Cataloguing the guestbook
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:49 am
There's been a fair bit of talk about the guestbook and the forums lately, and I've thought before it would be nice - generally for looking things up and for historical purposes - to put the contents of the guestbook into a nice database format.
I'd be willing to do the work for this - but I have almost no experience with databases and this sort of thing.
Could I have some advice on what would be a nice standardized format to store all the posts from the GB, so that for instance it would be easy to program a website to do things like searching with conditions on the name, contents of the post, restrictions on time period, etc? i.e. I might for instance wish to see every post Kamil made on the GB to follow his progress from beginner to pro.
I could probably hack some tables and rudimentary things together in python but likely it would be inflexible and not particularly useful for other people.
What do you guys think?
I'd be willing to do the work for this - but I have almost no experience with databases and this sort of thing.
Could I have some advice on what would be a nice standardized format to store all the posts from the GB, so that for instance it would be easy to program a website to do things like searching with conditions on the name, contents of the post, restrictions on time period, etc? i.e. I might for instance wish to see every post Kamil made on the GB to follow his progress from beginner to pro.
I could probably hack some tables and rudimentary things together in python but likely it would be inflexible and not particularly useful for other people.
What do you guys think?