Project: new m0n0wall’s webGUI
I have used m0n0wall since years and I am very satisfied about its robustness and its focus not wanting to be a all-in-one firewall . It does its job as firewall and that is all I needed. It has a nice webGUI for administration, which is coded in PHP.
Some months ago, I looked into the webGUI code and thought that this could be done much better. The design and logic are actually implemented into the same code. There are some other quirks which i don’t like. There is not a single line of object oriented PHP code. Several other projects like pfSense, freenas and askoziaPBX are m0n0wall based. I also wanted to make a new code base for these projects. Some small new features are also planned for the final release:
- i18n / translations
- Minimal themes: Change style/Logo with your own CSS
- LDAP authentication
- Logs by RSS/ATOM
I also wanted to use a framework (don’t wanted to reinvent the wheel) which had to be under BSD license, because m0n0wall is also released under BSD license. So I took the fantastic Zend Framework. For those who not know: Zend is the big company behind PHP’s core developing.
The PHP5 OOP based new webGUI Project, called m0n0-php5, is available under the my Projects page. Thesource can be found in my GIT repo.
A release is planned on Q1 2009.