[CWB] CQPweb: Suggestions for improvement (categories, POST)

[Noah Bubenhofer]

Hi,

after having installed revision 931 of cqpweb and some experience with CQPweb (the older versions...) I have the following suggestions to improve the software:

1. The rules for handles to build categories for the meta data from the xml text values is very strict. I have changed the following:

xml.inc.php:439:
        $test = '|^[\w _äöüÄÖÜßáàâéèêíìîóòôúùûçÇ\/\-]{0,' . $maxbytes . '}$|';

admin-lib.inc.php:656:
        $result = do_mysql_query("select distinct `$field` from text_metadata_for_$corpus where `$field` REGEXP '[^A-Za-z0-9_ äöüÄÖÜßáàâéèêíìîóòôúùûçÇ\-\/]'");

I did'n experience any problems with this solution. There might be a more elegant solution instead of naming all the accented characters.

2. Creating the metadata table from corpus XML annotations does not work if there are a lot of different xml annotations. This is due to the very long URI which results from the get form. Of course it is possible to reconfigure the web server allowing longer URIs, but I think the better solution would be to use POST instead of GET in the form.

I changed:
indexforms-admin.inc.php:830
<form action="metadata-admin.php" method="post">

And I changed all the necessary $_GET strings in metadata-admin.inc.php to $_POST. 

Best,
Noah




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