Chapter-Oriented Literature / Art Content Management System

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Chapter-Oriented Literature / Art Content Management System

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Is there anything out there of this type? This is essentially what I'm currently developing, with a taste for genre sorting, chapter management. I'd like to model it somewhat after http://www.fanfiction.net/ There code is something that my project is striving towards: right now, it offers almost duplicate functionality except that I have to update everything manually.

But that's not the point.

The point is, are there any open source "content managers" aka 'online publisher scripts" that have already been made? I already did a cursory search and it turned up nothing, so I'd like to refine my code to something I can distribute... meh. Probably good for launching fanfiction sites.

Has anything of this sort passed through the scope of your experience?
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Huh? What are you asking for? A script that already does this or help for your current script?

I looked at FanFiction.Net and that is incredibly doable with PHP and MySQL. They are using mod_rewrite I assume to make the URL's like this site.com/cat/245/1/0/1/1/0/0 which would be similar to site.com?cat=245&meh=1&blah=0 etc.

You could set it up so people upload txt files and it renames them appropriately and then a PHP script just includes them perhaps?
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Huh? What are you asking for? A script that already does this or help for your current script?
A script that already does this. The Fanfiction.Net script is very well oiled, but of course, it's not open source or GPL or anything like that.
I looked at FanFiction.Net and that is incredibly doable with PHP and MySQL. They are using mod_rewrite I assume to make the URL's like this site.com/cat/245/1/0/1/1/0/0 which would be similar to site.com?cat=245&meh=1&blah=0 etc.
The way they handle their locations is not something I wish to emulate, but if you actually take a look at the internals of the site, it is actually going to be quite difficult to get ironed out completely. Main problem is getting stuff like Microsoft Word to work (yes, they support conversion of Microsoft Word to HTML) but not *just* that, but rather, a "good" conversion from Microsoft Word to Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional (I'm quite picky about that).

And there's so much more that you'd want to handle! Like in FanFiction.net they just blithely number everything from 1 to whatever, even if the first chapter is a prologue. And of course, no support for inline pictures. There's so much I'd like to expand upon, and that's basically what I've tried to do.

So... I'd like to see if there are any implementations of this idea out there. And of course, I have this minor problem of not actually using Databases at all (that's right! I'm so stupid!) so... it would be very interesting if anyone had a script with the functionality of Fanfiction.net.
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Neat! What google terms did you use?

EDIT | Funk! That's really funky! A script that relies on Register Globals! I don't think I'm going to like this script. http://efiction.sourceforge.net/modules ... s&id_cat=4
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http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/19513.html
Fictioneer Postnuke Module
This is the only other thing I found, however it is a PHPPost Nuke Module, so you will have to install PostNuke first I guess (never used this or the previous one)
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How do you find this stuff?

Hmm... having a huge dependecy on another script isn't exactly very appealing to me, but I'll take a look at it too. Thanks for the pointers!

EDIT| This is disturbing... it looks exactly the same as the eFiction script! Oh wow... there be no good fiction scripts out there but this? The 1.1 release is riddled with... well, it's heavily procedural (with it's complexity, that's not good). There's still hope! I may be able to release my project GPL! But not until I get it a lot better.
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depository and repository are some word that I used in my searches ;)
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Oh... that's interesting. Meh, and I was searching with the title of this topic. I'll remember that in the future.
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