CMS in REBOL?

Perhaps you could elaborate on CMS means to you? What "stuff" would be accomplished by having and using a CMS? Andrew J Martin Attendance Officer & Grail Jedi. Colenso High School Arnold Street, Napier. Tel: 64-6-8310180 ext 826 Fax: 64-6-8336759 http://colenso.net/scripts/Wiki.r?AJM http://www.colenso.school.nz/ DISCLAIMER: Colenso High School and its Board of Trustees is not responsible (or legally liable) for materials distributed to or acquired from user e-mail accounts. You can report any misuse of an e-mail account to our ICT Manager and the complaint will be investigated. (Misuse can come in many forms, but can be viewed as any material sent/received that indicate or suggest pornography, unethical or illegal solicitation, racism, sexism, inappropriate language and/or other issues described in our Acceptable Use Policy.) All outgoing messages are certified virus-free by McAfee GroupShield Exchange 5.10.285.0 Phone: +64 6 843 5095 or Fax: +64 6 833 6759 or E-mail: [postmaster--colenso--school--nz]

You could have a look at vanilla - http://www.langreiter.com/space/vanilla :) -- Best regards, Andreas

Unfortunately, my work's firewall prevents me from accessing this (and my home internet isn't working 'till next week). Can some one summarise or could Carlos send a interesting page from the site please?

written in REBOL. It could be a good idea? Andrew J Martin Attendance Officer & Grail Jedi: in a deep dungeon peeking out from behind a firewall, & sending emails with the help of herds of friendly electrons...Colenso High School Arnold Street, Napier. Tel: 64-6-8310180 ext 826 Fax: 64-6-8336759 http://colenso.net/scripts/Wiki.r?AJM http://www.colenso.school.nz/ DISCLAIMER: Colenso High School and its Board of Trustees is not responsible (or legally liable) for materials distributed to or acquired from user e-mail accounts. You can report any misuse of an e-mail account to our ICT Manager and the complaint will be investigated. (Misuse can come in many forms, but can be viewed as any material sent/received that indicate or suggest pornography, unethical or illegal solicitation, racism, sexism, inappropriate language and/or other issues described in our Acceptable Use Policy.) All outgoing messages are certified virus-free by McAfee GroupShield Exchange 5.10.285.0 Phone: +64 6 843 5095 or Fax: +64 6 833 6759 or E-mail: [postmaster--colenso--school--nz]

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Sorry, our school's firewall is just tooooooooo high! :) I suggest HTML email! Andrew J Martin Attendance Officer & Grail Jedi Who's supply of witty taglines seems to have dried up at the moment... Colenso High School Arnold Street, Napier. Tel: 64-6-8310180 ext 826 Fax: 64-6-8336759 http://colenso.net/scripts/Wiki.r?AJM http://www.colenso.school.nz/ DISCLAIMER: Colenso High School and its Board of Trustees is not responsible (or legally liable) for materials distributed to or acquired from user e-mail accounts. You can report any misuse of an e-mail account to our ICT Manager and the complaint will be investigated. (Misuse can come in many forms, but can be viewed as any material sent/received that indicate or suggest pornography, unethical or illegal solicitation, racism, sexism, inappropriate language and/or other issues described in our Acceptable Use Policy.) All outgoing messages are certified virus-free by McAfee GroupShield Exchange 5.10.285.0 Phone: +64 6 843 5095 or Fax: +64 6 833 6759 or E-mail: [postmaster--colenso--school--nz]

Yes [best kept secrets] strangely, and unfortunately Vanilla, one of Rebol's coolest apps, is off the radar. It's even off the radar at http://rebol.com [try a search] That makes no sense. What a shame there is still not any support or links to it there. - Jason

Maybe their search isn't working. But Vanilla _is_ featured. Click the "Developer Web Links" on www.rebol.com home page, and there it is in the middle of the page -- It calls it "An amazing, extensible wiki/blog powered by small REBOL script modules." I'm not sure it's the *right* link, but it's start. Sunanda.

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Good news.. thanks. Search would seem to tbe one of the things Rebol excels at. So I assumed wrongly [again] that rebol.com would try and seriously demonstrate that. Vanilla still deserves much better write-up from RT and elsewhere. Maybe they don't really understand appreciate it, except by hearsay? - Jason

aha.. Thank you for filling me in one corner of a decidedly odd mystery - to wit: If Rebol is so cool [we know it is] then why its authors [RT] don't demo and present that better? Why is there is no "About this site" which makes it clear that Rebol is tangibly useful for web sites? Meanwhile, do you have any insights about how to create a Rebol web server suitable for running Vanilla? What's been attempted, incentives, obstacles, pros/cons, recommendations ?? thanks for any thoughts on this - Jason

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My apologies - that just sounds much more cranky than intended. Glad to see there are a few improvements at rebol.com. I realize that in most respects Rebol is aimed at implementing a post-web browser vision. But we aint there yet and web servers and web sites are still pretty damn useful. Anyone know how much traffic AltME can handle? Is it 100% Rebol? - Jason

The search on rebol.com is pretty basic and could do with some work as both you and Bo suggest. REBOL _is_ good at website searches, as the tool built by Gregg and Volker from some initial code from Carl on REBOL.ORG shows. Try these searches at REBOL.org (type into the "Find scripts" box) ;; any script with the word "parse" anywhere: parse ;; any script with "parse" in its title: parse in title ;; find small scripts: size <= 1000 ;; find very recent scripts: date > 01-oct-2003 It can't do boolean combinations of search parameters yet, so you can't find all of Gregg's recent additions... date > 01-sep-2003 and gregg in author ;; doesn't work ....but it should give you some idea of what is possible in REBOL for building a website search function. Online help page with more examples at: http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/boiler.r?display=introduction.html Sunanda.

ooh cool :-) Thanks for the heads-up. As you see, I've been away from Rebol for a while. Very nice to see this site now-- well done! Can you describe the site design and contents formatting in more detail please What do the actual entries look like? thanks - Jason

Please can you point me to the actual search script which is running on the site? thanks - Jason

Glad you like it. Thanks!

Take a look at this script in the Library http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=cookie-example .r It uses many routines lifted direct from the REBOL.org CGIs, and demonstrates some of techniques we use -- techniques that could be common to almost any website built in REBOL: -- HTML templates with place-holders for variable substitution (RSP does it better; if I was starting the site over again, I'd be tempted to use RSP) -- Making an object out of the CGI input fields -- "Defusing" CGI input fields to prevent XSS attacks, or just weird output formatting -- Validating CGI input fields -- Setting a cookie for session control -- Using the cookie to retrieve user data --Wrapping all the code in an error? try so you get an apology message rather than a server error if the code goes off-rail.

The indexing and searching code isn't mine, so I'll have to pass on the request to publish it -- it's Carl's code with a lot of changes by Gregg. But I can give you a peek at the files it uses. The indexing builds two files. The first is mainly the scripts' header information and looks like this: === [file %3kbnewsreader.r size 4605 title "3KB News Reader" author "Ryan C. Christiansen" date 30-Aug-2003 version 0.1.1 purpose "Simple CLI news reader." library [level 'intermediate platform none type 'Tool domain 'other-net tested-under none support none license none]] [file %accumulate.r size 1098 title "Accumulate" author "Andrew Martin" date 30-Aug-2003 version 1.0.1 purpose {Cumulates values in a block together, by successively applying the function to each value in Series.} library [level 'intermediate platform none type 'function domain 'math tested-under none support none license none]] [file %add-link.r size 2295 title "Link Maintainer" author "Anonymous" date 30-Aug-2003 version 1.0.0 purpose "Cgi for maintaining links to REBOL materials" library [level 'advanced platform none type 'Tool domain 'cgi tested-under none support none license none]] etc ==== And the second is an index of all words found, and looks like this: ===== exponent 312 exponential 125 export 15 72 122 182 183 262 expose 359 361 362 363 expose-list 362 Exposed 359 362 ===== Where the numbers are indexes to script names. So six scripts contain the word "export". This scheme works well with around 500 scripts of total size nearly 2MB. Gregg is working on some improvements so we keep ahead of the curve as the dataset grows. Sunanda.

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---8<-snip--- Thanks very much :-) Jason