View Single Post
Old 04-10-2008, 09:34 AM   #17
Redfox
aka Anne Lyle
Redfox ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Redfox ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Redfox ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Redfox ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Redfox ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Redfox ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Redfox ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Redfox ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Redfox ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Redfox ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Redfox ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Redfox's Avatar
 
Posts: 85
Karma: 437516
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Cambridge, UK
Device: Sony PRS-600
Quote:
Originally Posted by daudi View Post
Using the perl script idea we could use the manifest file and description field for entry. Here's the scenario:

We have a contentlister entry to run wikipedia. The user edits the description to say "iliad" (or whatever) using the iliad's built-in label editing facility, clicks on the entry and the script reads the description and uses that for input to the script. It then either creates a custom web page with the list of matches and fires up minimo for the user to select the result, or creates a contentlister entry for each result.
That doesn't sound very complicated - we write our entire website in Perl, handling hundreds of Gb of data and millions of hits a week

Mind you, I just hosed my iLiad trying to get the developer package installed, so it'll be a while before I can test Perl scripts on there! If it's a case of taking input and creating simple text-based files from the search results, that's the easy-peasy bit - but how is the search part supposed to work? Grepping the wikipedia file(s), or something more complicated?
Redfox is offline   Reply With Quote