I decided I wanted to show (restricted) data views on the web in table form. Specifically, ‘stylish.db’ is a database provided by a chrome plugin. Here’s an example script, stylish.view, which displays the contents of that. It contains a comment saying which database it’s a query on, together with the query.
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-- stylish.db SELECT style, code, GROUP_CONCAT(section_meta.value) as 'website(s)' FROM (SELECT styles.name AS style, sections.code AS code,sections.id AS sections_id FROM styles INNER JOIN sections ON sections.style_id = styles.id) LEFT JOIN section_meta ON section_meta.section_id = sections_id GROUP BY style; |
The cool part here is that none of this was specific to stylish. I can quickly throw together a .view file for any database and put it on the web.
I add put any databases in cgi-bin/db, and add view.cgi to cgi-bin:
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#!/bin/bash # view.cgi echo "Content-type: text/html" echo QUERY_FILE="${PATH_TRANSLATED}" DB_NAME=$(head -n1 "${QUERY_FILE}" | sed -e 's/--\s*//') DB="/home/za3k/cgi-bin/db/${DB_NAME}" echo "<html><head><title>Query on #{DB_NAME}</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="db.css"></head><body><table id=\"${DB_NAME}\">" sqlite3 "$DB" -html -header <"${QUERY_FILE}" echo "</table></body></html>" |
I add this to apache’s .htaccess:
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Action view /cgi-bin/view.cgi AddHandler view .view |