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What's New

Database hosting was enhanced to support accomodation of Markdown pages.
Markdown hosting service is now OPEN!

Let Me Try

The newly started service allows you to build a website that includes arbitrary Markdown pages as well as generate dynamic pages with database data. You can use extended features like multi-lingal authoring as described in Authoring.

The rest of this page describes how the database hosting is implemented. It is technical; you don't have to read it if you are just going to use the database hosting.

Live Data Embedder

The core part of the database hosting service is a set of perl scripts developed by Kobu.Com. It is called Live Data Embedder (or just Embedder). A source page is written in Markdown with simple marking syntax. When a web request comes, current data from a database table is dynamically embedded to the output web page.

Tools and Running Environment

The following tools are used to build the database feature of the Markdown hosting.

• A WikiText called Markdown is used to write a web page for entering and viewing data.
• A single-file SQL database backed by sqlite3 (SQLite v3) is used to store data tables.
• Live Data Embedder dynamically embeds table data into a Markdown source which is converted to HTML by Pandoc.
• HTML5 form entry check features are fully utilized.
• Apache web server and a set of support CGI scripts written in perl or bash are used to run the hosting service.
• A database owner can create and edit his/her database and markdown source pages using WebDav file sharing feature.
• The whole system is hosted in one or more rental virtual servers.

Source Code

The source code of the Embedder is published on github.

kobucom/livedata

Related Links

• Apache
• Pandoc

Other Links in This Site

• Docker for Markdown
• Markdown Authoring

Written 2020-Jul-17
Published 2020-Oct-24