An ASPAjaxWikiBlog Thingy

March 1, 2006

What’s this about an ASPAjaxWikiBlog Thingy?

Filed under: General

Um, it’s like a cool web application I made (codename TagMe) which tries to offer the functionality of a Blog and a Wiki of course using all the latest technology buzzwords:

  • AJAX
  • Wiki
  • Blog
  • Tagging
  • erm ASP?

It’s work in progress and I want people to download it, use it and provide feedback.

The system runs on any ASP-capable server (like IIS) and uses Microsoft SQL Server as a database. I’m sure it would work with MS Access too.

The database is nothing fancy and consists of 2 tables (data and tag).

The ASP side is also simple and consists of 3 pages:

  1. admin.asp -  The page for authors to edit their wiki/blog posts
  2. index.asp - The page for visitors to view the wiki/blog posts
  3. tagme.asp - The server side proxy for putting the "X" in AJAX

The client side functionality is in 4 scripts:

  1. tagme.js - The main functionality of managing and viewing posts
  2. ajax.jsl - Handles the communication with the server (tagme.asp)
  3. dhtml.js - Some basic DHTML functions
  4. dhtmlHistory.js - A cool library (aka. TSH) for managing back button behaviour in AJAX apps
The app is tested in FireFox 1.5 and IE6 and that’s good enough for me.

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