Add author management functionality and update routing rules

- Updated .htaccess rules to allow trailing slashes for specific routes.
- Introduced a new .gitignore file to exclude the cache directory.
- Created project configuration file for Serena with language and tool settings.
- Implemented Authors class for managing author data, including methods for saving, deleting, and editing authors.
- Added factory class for Authors to handle database interactions related to authors.
- Developed Article class to manage article data and interactions, including fetching articles and updating views.
- Created Page class with a placeholder method for sorting pages.
- Added front factory class for fetching author details with caching.

autoload/front/factory/class.Settings.php

@@ -6,19 +6,19 @@ class Settings
   public static function settings_details()
   {
     global $mdb;
-    
+
     if ( !$settings = \Cache::fetch( 'settings_details' ) )
     {
       $results = $mdb -> select( 'pp_settings', '*' );
       if ( is_array( $results ) ) foreach ( $results as $row )
         $settings[ $row['param'] ] = $row['value'];
-      
+
       \Cache::store( 'settings_details', $settings );
     }
-    
+
     return $settings;
   }
-  
+
   public static function visit_counter()
   {
     global $mdb;