On Fri, 12 May 2000, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > The project in question: a generic ratings and comments engine for a > > website. The things being rated could be anything, but site visitors > > should be able to vote on various survey questions for each > > (book|movie|restaurant), and add their comments. Visitors should also > > be able to add (books|movies|restaurants). > > > Anyone seen anything like this, or know where I should look? I looked > > on freshmeat already. > > Another thing you could try is look for sites that are run by an open-source > web app server. There are only a small number of popular ones - Zope and > Midgard come to mind. Find sites that use them, and see if any of them have > something like what you're talking about. *nod* I know of Zope, and it seems like one possible Right Solution here. I don't know as much about Midgard. Either way, my ideal solution would be in a language that's commonly found on hosting providers (PHP, Perl?). So I may ask on the PHP list. (I don't want to have to run my own server; i only have cable-modem bandwidth, and I don't trust my skills at securing boxen that much.) srl ----- Shane Renee Landrum slandrum<@>cs.smith.edu _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
