October 17, 2002
Big changes happening inside Accipiter.org this morning. The front page weblog entries are now pulled directly from the MySQL database. I've just finished converting over the first of my weblog update scripts to use the MySQL backend rather than text files.
I wrote the original scripts in Perl, and they simply output the results of the entries into plain text files, which were then called by the main index via PHP. The new update scripts are written completely in PHP, and address the database directly, automatically inserting such happiness as the date, the time, and the database ID information. The interface is identical to the old scripts, so its use is exactly the same.
I'm working with a PHP frontend rather than Perl, because PHP seems to integrate with MySQL more cleanly than Perl would within my installation. Plus, I have PHP installed. I might as well make more extensive use of it.
Thanks to sakke and Eraser for their help.
(06:12)
Update: Right, this should indicate that I've successfully rewritten my updating script.
(09:02)
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