Introduction

Arcos is a code-generation tool which you use to create database-driven web sites.

Traditionally, you would write the PHP source code from scratch. With Arcos, you build the site from existing PHP code, using XML to specify which PHP code components will be used. This can greatly improve your efficiency. You can use existing code components which we provide. Additionally, you can write your own code components.

Optionally, you can link existing pages or even an entire web site into a project (provided that the web site consists of static pages only).

Each time a user requests a web page, Arcos generates the page — until the user requests the page, it does not have any physical existence.

Before you can use Arcos, you need to understand how it works. Please read the remaining Concepts of Arcos topics in sequence.

Users

There are four classes of user: