tim's journal

Bible in a Year

It would be nice to have a calendar with links to the passages of the day, and a check-off box after you read the passage (or maybe when you click on the link?) Then you could track it over time. Sort of like:

Numbers 30
Psalm 74
Isaiah 22
2 Peter 3

On activating the link it should submit the checkboxes updating a database or flat file.

Overview. Several things need to be done. First, I must convert the chart into a PHP readable flat file. I just did this. It took about 15 minutes of cutting and pasting into an excel file. This can then be turned into a comma-delimited or tab-delimited file. Next I have to figure out how to do array indexing using PHP - rows, columns, index. Then I have to get the link made to Bible Gateway. Finally I have to find a way of keeping track of clicks per user. This will probably be last, before that I just want to have a daily list of what to read and links to that.

Digitization. Done. I used "=concatenate(text(MONTH,"00"),text(DAY,"00"))". This will be the index.

PHP indexing. Can we do it. Fortunately yes. I found a clue here.

Posted by torque at May 21, 2003 7:28 AM