cgi and php are only useful if you used that functionality, other wise you may as well use an external site. -Ben On 4/10/06, Jonathan Blake <blake.jon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 4/7/06, pamail.cgi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pamail.cgi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The following was sent from the Project Aon contact form > > From: Jacob Humphrey eyemixer@xxxxxxxxx > > Date: 01:11:43 on Saturday, April 8, 2006 > > Subject: PHP conversion > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > I am currently teaching myself PHP and MySQL, and it seems the current > system you have with frames and whatnot could be redone with PHP. > > Your proposal has answered most of the concerns that I would have, and > I believe that would also be true for all of the other volunteers at > Project Aon. One thing that you should be aware of is that we have a > single source XML file for each book. This is where we make any > changes. This single XML file is transformed into the other formats > that Project Aon publishes (only XHTML at present, but we are working > on adding PDF to that list). We never change those derived formats > manually. This system helps us avoid changing multiple different > copies of a text each time a change is required. > > http://www.projectaon.org/test/en/xml/ > > In the long run, it would be best if your project works within this > system. If you're not familiar with XSLT or a similar facility to > transform the XML file into what you need (and don't want to learn > this on top of PHP and MySQL), we can help with that portion. > > Anything that will improve the experience of the visitors to the > projectaon.org website would be greatly appreciated. Please feel free > to go forward with your project. > > You should probably join the Project Aon volunteers' list: > > http://www.projectaon.org/en/Sanctum/Howto-join > > By joining the list you can keep abreast of the current goings-on and > ask for any help, if required. > > For Sommerlund and the Kai! > > Jonathan Blake > Project Aon > > -- The Force will be with you... Always.