DOTLAN
DOTLAN is an intranet system for planning and hosting a LAN party . In 2000, Daniel Hoffend started developing for the Lanparty “fettnet” on a non-commercial basis. He has been marketing the system commercially since 2005.
Functions
DOTLAN offers a complete content management system that does not necessarily have to be used for LAN parties, but can also be used to create websites . DOTLAN also offers a number of special functions for the original application area of LAN parties.
In addition to a seating plan editor, user administration and a media database, DOTLAN also includes a tried and tested tournament system. The tournament organizer can choose between the most popular systems, double elimination , single elimination and group system. Combinations of different systems are also possible. Registration for the tournaments can take place directly at the party or in advance on the Internet. There is also no separate intranet system for the LAN party, rather the system contains all the necessary modules for the Internet and Intranet and can therefore be taken 1 to 1 with you to the LAN party.
The complete system has a modular structure so that parts of the system that are not required can be deactivated.
Modules
- News management
- Article system
- Picture gallery
- Media database
- User administration
- private messages
- Survey
- Event system with support for several parties in parallel
- Projector module
- Catering system
- Seating plan
- Sponsors / banner management
- various tournament systems with interfaces for leagues
- To do list
- Log Viewer
- Rights management
- Circular mails
technology
Since it uses the PHP script language and an SQL database (currently only the free MySQL is supported) as the backend , a web server with a database connection is required. The web standards XHTML and CSS , as well as AJAX approaches, are used as the front end .
Events (selection)
Events that have already used DOTLAN:
- DoT-LAN - random identity - ( Ried im Innkreis , since January 2004, 800 participants)
- WCG 2005 Euro Championship ( CeBIT Hannover , March 2005)
- The Zenith ( Göttingen , September 2004, 1800 participants)