UNS is a billboard-style notification system. Client computers connect to the server with a web browser and receive a page configured specifically for that client. For example, an administrator can configure a client for the front lobby and assign it a set of URLs: the company homepage, relevant news sites, weather, custom pages, an RSS feed view, or images. An Emergency Mode overrides all clients and displays a designated emergency message across every screen, such as evacuation instructions during a fire or lockdown procedures during a security incident.
Recent News
(7/28/2012) Development of UNS Version 2 is underway and is approximately 50% complete. Progress so far includes:
A new file structure:
unscore.inc.php (core functions shared by the client and admin interfaces)
unsclient.inc.php (functions the client page uses to retrieve URLs)
unsadmin.inc.php (functions for the admin panel)
unsxml.inc.php (functions for parsing RSS feed XML and generating API XML)
The configuration files (conn.php and vars.php) now use arrays instead of individual variables.
All code now resides in the '/lib/' folder. The admin folder and the root index (the client view/API page) each contain a lightweight dispatcher.
The frontend now uses the Smarty templating engine.
Redirects now work correctly across all major browsers.
Switched to PDO with prepared statements, improving security around session cookie handling and resolving an issue where expired sessions were not being cleared from the sessions table.
Features
Central management
Active Directory based authentication
Internal Based
Users
Allows multiple client computers with separate list of urls
Emergency messages. Easily set a message on all client computers in the event of an emergency. This overrides the clients standard lists.
Create quick custom pages. These can be used in the client url list or the emergency url list
