Re: [seul-edu] Link Management System

[cfm@maine.com]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:53:43PM -0600, Les Richardson wrote:
> Key point here being: 
> 
>   What OS does the server have that will run this software? 
> 
> 
> The software currently runs MySQL for a back end, which is pretty simple to
> install...
> 
> There are other options...
> 

There is a lot of reinventing the wheel going on.

If you have a debian linux system run 'apt-cache search bookmark'
and look at the pile of returns.  Here's one that let's you
export a vanilla bookmark file (somehow - I've not tried it)
into a web page:

root@k9.maine.com:/var/src/cfo# apt-cache show bk2site
Package: bk2site
Priority: optional
Section: web
Installed-Size: 993
Maintainer: Bradley Bell <btb@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1:1.1.7-1
Depends: libwww-perl, libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810), perl
Suggests: httpd, xbel-utils | netscape | mozilla
Filename: pool/main/b/bk2site/bk2site_1.1.7-1_i386.deb
Size: 254174
MD5sum: 1e9af69fa07a1a682c81fcbae800e64e
Description: Utility to turn bookmarks into Yahoo/Slashdot like pages
 bk2site will transform a Netscape bookmarks file (use xbel-utils to
 convert other formats) into a yahoo-like website with slashdot-like
 news. You can see an example website created with it at
 http://MultiAgent.com.
 .
 The program has several nice features:
 .
  Includes hit-counter and display feature (see which URLs are popular).
  Includes integrated cgi-bin search.pl program.
  Nice-looking output.
  Powerful customization.
  Inserts navigation information into the top of each page.
  Puts a "new" icon next to new entries.
  Supports any other icon(s) (e.g., cool.gif, hot.gif) you might want to show.
  Puts New Additions on the front page.
  Puts News Items on the front page.
  Supports URL and directory aliases.
  Use PRIVATE keyword to keep some URLs/folders from appearing.





> Les
> 
> 
> 
> At 10:47 AM 12/5/01 -0700, Prevett, Larry wrote:
> >
> >| This normally would be on the inside of the school LAN and attached to the
> >| local in-school webserver. All schools should have these in order to allow
> >| teachers to create websites to direct students to educationally
> >| appropriate sites. All school workstations would normally load this as the
> >| home page, rather than any external site (which would be much slower than
> >| LAN speed).
> >
> >Les,
> >
> >Good timing. Here is the message I was just
> >composing - we are looking for just such an
> >application.
> >
> >----
> >
> > There is a lady at one of the high schools here
> > who was saving links for her class at a web site
> > called "murl.com" that's no longer there. I was
> > suggesting to her that she keep her links on
> > a web server on their intranet instead of the
> > internet (for obvious reasons.) She was willing
> > to do so but I haven't had time to identify an
> > application for her.
> >
> > This could be a simple web page, I know. But
> > she doesn't know html that well yet and likes
> > the web based form for entering links she was
> > used to.
> >
> > How difficult would it be to adapt your perl
> > scripts to allow teachers to collect their
> > own links for their classes in some kind of
> > space on an intranet web server. The entry and
> > editing the links should be password protected.
> > Students would simply access the links she provides
> > for them.
> >
> > Would you be interested in doing this? We
> > could give the software a field test and give
> > you some feedback if you want. Maybe some default
> > links from the SEUL database could be included
> > eventually.
> >
> >----
> >
> >I was going to say "What do you think?" but
> >it sounds like you already have what she needs!
> >How to we get it?
> >
> >L. Prevett
> >Mathematics Instructor
> >Cochise College, Sierra Vista, AZ, US
> >prevettl@cochise.cc.az.us
> >
> >

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