palabra 0.8

Copyright 2003 - 2005 Ramiro Gómez. All rights reserved!

This program is offered without warranty of any kind. See the file LICENSE for redistribution terms.

Summary

Palabra is a web-based dictionary that lets users edit the descriptions of the entries. It is written in Perl and uses a MySQL database. Entries are case-sensitive and not censored. All users can edit descriptions of the chosen word. Descriptions may contain certain HTML-Tags to structure the content. Disallowed tags are stripped. Users can add translations for existing words for all available languages.

Requirements

• A web server

• MySQL

• Perl 5.008 or higher

• Perl Modules:

  • CGI

  • DBI

  • DBD::mysql

  • HTML::Parser

  • Locale::Maketext

  • Net::SMTP

Todo

• Modularization

• I18N, L10N

• Error handling

• Support for PostgreSQL

• Documentation

• Generic browse function

• Input validation

• Statistics

• Table Lock

Known bugs

• many error screens

• edit_word.cgi descriptions may corrupt layout

• show_index.cgi show languages instead of translations

• translate.cgi box with translations not visible

• contact.cgi show languages instead of translations