Metakit@Web

Metakit@Web is a web-based admin-interface for metakit-files

Metakit@Web is a web-administration-interface for metakit-files and works with Tclhttpd. It’s like the well known phpMyAdmin but only for metakit-database-files and only suited for the real tcl-webserver.

News

• June 04 – Metakit@Web (0.5) is now distributed as a sample-app in TclHttpd 3.5.1
• April 04 – Jean-Claude Wippler has built a starkit of Metakit@Web (downloadable at http://www.equi4.com/pub/sk/mkatweb.kit) – Thanks Jean-Claude.
• February 04 – Released version 0.6

Introduction

Metakit@Web is an administration-interface written for TclHttpd. It can be used to administrate metakit-database-files. I’m using it as a rapid-prototyping-tool to develop data-models and quickly store and edit data.

The features of Metakit@Web (version 0.6) in detail:

• easy installation in TclHttpd (just extract the zip-file into your htdocs-directory)
• easy creating, editing, manipulating Metakit-files (useful for rapid-prototyping)
• easy browsing through content of Metakit-files
• if you have stored images inside you metakit, you can easily look at them through the browser-interface
• session-support (with row-locking) (not supported by 0.5)
• htaccess-support (not supported by 0.5)
• multi language-support (thanks to Miko le pépé) (not supported by 0.5)

There are now two different versions of Metakit@Web with two different techniques used.

• version 0.5: consists of only one file and is implemented as a Direct_Url
• version 0.6: is a htdocs-directory and allows you to have .htaccess files and sessions.

Version 0.5 can still be downloaded but I won’t do any more work on it.

Here is a screenshot of Metakit@Web (0.5/0.6):

Installation

Installation is quite simple (as always with Tclhttpd):

• Download mkatweb_06.zip
• Extract the zip-file into your htdocs-directory
• (For version 0.5 you have to put the tcl-file int the Tclhttpd-custom-directory. For some version 3.4.2 you may have to patch your Tclhttpd so that custom-files are read. Be sure to remove version 0.5 if you want to install 0.6)
• Create a directory where you want to place your metakit-files (e.g: /metakits or c:/metakits)
• Adapt the directory-setting in .tml (e.g. set the array aConfig(databaseDir) to /metakits or c:/metakits). You will get prompted if the directory doesn’t exists and may configure it via the configuration-dialog.
  (in version 0.5 adapt the variable in mkweb_05.tcl)
• Go to http://your.domain/mkatweb (or version 0.5 http://your.domain/mkweb)
• Read the help which is shown in the content-frame.

Download

• Metakit@Web (version 0.6)
• Metakit@Web (version 0.5)

History

6. Feb. 2004

Released version 0.6: Now released as zip-distribution.

4. Sep. 2003

Released version 0.5: The last “one-file”-version of Metakit@Web.

1. Sep. 2003

Initial version 0.4.

References

• Metakit
• TclHttpd
• Wikit-page
• Reference on “Equi4″