I think a clever use of Open Source is reusing and adapting
code written by others.


20070127 -
php4 domxml to php5 dom code: 
Alexandre Alapetite, http://alexandre.alapetite.net/

I have taken code and ideas from the following projects:

Etomite    : the installer
Mantis     : custom fields, ldap authentication, lang_api, database class
Eventum    : some javascript
Dotproject : ideas for custom fields and database class


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