Looking for a bookmark manager/server

Michel Di Croci michel.dicroci at gmail.com
Thu Oct 19 19:40:48 UTC 2006


2006/10/19, Kirk Lowery <empirical.humanist at gmail.com>:
>
> On 10/19/06, Michel Di Croci <michel.dicroci at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 2006/10/19, Kirk Lowery <empirical.humanist at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > >  On 10/19/06, Matt Davey <mcdavey at mrao.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 10:08 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> > > > > Kirk Lowery wrote:
> > > > > > For several years I've been using Bookmark4u, a
> > > > PHP-4/MySQL-based
> > > > > > bookmark manager, running it on my own webserver. There's been
> > > > no
> > > > > > update for more than three years and it's abandonware. No
> > > > problem,
> > > > > > except that moving to PHP5 breaks it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I've been looking around, but there doesn't seem to be any
> > > > actively
> > > > > > maintained bookmark server out there. I've looked at Bookmark
> > > > Manager
> > > > > > (BKM), but that, too, is two years out of date.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What are folks using these days?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > TIA!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Kirk
> > > > > I don't know about everyone else, but I've really like the Google
> > > > > BrowserSync Firefox extension.  I'm not entirely sure what you use
> > > > your
> > > > > BM manager for, so this may not be an appropriate suggestion, but
> > > > it
> > > > > works really well.
> > > >
> > > > I use onlinebookmarkmanager.com and am pretty happy with it.
> > >
> > >
> > > Ah, yes. I should have mentioned one of my requirements: I need to
> > > have control over the server. So I need server *software* to run on my own
> > > machine...
> > >
> > > Kirk
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> >
> > A do it yourself could be made. It would only require a DB and a simple
> > PHP script. It would requires a development of about 30 hours from a small
> > evaluation on my side and you will be able to put the features you want and
> > the search engine you need. Also you could export it easily to different
> > format that would allow you to import it in Firefox or Epiphany or whatever
> > you use. There is so much of possibilities from a development side.
> >
> > You can start with the already done development of BookMark4u.
> >
>
> Yes, this may be the best solution. I'm not dissatisfied with Bookmark4u.
> So I don't need to reimplement it; I don't need (at this point) new
> features. So it seems (in the absence of the existence of an actively
> maintained bookmarker server) the best solution will be to port it to PHP5.
> I can do that. I was just hoping I didn't have to spend the time learning
> PHP, and more, the differences between 4 & 5. I'm an academic programmer
> (meaning I learn what I need to accomplish my tasks) and am more comfortable
> with python, ruby and the like and don't normally use PHP. Oh, well. Another
> item for my CV... ;-)
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> Kirk


Why don't you use ruby on rails?

Michel


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