$Id: README,v 1.6 1999/04/14 11:48:06 ecila40 Exp $ What is it ? ------------ Catalog is a perl program that allows to create, maintain and display Yahoo! like directories. The user interface is 100% HTML. It requires a MySQL database to run. The general idea behind the design of Catalog is that creating a catalog is mainly a matter of organizing objects in a structured tree. For Catalog the objects are records in a table of the SQL database. The structured tree is a set of tree nodes and relations between these nodes. The maintainer of the catalog is in charge of building the tree and placing objects in this tree. Here is a short list of the functions provided by Catalog: * Display structured trees of resources. * Display chronologically ordered resources and associated calendar. * Display alphabetical indexes of resources. * Allow full text search in the resources and the category names. * Powerful HTML based administration of catalogs. * On-Line editing of resource records. * Handle an arbitrary number of catalogs. * High performances using mod_perl and Apache. * Easy customization of the user view using HTML template files. * It is possible to define more than one view of the same catalog. * Load and unload a thematic catalog in XML. * Create an HTML dump of a structured tree to publish a static version. * Complete documentation including a guide and a reference manual. * Ready to use example. Where is the documentation ? ---------------------------- If you have installed Catalog, it is on your local machine (see the Where is it installed section below). If you didn't install Catalog, you can take a look at http://www.senga.org/. How to install it ? ------------------- See the INSTALL file for installation instructions. Where is it installed ? ----------------------- The main program is a file named Catalog that is installed in the cgi-bin directory of the HTTP server running on your local machine. The HTML documentation starts with a file named catalog_toc.html in the HTML tree of the HTTP server running on your local machine (the path you specified with the HTMLDIR variable when installing Catalog). Where can I download it ? ------------------------- The Catalog home page is http://www.senga.org/download.html Loic Dachary loic@senga.org http://www.senga.org/