[Clipart] cchost hacking (was Re: Screenshot uploaded: age)

[Jon Phillips]

On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 15:07 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 09:33:51PM -0700, Michael Moore wrote:
> > On 10 Feb 2006 19:54:09 -0500, Jonadab the Unsightly One
> > <jonadab at bright.net> wrote:
> > > > I think we all know php well enough,
> > >
> > > I don't know PHP at all.
> > 
> > I know very little PHP. I regularly use <?php include('somefile.php')
> > ?>, and can do basic other code tweaks, but I couldn't sit down and
> > write anything.
> 
> Well, this could be an excellent opportunity to learn.  ;-)
> 
> Actually I think initially a lot of our work is just going to be
> replacing strings, not anything php-heavy.  For instance, once you've
> logged in, if you edit your profile, there's text that says 
> 
>   What I'm Looking For: List attributes of musicians you'd like to hook
>   up with (e.g. Producer, singer, drummer)"
> 
> We have to change stuff like that to be relevant to clipart artists.
> 
> So the work process is something like this:
> 
>    a.  Poke around on http://openclipart.org/cchost until you find some
>        text that isn't right for OCAL
> 
>    b.  Download the tarball and open it up, then search for the text.
> 
>        http://openclipart.org/cchost-1.0.3.tar.bz2
>        tar xjf cchost-1.0.3.tar.bz2
>        grep -sr "What I'm looking for" cchost-1.0.3/
> 
>    c.  Make a copy of the file, and then edit it to suit:
>    
>        cd cchost-1.0.3
>        cp some/file.php some/file.php-new
> 
>    d.  Create a patch like this:
> 
>        diff -u some/file.php some/file.php-new > some_file.diff
> 
>    e.  Post the patch here.  Put [PATCH] in the subject line so rejon
>        can find it easily.

Can you post this to the wiki...ideally, I can give you all some access
to cchost on sf.net so you can commit at will. I would like to just keep
an up-to-date CVS checked out copy of cchost as our main install...this
will save so much time!

Cool, try to keep the patches as general as possible so that I can
commit them to the project for overall usage. ccHost is supposed to
support as many file-types as possible, however, I can see where
specific wordings are important depending on one's project (as in our
case and ccmixter). Really, we need some solution that allows both
generic and automated specificity.

> > Timewise, I may be able to meet tomorrow, and would like to but my
> > wife is 6 days overdue, so I may not be arround. My inlaws are also in
> > town, so I'll be entertaining during various parts of the day.
> > 
> > Assuming no baby, and depending on the time, I could attend though.
> 
> Cool, well we'll keep it loose.  I ended up making some plans for
> tomorrow, but I've done a bit of hacking today, and probably will do
> some more off and on through the day.

Awesome!

> So give it a shot and see what you can do.  Like I said, most of the
> work should be pretty easy text replace stuff, CSS, and HTML.  Once we
> get comfortable, we can look into doing some of the more advanced
> stuff like the rotating screenshots.  :-)
> 
> Bryce
> 
> 

Yes, a lot also can be done from the admin interface!

We really need help in migrating the content to cchost and developing
infrastructure to import SVG.

Jon

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