[CLUE-Adm] Website -> PHP

[Jeffery C. Cann]

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Greetings.

I migrated the CLUE web site from 'htmlpp' to PHP.  It is live on ta8 as of 
this afternoon.

You should see almost no difference in the web site.  Note that I configured 
Apache on ta8 to run 'html' pages as PHP applications.  This means that any 
<?php ?> tags in html pages will be parsed by the PHP interpreter.  I did 
this because I didn't want to rename all the CLUE web pages from .html to 
.php.

The new PHP files are static and we will work on adding the features we 
talked about using PHP + MySQL.  The goal of the new features is to move the 
CLUE web site maintenance from static (i.e., hand-editing html pages) to 
dynamic (i.e., put info in database, have html pages use PHP to get info from 
database to generate pages).  Note that not all information on the CLUE web 
site will be dynamically generated.  In fact, 90% of the information on the 
CLUE web site is static.  This means only information related to the 
following portions of the site will be in the database:

1. Meeting Sponsors
2. Meeting Prizes
3. News and Notes
4. Meeting Abstracts
5. KISS Abstracts

The next steps are:
- - Create CVS repository on ta8.  I am working on this currently and soon will 
send out instructions for pulling source code from the repository.
- - Create CLUEDB in MySQL.  The database will contain the tables necessary to 
support data entry of the 5 entities noted above.
- - Build data entry forms for database tables.
- - Tie CLUE web site to CLUEDB using PHP.  For example, the 'News and Notes' 
section on the home page will be populated using a database query, rather 
than hand-editing the CLUE home page.

Jim Intriglia told me that he wants to help build the dynamic portions of the 
web site.  If anyone else is interested (I belive Lynn is), please let me 
know.

Stay tuned for CVS instructions.
Jeff
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