Update of Humanities Sites

The ISE search system is a temporary hack I wrote as an example of what might be done using eXist, but it's now running live on the site. It's using very old data, but the latest versions of the play files are too complicated to be inserted, so I've written some basic XSLT that strips out all the joinID attributes to simplify them. Running that, and fixing some XML errors in the original files, allows me to insert all but one of the files into the old eXist. The one remaining file is clearly disfunctional, so there's not much I can do with it.

Now the question is how to test this. I've got the new plays in a separate collection from the old ones, and with a modern eXist, I'd just rename the two collections, but the old version doesn't let me do that, so I'd have to delete the old ones and then replace them with the new, leaving the search functionality broken for a period. Waiting for updates from the ISE folks on whether there's a better approach using isebeta.

Updated the GRS Website with some new photos and a newsletter, sent by SB.

DS noted that in PIR site some browsers are having problems with javascript's document.lastModified method, so I replaced javascript based on this call:
var d = new Date(document.lastModified);

with php using this:
<?php
$filename = 'Call.php';
if (file_exists($filename)) {
echo "Updated: " . date ("d F Y", filemtime($filename));
}
?>

Added five year's worth of files on French Graduate Collouqiua to the French Department site. Entailed adding the header of many files to include references to the css, js etc. files in the new french web site. Because the grad colloquium pages are embedded in subfolders, also entailed modifying the header code in those files and in the menu.php file. Added snippet of code to handle $level = "L3" and to process paths correctly based on that value of that variable.

I updated the navigation and presentation for 2008 and 2007 colloquia. For earlier years, I removed problematic code and left the pages as plain html with no navigation to rest of site.

The image in the banner and the reference to the last updated code still needs to be modified to handle files calling it from other than the root of the web_pages folder (i.e. the index.php in the grad_colloquim folder at level L2 and the yearly subfolders of that folder at level L3).

I used css to hide the language-switch controls - when the dept has the French language content ready and imported into the documents, the css can be modified to make those controls visible.

The old site was in the web folder. I put the new one in the www folder and then had the webadmins change the symbolic link to point to the www folder.

I zipped the web folder (the old site) and put the zip file into the root of the account. An earlier incarnation of the site exists as another zip file. I then cleared out the web folder and place an index.htm redirect file, though it should be impossible to get to it in a browser.