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A very simple way of making an HTML based UI wrapper for a database, inspired
by some Palm prudcts like "ThingDB". You put this script in a directory
(on a system that supports DBM databases, as most Unix systems do) and then
define a database by describing its fields in a text file:
date|date simple select|select|foo,bar,baz select defaults three|select|one,two,three,four|three checkbox defaults on|checkbox|on checkbox defaults off|checkbox simple textfield|text textfield with default|text|this default long textfield|text||60 short textfield with default|text|def|5The format is field name|field type| other arguments. For a select list, the 3rd argument is a comma seperated list of options followed by an optional 4th specifying what the default is. Checkbox has an optional 3rd arg "on" which causes it to default on for new entries. A text field has an optional third default text and an optional fourth size for the text box. A date field defaults to today's date. The program takes this *.kdb file and makes a database for it, complete with dump (sortable on any field), add entry, delete entry, modify entry UIs. |
kdb.cgi see it work
k/photo
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K/photo is a trivial-to-use perl script to make an online
photo album out of a directory full of pictures. Drop
the script (or, if your ISP supports it, a symbolic link)
into a directory of GIFs and JPEGs as "index.cgi" and when
you go the directory through your web browser, you will have
the option to view the images one at a time (via a click
through photo album) or all on one large page. From any page you
can jump to any other photo.
| I've recently updated this script, and given it a friend. It's now easy to add captions to any of the photos... to add captions or make a splashpage, copy in or make a symlink to editkphoto.cgi in the same directory. Go to the URL for that directory, and you'll have a simple HTML form to edit the album title, splashscreen HTML, and captions for each of the photos. (You have to make sure that the script has permission to write to a file named "kphoto.info" in the same directory.) Then remove the edit symlink (or leave it if you're feeling lucky) and you have a fully captioned photoalbum with no coding work (HTML or otherwise) on your part!
kphoto.cgi | editkphoto.cgi see it work
k/link
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K/link is a neat online bookmark system. I was sick of having
different sets of bookmarks at work and at home, in Netscape and in IE.
Also, I wanted a category system as easy to use (or easier) than IE, and
the ability to have comments about each link, not just a title. Since then,
my buddy Tree adapted the same code to make a slashbox on
slashdot. It uses cookies to validate you
are authorized to make changes on every screen, so it has a username/password
hardwired into the script/
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klink.cgi | see end results see edit link mode see link edit screen | ||