Catalog

Catalog is a perl program that allows to create, maintain and display Yahoo! like directories. The user interface is 100% HTML. It requires a MySQL database to run.

1. Introduction
2. Getting Catalog
3. Setup
4. First use
5. Catalog management guide
6. Full text search
7. Catalog tables
8. Configuration files		Configuration Files
9. External representation
10. Template files introduction
11. Catalog template files
12. SQL template files
13. CGI introduction
14. Catalog CGI
15. SQL manipulation CGI
16. Relational constraints
17. Messages translation
18. Catalog and HTTP server
19. Glossary
20. Environment variables
21. FAQ
Index of Concepts

 -- The Detailed Node Listing ---

First use

4.1 Control Panel
4.2 Creation form
4.3 Catalog editing
4.4 Inserting entries
4.5 Browsing
4.6 Conclusion

Catalog management guide

5.1 Goal
5.2 Create a table
5.3 Example installed
5.4 Quick tour
5.5 Records ordering
5.6 Record layout (urlcatalog)
5.7 Overriding a template (urlcatalog)
5.8 Customizing user view (urlcatalog)
5.9 Customizing search results (urlcatalog)
5.10 Customizing chronological browsing (urldate)
5.11 Customizing alphabetical browsing (urlalpha)
5.12 More customization

Full text search

6.1 Default full text
6.2 Real full text

Catalog tables

7.1 Catalog tables introduction
7.2 catalog		Catalog tables introduction
7.3 catalog_category_NAME
7.4 catalog_category2category_NAME
7.5 catalog_entry2category_NAME
7.6 catalog_path_NAME
7.7 catalog_alpha_NAME
7.8 catalog_date_NAME

Configuration files

8.1 Catalog configuration file
8.2 MySQL configuration file
8.3 CGI configuration file
8.4 Install configuration file
8.5 SQL editor configuration file
8.6 Template configuration file
8.7 Hook Fulcrum configuration file

External representation

9.1 XML short example
9.2 XML document encoding
9.3 XML structure
9.4 dmoz.org

Template files introduction

10.1 Templates switch table
10.2 Fixed tags
10.3 Fixed params
10.4 Database table tags		database table tags
10.5 Record list part
10.6 Multipage results template
10.7 Server side includes
10.8 Actions that takes a long time

Catalog template files

11.1 ccontrol_panel.html
11.2 calpha_root.html
11.3 calpha.html
11.4 cedit.html
11.5 cbrowse_root.html
11.6 cbrowse.html
11.7 csearch.html
11.8 cdate_default.html
11.9 cdestroy.html
11.10 centryremove_all.html
11.11 catalog_theme_insert.html
11.12 catalog_theme_edit.html
11.13 catalog_alpha_insert.html
11.14 catalog_alpha_edit.html
11.15 catalog_date_insert.html
11.16 catalog_date_edit.html
11.17 cdump.html
11.18 cimport.html
11.19 cexport.html

SQL template files

12.1 sqledit_search_form.html
12.2 sqledit_sinsert_form.html
12.3 sqledit_edit.html
12.4 sqledit_search.html
12.5 hook_search.html
12.6 sqledit_remove.html
12.7 sqledit_remove_confirm.html
12.8 error.html
12.9 sqledit_requests.html

CGI introduction

13.1 Diagram
13.2 Notation
13.3 Style parameter
13.4 Database table parameters
13.5 Primary parameter
13.6 Recursive CGI call
13.7 CGI called with PATH_INFO
13.8 Multipage results parameters

Catalog CGI

14.1 Control panel (ccontrol_panel)
14.2 Ask for catalog destruction (cdestroy)
14.3 Catalog destruction (cdestroy_confirm)
14.4 Reset count on alpha catalog (calpha_count)
14.5 Reset count on theme catalog (category_count)
14.6 Build a new catalog (cbuild)
14.7 Modify catalog properties (ccatalog_edit)
14.8 Browse alphabetical catalog root (calpha)
14.9 Browse alphabetical catalog (calpha)
14.10 Browse theme catalog root (cbrowse_root)
14.11 Browse theme catalog (cbrowse)
14.12 Intuitive navigation (pathcontext)
14.13 Catalog search (csearch)
14.14 Browse chronological catalog root (cdate)
14.15 Edit panel for a category node (cedit)
14.16 Remove a category (categoryremove)
14.17 Insert a category (categoryinsert)
14.18 Link a catalog entry (centryselect)
14.19 Create and link a catalog entry (centryinsert)
14.20 Create a symbolic link (categorysymlink)
14.21 Unlink a catalog entry (centryremove)
14.22 Ask to remove a catalog entry (centryremove_all)
14.23 Remove a catalog entry (centryremove_all_confirm)
14.24 Ask for confirmation before dump (cdump)
14.25 Dump a thematic catalog (cdump_confirm)
14.26 Query parameters for load (cimport)
14.27 Load a thematic catalog from file (cimport_confirm)
14.28 Query parameters for unload (cexport)
14.29 Unload a thematic catalog to file (cexport_confirm)

SQL manipulation CGI

15.1 Record edit form (edit)
15.2 Record update (update)
15.3 Search form (search_form)
15.4 Record insert form (sinsert_form)
15.5 Record insert (sinsert)
15.6 Record remove (remove)
15.7 Remove confirm (remove_confirm)
15.8 Search table (search)
15.9 Hook search (hook_search)

Catalog and HTTP server

18.1 Apache
18.2 cgi-bin errors
18.3 Using mod_perl