[Rule-www] RULE call for:db, downloads, translations

[Marco Fioretti]

Hello,

as you might have noticed, I have put all the web pages in php format
(www.rule-projects.org/en/). I am also going through all of them, one
by one, and rewriting/updating the content. The reasons for going to
PHP were:

        1) It looks cool on my resume :-)
        2) we can integrate database queries wherever they are needed
        3) smart multilingual pages are much easier to support
           (details about how I think to do it below)

As already mentioned, I'm taking care of rewriting everything, adding
pages where needed, etc.... I have also finally started to add several
scripts of interest for RULE users (see www.rule-project.org/en/sw/),
 and will package them in rpm
format as soon as I can switch to RH 8.0, In the meantime, however, I
could really use some assistance, first of all in translations, then,
about point 2:

        (Rodolfo) What are the settings for linking to a MySQL site on the
        server?

        (everybody) restoring the app_db database: it must be possible
                    to query it both for "study" purposes as mentioned
                    in the corresponding pages, and to list all software
                    developed for RULE, or available on its web site
                    from www.rule-project.org/en/sw/ 

        (" " " " ") adding a "news" table, fields: date, title,
                    content, URL. In this way the home page can recall
                    the N (=2,3) latest news, and they can all be
                    listed in a separate page

        (Benoit if still around and interested, everybody else
        otherwise)
                    move the "test PC" stuff (table, entry form...) to
                    corresponding tables in the database 

Last but not least:
         Rodolfo, may I ask you to set the server so that
        address@hidden forwards to this address?

        Michael, could you suggest a standard/self maintaining way to
        have the website always listing the latest miniconda/slinky release
        available (something like php page listing the /downloads directory
        all by itself)?

        Thanks in advance for all your support!

                Ciao,   
                        Marco Fioretti
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P.S.: HOW TO build/show multilingual site one piece at a time:
        EX for spanish:

        populate www.rule-project.org/sp/ with empty php files having
        the same names of those in www.rule-project.org/en/

        whenever a translation exists, empty file is substituted with
        real one

        desired language is passed around like this: index.php?L=sp
        so that:
                if real sp/index.php exists it is shown, otherwise its
                empty placeholder redirects to en/index.php?L=sp

                en/index.php sets all its internal links to the /sp
                directory, and the game repeats...

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