[Isis-users] ABCD 2.0f

Edwin Hübner edwin.hubner at gmail.com
Sat May 23 20:57:33 CEST 2020


Dear Egbert,
What is the current default user and PW for the ABCD-site CMS?
I tried with the old one, but it doesn't work and can't find it in
ABCofABCD_20f manual.

Reagrds

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Edwin Hübner
(5521)99647-1675


Em sex., 22 de mai. de 2020 às 19:00, Edwin Hübner <edwin.hubner em gmail.com>
escreveu:

> Thank you, Egbert
>
> Em sex, 22 de mai de 2020 15:28, Egbert De Smet <
> egbert.desmet em uantwerpen.be> escreveu:
>
>> Issues 2 and 3 are exactly what we have been focusing on for quite some
>> time now in developing version 2.2 since we know that it is not perfectly
>> smooth yet. Mixing ANSI and UTF8 (unicode) databases in one system is
>> highly ambitious anyway, in fact a rather unique endeavor. Main reason is
>> the observation that most users currently only use ANSI (the 'old' default)
>> but hopefully new users will use Unicode. It would have been much easier to
>> force everybody to Unicode/UTF8, so maybe we have too much respect for the
>> old users-community ?
>>
>> The logic is this :
>>
>> - abcd.def defines the default setting : unicode or ansi
>>
>> - if a database diverts from this, put the parameter (UNICODE=1) in its
>> own dr_path.def file (same reasoning for the version of CISIS, e.g. 1660 or
>> bigisis).
>>
>>
>> For issue 3, which relates to the display charset, in 2.2 a new variable
>> '$charset' is introduced but in the end there will always remain display
>> errors, e.g. when a Unicode catalog is combined with a ANSI loanobjects on
>> the same page displayed. Again there would be one real solution : get rid
>> of ANSI. But most people west of Eastern Europe will resent this option.
>>
>> Also Apache has its own charset parameter, not only the browser and PHP,
>> so you always end up with a potential mess of settings...
>>
>>
>> Egbert de Smet
>> Universiteit Antwerpen
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Edwin Hübner <edwin.hubner em gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Friday, May 22, 2020 8:18 PM
>> *To:* Egbert De Smet
>> *Cc:* isis-users
>> *Subject:* Re: [Isis-users] ABCD 2.0f
>>
>>
>> Thank you Egbert. What about other issues? numbered 2 and 3? Is there a better solution?
>>
>> Edwin Hübner
>> (5521)99647-1675
>>
>>
>> Em sex., 22 de mai. de 2020 às 15:08, Egbert De Smet <
>> egbert.desmet em uantwerpen.be> escreveu:
>>
>>> Edwin,
>>>
>>>
>>> what we have now in the working version of config.php is this :
>>>
>>> //IF THERE ARE MULTIPLE BASES FOLDERS THE FOLDER SELECTED IS SET
>>> if ( isset($_SESSION["db_path"]) and  $_SESSION["db_path"]!="")
>>>      $db_path=$_SESSION["db_path"];
>>>
>>> So that is basically the same idea. Anyway if it works with your version
>>> it is o.k.
>>>
>>>
>>> Egbert de Smet
>>> Universiteit Antwerpen
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* isis-users <isis-users-bounces+egbert.desmet=
>>> uantwerpen.be em iccisis.org> on behalf of Edwin Hübner <
>>> edwin.hubner em gmail.com>
>>> *Sent:* Friday, May 22, 2020 7:46 PM
>>> *To:* isis-users
>>> *Subject:* [Isis-users] ABCD 2.0f
>>>
>>> Dear,
>>> I still have problems with ABCD 2.0f.
>>> 1. it did not recognize the option of defining more than one database
>>> folder. For example, if I have the following in dbpath.dat:
>>> /ABCD/www/bases/IBJB/|IBJB
>>> /ABCD/www/bases/|default
>>>  and selecting the first option (IBJB) on the login screen, it prsents
>>> the databases of the /bases folder (default) on the data entry screen. I
>>> was able to solve this by adding the following lines to config.php:
>>> $msg_path="/abcd/www/bases/";
>>> if (isset($_SESSION["DATABASE_DIR"])) {
>>> $db_path=$_SESSION["DATABASE_DIR"];
>>> }
>>> if (!file_exists($db_path."abcd.def")){
>>> echo "Missing  abcd.def in the database folder"; die;
>>> }
>>> $def = parse_ini_file($db_path."abcd.def");
>>>
>>> Is that ok?
>>>
>>> 2. Having set the parameters UNICODE=0, MXPATH=/ABCD/www/cgi-bin/ and
>>> encoding=ansi, it gives an error when opening a database, presenting the
>>> line: CISIS version: http://127.0.0.1:9090/cgi-bin/utf8/wxis.exe
>>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A9090%2Fcgi-bin%2Futf8%2Fwxis.exe&data=02%7C01%7Cegbert.desmet%40uantwerpen.be%7C2fa9ff8002724bb11dfa08d7fe7c9c61%7C792e08fb2d544a8eaf72202548136ef6%7C0%7C0%7C637257683465337142&sdata=gbmiPQe%2FyhR1ycA2%2BjNcTzgrgyc5I2CaLpcESrmKaIM%3D&reserved=0>,
>>> that is, trying to use
>>> wxis from the .../utf8 folder.
>>> I solved it copying wxis from the  .../cgi-bin folder to
>>> .../cgi-bin/utf8/
>>>
>>> but how to solve this?
>>>
>>> 3. Diacritics for ansi, I got it only by Renate's suggestion, forcing
>>> ini_set('default_charset','ISO-8859-15');
>>> in config.php.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Edwin Hübner
>>> (5521)99647-1675
>>>
>>
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