10/22/2003 [Stefan Vogel]

I just wanted to get familar with metakits. So I build up a very simply but still useful (at least for me) ''Webadministration-Interface'' for [MetaKit].

This webadministration '''Metakit@Web''' works with [Tclhttpd]. 

With ''Metakit@Web'' (Version 0.4) you can:
   * create metakit-database-files
   * create, modify, delete views
   * create, edit, delete rows
   * view binaries
   * test queries ...

Installation is quite simple (as always with Tclhttpd):

   * Download the script "mkweb.tcl" from http://www.vogel-nest.de/tcl (or http://www.freewebs.com/vogel-nest/tcl/)
   * Copy the script "mkweb.tcl" to your tclhttpd-custom-directory (may be you have to patch your Tclhttpd so that custom-files are read: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=635083&group_id=12884&atid=112884 )
   * Create a directory where you place your metakits (let's say: /metakits or c:/metakits)
   * Adapt the directory in mkweb.tcl (e.g. set the array aConfig(databaseDir) to /metakits or c:/metakits)
   * restart Tclhttpd
   * Go to http://<yourdomain>/mkweb

Or you simply can run it with tclhttpd.kit (thanks to [jcw] for that info). Download tclhttpd.kit from http://mini.net/sdarchive/ .
 mkdir htdocs
 mv mkweb.tcl htdocs
 date >htdocs/index.html         # just to have an index file
 cp tclhttpd.kit >htdocs/try.mk  # just to have a sample datafile
 tclkit tclhttpd.kit -docRoot `pwd`/htdocs -library `pwd`/htdocs


'''Attention'''

This Webadmin-interface was developed only for me and my local installation of Tclhttpd.

   * Currently there is no security implemented! Everyone who can access your webserver can access your metakits!!
   * Only one user at a time should access Metakit@Web because the configuration-values are globally set (no sessions). Maybe someone wants to make this script session-aware?
   * Be sure that no spider follows the links on the page (the delete-operation is available as a link, so be careful).

Next steps/Missing features:
   * make it session-aware

You've been warned. But now ... have fun:

... '''Script removed''' ... 

10/23/2003 [Stefan Vogel] O.k. even though the complete Webadministration of Metakits was only about 600 LoC, it's a little bit to much for the Wiki.
You can download the script "mkweb.tcl" from: 

http://www.freewebs.com/vogel-nest/tcl/


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''Wow! -[jcw]''

[[http://mini.net/pub/mkweb.png]] - is a screenshot of version 0.4 showing a subview (not embedded).

And this is an actual one (although the Mac-Screendump looks a lot nicer!!!):
[http://www.freewebs.com/vogel-nest/tcl/mkweb.png]

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[rmax] - This looks very nice indeed!

But I keep getting the following error
whenever I invoke a link, that changes anything (creating/deleting databases,
modifying views, adding rows, etc.):

[[Stack trace and further discussion deleted  - because error is fixed]]

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This is a terrific tool. Thank you! I've found a problem with the script that causes the textareas for editing a row to be rendered incorrectly (at least in Mozilla), it's line 609 which should be changed from this:

[[Error-description deleted because it is fixed]]

- [WJR]
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10/29/2003 Version 0.4 released

''I've updated the screendump for OS X as well -[jcw]''

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