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<title>Introduction</title>
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<title>What is phpGroupWare</title>
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phpGroupWare is a multi-user web-based suite written in PHP.  It contains many applications, including a Calendar, email package, contact database and project manager.  It also includes an extensive API for writing new applications.
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<title>About the author</title>

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Brandon Neill just wanted to figure out how to use the program and decided to write a manual as an excuse to bug the developers.
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<title>Acknowledgements</title>
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I would like to thank the many authors of phpGroupWare and it's applications for creating such a useful and extensible product.  I would also like to thank the authors of previous version of the documentation and the authors of the LDP Author guide for teaching me how to use DocBook.
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<title>Notes</title>
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This document is based upon the current CVS release, where possible I included notes relating to the current stable release (0.9.12).  This is a work in progress, please email any corrections to <email>bneill@yahoo.com</email>.
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