperwave Information Server). Its focus is the storage and management of documents. A document can be any possible piece of data that may as well be stored in file. Each document is accompanied by its object record. The object record contains meta data for the document. The meta data is a list of attributes which can be extended by the user. Certain attributes are always set by the Hyperwave server, other may be modified by the user. </p> <blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <p class="para"> This extension has been moved to the <a href="http://pecl.php.net/" class="link external">» PECL</a> repository and is no longer bundled with PHP as of PHP 5.2.0. </p> </p></blockquote> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.hwapi.html">Hyperwave API</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="hwapi.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.hwapi.html">Hyperwave API</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>