Re: Todo List

[Youcef Rabah Rahal <rahal at arabeyes dot org>]

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Salam,

Sorry to get back to you that late.

On Thursday 12 February 2004 02:19, oan wrote:
> Salam,
>
> im interested in finishing some points off the TODO-list nadim sent. i
> think i could start with the first point(s): Look & Feel

Cool.

> but first i need someone to walk me through the website structure and
> development. How do you edit the website?

The website's code (PHP) is on CVS:
   http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/www/

You have to read first the CVS howto:
   http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/howto/cvs-howto-en/

(wether or not you are already familiar with CVS, as it gives specific details 
concerning how _Arabeyes_ CVS works). You don't need a CVS account to 
checkout modules (section 2 of the howto shows how you can have access in 
anonymous mode).

After checking out the module, simply point your browser to the local dir 
where the PHP code is located and you have it live (you will need apache + 
PHP + mysql running on the server). Of course your mysql tables will be 
empty, but the table structures can be found in the arabeyes.sql file.

You can then actually start working on the code ;)

However, we are in the plan of localizing the website interface and I 
_personally_ prefer to have it done first before trying to do anything with 
the todolist. Because  I think that we will need some serious backend work on 
the code to make it maintainable (going object oriented would be a plus). As 
you'll notice soon, the code is rather difficult to apprehend.

Anyway, what I suggest now is that you try to get familiar with the code, test 
a few stuff while waiting for the localization to happen. As soon as it 
happens, we sure we'll need some hard workers ;)

Of course, if in the meantime you have some serious and nice enhancement to 
the website (with any of the todolist items), I suppose we'll have to take it 
into consideration rather quickly ;-)

Salam and don't hesitate to ask !

- -- 
Youcef R. Rahal
Arabeyes.org
http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal
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