Tagging Engines

Tagging Engines

While http://delicious.com/ is a fantastic social bookmarking site, its not easy to implement inside a firewall, which needs to be done if the URL list to be tagged is an intranet resource.

Open Source alternatives

Here's some alternatives,

• Scuttle
• Akarru and even
• Slynkr

• Glassfish

Installing Scuttle

• Download WAMP - this works pretty much out of the box, only problem is if IIS is already running in which case you need to either let appache use anothe port, or turn it off. Use Phpmyadmin to create a new database and a user with rights to use the new database. Its best to sue the same name as the O/S user, document the password.
• Download Scuttle - this is a zip file and I had problems with Windows Vista as it has problems dealing with the file hierarchy names. Yu can download your favourite evaluation version of a tool, or I downloaded cygwin which since I used it to run the .sql file, I found useful and there is no problem with licence and uncompress | tar -x works fine.
• Download Cygwin - Not exactly mandatory, but I prefer it, every windows systems should have one.

B$ export PATH=${WAMPHOME}/bin/mysql/mysql${VERSION}/bin:${PATH}
B$ cd ${WAMPHOME}/www/${scuttlehome}
B$ mysql -P$DBPASSWD < tables.sql

• Configure PHP as a database client. Copy all the scuttle files to an appropriate location with the web server's public file system. ${ROOT}/scuttle is good, but I don't use it. Copy config.inc.php.example to config.inc.php, and amend the user, password and database values to the ones you have used and set. Add the line

error_reporting(E_ERROR);

to this file, otherwise you get a bunch of forward compatability warnings.

Tjhat's enough I'll write up my usability tests another day, I expect to repeat some of these notes on the project's sourceforge pages.