Re: {bb} Question about script

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 13:45, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:

> I realize this is "sort of" the way the main bb page works.
> But I support roughly 2,000 technical people, all wanting 
> their little world on a separate page.  Creating individual 
> pages for a server or two has become quite tiresome.
> I figure if I can whip up a portal where people can build 
> their own pages, then I don't need to worry about all 
> the maintenance of individual pages for a server or two.
> This script would help with that effort.
>
> I've been running BB for more than 6 years now, and 
> have thought about this for the better part of 5 of it.  
> I'm just getting around to actually coding it now.  ;)

I think that I can begin to understand a little of what you are
trying to do with this. Unfortunately, it looks like I'm 5 years
behind you in the planning. It sounds like a personalised and
dynamic variety of sub-page with a CGI front end. I expect that
the details of a suitable solution would be highly implementation
specific, so I'll stick to generalities.

There appear to be a range of CGI frameworks for content management
applications which could provide a handy starting point. It might
also be worth looking at the BBgen to see how Henrik designed his
"pageset" feature.

I can also envisage and alternative approach if you are not too
concerned with the background colour. If you don't need ultimate
flexibility but can reduce the choices to a collection of sub-
pages (by department or function), it might then be sufficient
to filter out unwanted hosts from those pages based on individual
needs. As you would expect, there are limitations and benefits
to this approach.

But, to answer your original question, I expect that you will
have to do most of the work yourself.

Cheers, Phil.



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but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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