FrancoToile

Talked with Mike Elkink and Greg about setting up a server to host FrancoToile on my mac for use at the EdMedia conference.

Downloaded and installed MAMP (universal binary) from mamp.info on the PowerPC G5 so I could host a copy of the FrancoToile site on my local computer. XAMPP (apachefriends.org) only works on Intel-based Macs, and if I used the built-in Apache server in the Mac OS, I'd then need to add the php support.

Only issues I encountered involved SQL (which I don't need to use): the MAMP gui doesn't let me turn just the SQL server off, and when I changed the default SQL pw as instructed I subsequently could not establish a connection to the SQL db.

Copied the entire FrancoToile site from my development directory into the htdocs directory.
Modified two paths in the config.php file in the FrancoToile site define('LANG_DIR'... and define('ABS_PATH'... and the videos played.
Local site is still addressing the eXist db on lettuce.

Next steps are:
to install an instance of eXist on the local computer
put the FrancoToile data into it
get the site on the localhost to successfully address that instance of the eXist db

Added two senegalese videos and empty transcript files.

Added two other videos and transcripts, but they are generating an error when trying to create the movie object and then every half second when that object is accessed. Not sure why.

Also made a few tweaks to the translation and presentation of the site.

1) get rid of PersName in display on page
2) correct spelling errors Residence - résidence, Origine - origine, plusiers - plusieurs, FR-get-results - Résultats, couple of strings to come from Marie-Claude
3) check into search on place names querying for either english name OR french name, both of which will be provided in the data
4) create a new superfolder with a static index page available to all, then put htaccess on the working subfolder, which contains all the rest of the pages of the site

Populated french internationalization file for FrancoToile with values Catherine gave me. Also made minor tweaks to page layout of banner heading and subheading.

Discovered that the text of the About page is currently using the same string of text as the tagline under the FrancoToile banner. Have to rewrite the about page to change that - simplest approach might be a simple php if/else clause around blocks of html hard coded on the page.
if ($session->GetVariable('language') == 'fr')

With Catherine and MarieClaude, reviewed francotoile. Following work to be done:
Add french text strings based on list provided by Catherine
Diagnose problem with IE6 not displaying the banner graphics and buttons properly.
Confirm how location and origin dropdowns are populated and update list of values for those lists
Apostrophe in search box causes error.
Check into code that is switching images on home page and see if that can be invoked on each page load.