Trying to Find a Script - Manage Collection of Poems

[miss_beth]

I'm in need of a simple script to help me organize and help my visitors search for words/phrases in a collection of verses (similar to poems). I need several categories, each with a few sub categories. Within the subcategories, I would have various records (the verses). Visitors could view the entries by selecting a category, then a sub cat, and then browse the verses OR they could type a search phrase and have the matching entries returned.

Some sub cats will have many, many entries, so the script needs to have the capability to create multiple pages and include a nav bar with XX amount of verses on each page.

Another very important feature is that the entries, the verses, contain line breaks and would need to be displayed as such:

Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
etc.

preferably without me having to use special (or even html) tags within the entry (which would take forever to enter that way but I would do if that were the only option).

Oh, and last thing - some entries will fall in to multiple sub cats so that would need to be supported.

Any suggestions? PHP is fine, MySQL is fine, cgi is ok . . . I'm not too picky as long as it works. It doesn't need a lot of fancy features, basically just what I've described above. TIA for your time!

[Maximilian]

Originally Posted by miss_beth

Any suggestions? PHP is fine, MySQL is fine, cgi is ok . . . I'm not too picky as long as it works. It doesn't need a lot of fancy features, basically just what I've described above. TIA for your time!

Greetings - miss_beth!

I encourage you to browse the many free to low-cost PHP/MySQL & .cgi programs like the type you are referring to at:
http://ww.hotscripts.com/

I hope this helps!

Cheers!
Max

[miss_beth]

Hi Max. Thanks for the suggestion. Actually, I did browse there first before posting but didn't see what I needed. Most had way too many things I just don't need and I was hoping to find something simpler rather than spending a long time (and $$) having it modified.

I'll keep looking. Thanks again for answering.

[morpheus.100]

The problem here is that few web developers, amteur or professional share an interest in poetry, thus nobody has developed it.

[paulhiles]

Beth, I think the solution requires more than just a "simple script". What you describe in your initial post are the basic fundamentals of any content management system.

Granted, yours would be primarily text-oriented, but still with the requirements outlined, I would be looking for a basic News / content management system, and modifying to suit.