Every sales and marketing person knows that it is advantageous to learn a potential customer's name; in fact the more you know about your customer the better you are able to service them. In the web world it is possible to personalize a web experience for your customer, calling them by name and providing topical and contextual content based on what you know about them.
Those Village Roles that are authorized to use Inline PHP and database-backed fields can easily track and use customer information online in real-time and use that information to direct your customer to relevant Information Objects within or external to GATE Village.
As you have not logged in right now, it is difficult to personalize this page at all except to say that you are not logged in right now 
database-backed fields
Track your customers, invoices, products, and important data.
Many tasks in business require access to shared, stored data.
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GATE
PHP
PHP is the main programming language in
use within GATE Village. Some Village members are allowed to extend
their web presence using PHP to access specific data within the Village
providing a more personalized view, tracking project or customer data
or any number of other uses of dynamic content.
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Village Roles
GATE Village has a wide variety of functionality, a plethora of content types, and a vast and growing database of content. No single account or person (outside of the necessary Administrator account) has access to everything, not even GATE employees. Access to all functions, features, content and content types is controlled through tte use of roles -- this is often referred to as Role Based Access.
GATE Village roles are usually hierarchical in nature, thus any member may have many different roles.
Village Role
GATE Village has a wide variety of functionality, a plethora of content types, and a vast and growing database of content. No single account or person (outside of the necessary Administrator account) has access to everything, not even GATE employees. Access to all functions, features, content and content types is controlled through tte use of roles -- this is often referred to as Role Based Access.
GATE Village roles are usually hierarchical in nature, thus any member may have many different roles.