Open Sourced Cataloguing Packages? 20
mcse_knowthyenemy asks: "I am cataloguing a HUGE private collection for a magician (No, we cannot waive a wand...) with an item count of at least 100k. The end result will be a searchable website. There are several Windoze packages that fit the bill (item data ad nauseum, image inclusion, reports, website). But these invariably requires numerous Microsoft products plus IIS. So, any input on a solution that is based on Apache, instead?" There are plenty of cataloguing and e-Commerce bases out ther that would work for this, one only has to perform a quick Freshmeat search to find them, however this being a museum, maybe there are better options? Would you use the already available software for this sitution or would you write something custom, instead?
However, (Score:1)
for a magician... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:for a magician... (Score:1)
google is real, he should use google.
Re:for a magician... (Score:2)
LDAP (Score:2, Interesting)
Poking around a little, it looks like there's a good (but old?) FAQ from Netscape [netscape.com], though there some other [mjwilcox.com] sources [sourceforge.net] of information [sourceforge.net] out [ldapzone.com] there [google.com].
Re:LDAP (Score:4, Funny)
LDAP is ***NOTHING*** like what he needs. It's not even close. You even say what LDAP is for in your post, but you state it in a way that makes it seem almost irrelevant. I feel like barfing.
He needs a SQL database, with maybe 20 minutes worth of design. Hell, not even anything complex, a small number of tables/relationships. I just don't understand anymore. 500,000 accounts on slashdot, and I'd bet my life 75% of them are trolls.
My god. You even have a relatively low user id. This makes no sense. It may be that the sole purpose of the universe, the single reason it was created, is simply to torture me with stupidity like this. I honestly can't think of any other plausible explanation.
Database (Score:1)
Re:Database (Score:2)
In my programming C# book, Microsoft has come a long way with using xml database recordsets. its kind of cool and pretty easy to implement. which works perfects in smaller applications.
custom work would be my shot (Score:2, Informative)
Re:"Waive" a wand? (Score:1)
Re:ad nauseum[sic] (Score:1)
Actually, I thought being smart was soliciting input from seriously-clueful techies such as read /.
Mea culpa.
Yet, some posters have been quite helpful.
LAMP (Score:2)
Easy as cake.
A Quick Freshmeat search? (Score:2)
4. cowsay
An easy way to add speaking and thinking cows to anything.
Yeah, that obviously applies. On top of that, did anyone notice the spelling of Catalog?
catalogue
That wouldn't have been my first attempt (was it Cliff's?).
And some of you wonder why the guy just asked ./ instead of looking for himself.
That's my project to learn mySQL, C, and perl (Score:1)
You have 2 options, roll your own or adapt somethi (Score:1)
When I moved from school to home the HD was destroyed and like a champ I didn't back any of it up. It only took me about 3 months of sporadic work (when I didn't have class and I was motivated). If you sat down and did it "full time" you could probably knock it out in a week or two. If you need any help mail me vader82[at]vader82[dot]net