The WWWISIS Handbook (for Versions 4 and 5) by Andrew Buxton

THE WWWISIS HANDBOOK (FOR VERSIONS 4 AND 5)
Andrew Buxton
Information Systems Manager
Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex
March 2002

CONTENTS
1. Introduction to CDS/ISIS and WWWISIS
1.1 CDS/ISIS
1.2 Software from BIREME
1.3 Versions of WWWISIS
2. Introduction to web publishing
2.1 Client-server architecture
2.2 Uniform resource Locators (URLs)
2.3 HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
2.4 Other markup languages
2.5 The Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
3. Installation of WWWISIS
3.1 IP settings
3.2 Installing the webserver software
3.3 Licensing of WWWISIS
3.4 Installing WWWISIS
3.5 Creating and loading ISIS databases
4. Introduction to IsisScripts
4.1 Extensible Markup Language (XML)
4.2 IsisScript
4.3 Content type
4.4 Tasks
4.5 Parameters
4.6 Loops
4.7 cipar
4.8 gizmo
4.9 Flow control
4.10 Comments
5. CGI variables and environment variables
5.1 Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
5.2 The input form
5.3 Reading the values
5.4 Using the values in an IsisScript
5.5 Scope of variables
5.6 Environment variables
6. Performing a search and displaying the results
6.1 A simple search script
6.2 Enhancing the display of the results
6.3 Enhancing the search form
7. Accessing the inverted file
7.1 A form for displaying part of the index file
7.2 The IsisScript for displaying the index
8. Creating and editing records
8.1 The Update task
8.2 Record locking
8.3 A form for creating new records
8.4 The IsisScript for creating new records
8.5 A form for editing an existing record
8.6 The IsisScript for editing a record
9. The IAH Interface
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Installation
9.3 Initial configuration
9.4 Searching the sample databases
9.5 Setting up your own database
9.6 Order of records in display
9.7 URL for searching your database