Tabs On The Web
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- Overview:
Tabs on the Web (name is also still in beta, please send in your suggesstions, the one who wins gets a free copy of whatever it will be called) Is a Mac CGI program that makes it EASY to put up a simple searchable index of just about anything on the web, your corporate intranet, anyplace there is a Mac. It will let you maintain these records remotely via the web.If you have a copy of your corporate phone extensions stored in Excel that you print out each time there is a change and give out to everyone, then Tabs on the Web is a perfect solution! This is the example we're going to build in this demo.
All pages returned are based on templates that you can fully customize for your application.
- Personal Requirements:
Working with this program requires a basic knowlege of HTML and forms, but no other database or programming skills are necessary.
- Hardware Requirements:
This program will work with all the major Mac web servers, and also Personal Web Sharing that ships with every mac. So you dont need anything else to use this than what came with your machine.
- What it isn't:
Tabs on the Web will take a tab delimitted file and turn it into a searchable web page. The number of records it can handle is limited only by the memory available and the speed of your machine. I can easily handle 2000+ records on my 180Mhz 603e powerbook, so a modern Mac should be able to handle many thousands of records without a noticable performance hit. It is not a shopping cart app, it will not connect to an Oracle database, it will not do your dishes or select tomorrows outfit for you.
- Installing for Personal Web Sharing
- Configuring Tabs on The Web
- Session Managment
- Creating your Database
- Importing a Tab Deliminated File
- Creating Admin Users
- Browsing the database
- Working with the Templates