From 4b6c0e31385f5f27a151088c0a2b614495c4e589 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Duncan Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:47:50 -0400 Subject: initial commit, including theme --- .../posts/2001-10-10-the-apex-of-page-updates.html | 117 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 117 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/posts/2001-10-10-the-apex-of-page-updates.html (limited to 'content/posts/2001-10-10-the-apex-of-page-updates.html') diff --git a/content/posts/2001-10-10-the-apex-of-page-updates.html b/content/posts/2001-10-10-the-apex-of-page-updates.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ec8edf0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2001-10-10-the-apex-of-page-updates.html @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +--- +date: "2001-10-10T14:14:00Z" +title: The Apex of Page Updates +--- + +

+A lot has happened since I last updated my page: +Brian (bma) and +Karen (aphrael) got +married! Brian's wedding cruise pictures are available +here. +Tom(giblet) and +Sue (schmoo) were unable to +join Brian and Karen's wedding cruise due to the post-WTC international +flight mayhem, so they spent the week at my place instead. Tom posted +pictures of the week and the reception +here. +Also at the reception: Beth (Sue's daughter;she's a great kid and funny +as hell), Kevin (het), Nick (learath), Jimmy and Megan +(Karen's non-Internet-enabled friends that we hang out with quite a bit), +Megan's sister Jill, the man behind the curtain, +Mr. Mej (mej, KainX) +himself, +Richard (richlowe) and +Jon Anne (lilyj) were +at the reception as well, and they're staying with +Stephen (Snow-Man) +and I for a little while as well. Lots of great +Gimpable pictures of Richard in +Tom's pictures. Not that I would ever +encourage +someone to +modify a +picture of +Richard, or +of anyone else for that matter. +

+ +

+I finally got around to purchasing a CDRW, and I've been burning CDs +like mad. Somehow I managed to accumulate a couple DivX movies, so +I burned those along with a CD of mp3s for work, a full backup of my +home directory, and some other random junk. +

+ +

+Pablotron is semi-broken at the moment. Snow-Man upgraded PHP on the +web server, and it seems to have broken some of my spaghetti PHP. I've +been designing a new backend for another site, and I'll probably update +it to support site themes and port Pablotron to the new backend. The +new backend is much, much cleaner than the current Pablotron one; it +makes extensive use of stylesheets, object oriented PHP, and standard +configuration files (currently only CSV, but I plan on adding XML +support in soon). Here's an example of the differences: +

+ +

+ +<?php require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/ssi/header.php"); ?>
+<html>
+<head>
+<title>Pablotron : Sample Page</title>
+</head>
+
+<?php require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/ssi/doc/top.php"); ?>
+<?php require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/ssi/top.php"); ?>
+<b>Sample Page</b>
+<?php require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/ssi/mid.php"); ?>
+This is a sample page.
+This is a <a href="http://www.sample.com/">sample +url</a>
+<?php require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/ssi/bot.php"); ?>
+
+<?php require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/ssi/doc/bot.php"); ?>
+</html>
+ +

+ +

+Under the new system, that page could be written as follows: +

+ +

+ +<?php
+require("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/inc/header.php");
+
+$page = new Page();
+$page->start("samplePage", "Sample Page");
+
+$page->start_item("Sample Page"); ?>
+This is a sample page.
+This is a <?php $page->url("sampleUrl", "sample url"); ?>
+<?php $page->end_item();
+
+$page->end();
+?>
+ +

+ +

+Obviously the latter allows us to do all sorts of crazy things that the +former does not. Coupled with CSS, It also strengthens the distinction +between Pablotron's content and the layout. +

+ +

+Some other random stuff; I whipped up a quick script to convert +Yahoo! Finance stock quotes to +the GKrellM +FMonitor +format, so you can view stocks in GKrellM. You can download it +here. Well, there's a lot +more going on, but I have to get some sleep, so I'll try and update +again tomorrow. +

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