[GRASS5] GRASS web site restructured: now PHP based

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Dear GRASS Community,

I have renovated the major part of the GRASS web site
and introduced a PHP based menu system. This should
simplify the navigation (also maintenance).
Also lots of pages were moved to subdirectories to
"cluster" by topic.

It should appear the next days on the mirror sites.
The major part of the mirror web server support PHP;
those without PHP support yet have to be contacted to
get PHP added.

The developers with CVS write access are kindly invited
to continue with pages which are lacking an update.

The pages are also accessible with text based web browsers :slight_smile:

Enjoy,

Markus

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Markus Neteler <neteler itc it> http://mpa.itc.it
ITC-irst - Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica
MPBA - Predictive Models for Biol. & Environ. Data Analysis
Via Sommarive, 18 - 38050 Povo (Trento), Italy

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On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:13:44PM -0500, Helena wrote:

Markus,

this is really great - much easier to navigate and find things.
Did you use any special software tools to do that or did you
just pick up a template from somewhere and worked directly with source?

The pages are all handmade...[1], so just update from Web-CVS and
edit. Every page has a:
- .php part which constructs the menus
- .inc part which contains the text.

It should be pretty easy to add/modify.
Still some pages have to be updated but I am out of town
from tomorrow onwards.

The main advantage is that menus are written one time only per
section. The friendly 'include' function of PHP then makes it
all possible.

Please feel free to edit/add/modify.

Markus

[1] See:
    http://www.saki.com.au/mirror/vi/pics/vi.fischer.handcrafted_using_vi.png
    (in fact, it was done with vim :slight_smile: