Or use this, by me
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/bookmarkpress/
which was sort of spun out of a plugin written at the OER hack day in
2011
On 2016-02-16 11:37, Fred Riley wrote:
> Pat, I've been whirling with Wordpress for many years now, and whilst
> it's a fine CMS and small- to medium-sized web design tool, it sucks
> as a links database for all sorts of reasons, not least that it
> ditched the LInks library in v2.8 or so. Indeed, my hope is that I
> might be able to write a WP plugin to remedy this lack.
>
> Fred
> www.fredriley.org.uk [1]
>
> On 15 February 2016 at 15:53, Pat Lockley (Pgogy)
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Guess it depends on how many parents an item can have.
>> If you want a one parent hierarchy, then give WordPress or Drupal a
>> whirl
>>
>> On 2016-02-15 10:00, Fred Riley wrote:
>>
>>> Although this query isn't specifically OER, it is
>>> repository-related,
>>> and OER and repositories go together like bread and butter. I
>>> posted
>>> the following to Stack Exhange on 18th January and got a -1
>>> rating and
>>> no replies for my troubles, so plainly it was inappropriate. I
>>> also
>>> tried the Jiscmail CETIS list and it dropped into a cyberspatial
>>> black
>>> hole. So, can anyone on this board, particularly anyone with
>>> experience of designing repositories with multi-level taxonomies,
>>> point me towards example designs? Although my Q is initially
>>> about a
>>> personal site, I realised quickly that it's also applicable to
>>> repositories implementing taxonomies, and of course many
>>> large-scale
>>> repos (eg Intralibrary, DSpace) do exactly that.
>>>
>>> If this query is at too detailed a technical level for this
>>> board, do
>>> please point me to more appropriate fora which I can query.
>>>
>>> Thanks :)
>>>
>>> Fred
>>> www.fredriley.org.uk [1] [1]
>>>
>>> ---------
>>>
>>> I'm looking to implement a small static site of mine (CALL@Hull
>>> [2])
>>> in a relational database. The site already has a shallow
>>> hierarchical
>>> data structure (taxonomy), to which I might want to add another
>>> hierarchy or two. I've looked at the thread "Creating Taxonomy
>>> table
>>> in MySQL" [3] from a few years back, which opened my eyes up to
>>> the
>>> concepts of Adjacency Lists and Nested Set models, outlined in
>>> some
>>> detail in the the article Managing Hierarchical Data in MySQL
>>> [4].
>>> Another useful thread is "What are the options for storing
>>> hierarchical data in a relational database?" [5].
>>>
>>> My question: is there an example hierarchical database
>>> application/diagram which I could study to get my head around
>>> storing
>>> taxonomies in a relational DB?
>>>
>>> I'll be implementing in PHP (Codeigniter) and MySQL, but I'm
>>> really
>>> after seeing the database and application structure at a design
>>> level.
>>> If this doesn't count as a programming or DB design question then
>>> my
>>> apologies for posting in the wrong place.
>>>
>>> I'm also into (educational) metadata schemas and learning object
>>> repositories, so it would be useful for me to understand more
>>> general
>>> solutions to this topic. I'm looking at small-scale databases (eg
>>> <10k
>>> records) so am not bothered about execution times for different
>>> approaches.
>>>
>>> -----
>>>
>>> Links:
>>> ------
>>> [1] http://www.fredriley.org.uk [1]
>>> [2] http://www.fredriley.org.uk/callhull [2]
>>> [3]
>>>
>>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4240433/creating-taxonomy-table-in-mysql
>>> [3]
>>> [4]
>>>
>> http://mikehillyer.com/articles/managing-hierarchical-data-in-mysql/
>>> [4]
>>> [5]
>>>
>>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4048151/what-are-the-options-for-storing-hierarchical-data-in-a-relational-database
>>> [5]
>>
>> --
>> Pgogy Webstuff
>> pgogywebstuff.com [6]
>
>
>
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://www.fredriley.org.uk
> [2] http://www.fredriley.org.uk/callhull
> [3]
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4240433/creating-taxonomy-table-in-mysql
> [4]
> http://mikehillyer.com/articles/managing-hierarchical-data-in-mysql/
> [5]
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4048151/what-are-the-options-for-storing-hierarchical-data-in-a-relational-database
> [6] http://pgogywebstuff.com
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