SlashFoaf

From FOAF

A common FoafProject FAQ is "can we adapt the Slash system (eg. as used as Slashdot to expose FOAF data. This page documents our attempts to do just this.

  * for a patch to add FOAF to Slashcode R_2_3_113 see sf.net slashcode patch tracker
  * for a draft add-on from Alessio, see rdfweb-dev msg

Some notes from Alessio Bragadini:

The Friend/Foe mechanism uses a plugin
named "Zoo". A plugin for Slash is a script, some libraries, some
templates and maybe some database tables. For Zoo the script is called
zoo.pl and you can call it with parameters for different actions or even
output in RSS format. For example

http://slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=friends
http://slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=fans&content_type=rss

(http://slashdot.org/my/friends is just a Apache alias to the real URL

An "op=" parameter maps to a subroutine inside zoo.pl so I am thinking
to a foaf subroutine mapping op=foaf and spitting out text/xml.
I say op=foaf rather than content_type=foaf (as similar to =rss) because
it seems to me that the FOAF output is fixed (a list of friends) rather
than dependent on the parameter provided. It seems to be that a query
like http://slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=foes&content_type=foaf would not make
much sense - correct me if I'm wrong.

The target is to have a
http://slashdot.org/zoo.pl?op=foaf
mappable to
http://slashdot.org/my/foaf

Notes on getting Slash installed:

  * Get Apache and mod_perl running OK first
  * ensure you have all the Perl packages listed in Bundle::Slash

You need to stick with Apache 1.X (not Apache 2!) because mod_perl for Apache 2 is not stable and some modules have not been ported yet.

Perl package notes:

  * Email::Valid failed a test (mxcheck? hard to tell given the way perl tests are structured)