Atkins Day 7. Running low on diet food. Going to get more tomorrow.

home.ooi.net is getting worked on. I built a user database, for which I will need to hack OpenBSD's adduser so it can add users to the SQL database when it adds them to the Unix system. I have PHP connecting to the database and generating a list of home pages and links on the fly. Because PHP creates a persistent database connection, this runs at a reasonable speed. Still, I have concerns about scalability and may make it a static page generated from a script. Some of the programming behind the scenes will have to be changed for this new backend.

I am also working out the kinks of a new site design. Perhaps I shouldn't say “new” design, because the site was never designed per se; it just glommed onto itself when new features were programmed. At any rate, the new interface categorizes information according to user needs, and the front page contains nothing but the goods: links to user home pages.

Finally, I am testing the Apache configuration so that each user can have a virtual host. When all this is done, we will have a snazzy site worthy of OhioOnline.