[RULE] Call to arms and requirements for the website

[drose]

I can [probably] do your regexps, I belive.  While no guru by a long
shot, I love bash but I hate html.



On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 17:31, Eugene Wong wrote:
> >From: "Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
> >Subject: RE: [RULE] Call to arms and requirements for the website
> >Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:23:41 -0600
> >
> >I've been thinking of two possible schema for this (displaying them is not 
> >a problem since, as Eugene said, CSS solves that neatly):
> >
> >         1. Put all news items in a directory as text files. Have the first 
> >line be the news headline. Have the filename provide the category and 
> >datestamp. Use a PHP function to get the directory listing, grep for the 
> >categories you want (or all if you prefer), and display the N most recent 
> >items in that category iteratively. Not that difficult.
> >
> >         2. Instead of using a directory listing with separate files, set 
> >up a quick-and-dirty form to put the news items into a MySQL table. Then do 
> >the same as in #1 to extract the desired items.
> 
> My preference is #1 because I don't understand SQL very well, & have had 
> difficulty running MySQL. I realize that I'm not the 1 in charge here, but I 
> mention it only as advice. If you set up MySQL, then that might mean another 
> point of failure. In other words, if MySQL goes down but the web server 
> stays up, then the web page/site still may not function properly.

> <snip>
> >I understand and can design the logic quite easily and well... I just can't 
> >code them into reality just yet. Frustrating.
> 
> Yes, me too. I agree.
> 
> >And lots of book reading.
> 
> Yes, there's another problem. If we try to get too sophisticated, then it 
> becomes a burden to manage the site. I'd rather do something repetitive, 
> than try to learn something that I might not understand.
> 
> Regarding the threaded tree site map, I just thought of something. It 
> shouldn't be hard to find a tree program that should be able to spell things 
> out. After that, we could use a bash script to add links to each page. I'm 
> not strong with regular expressions, but if somebody could do that, then I 
> could try to create that bash script.
> 
> --
> Sincerely, & with thanks,
> Eugene T.S. Wong
> 
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