I just recently found this site but have been looking to solve a problem for some time now so maybe someone here can help.
I want to put a glossary system on my website. I would like to have one page or database where I place words and their definitions. Then throughout the site words from the glossary will be hyperlinked and by clicking on them a definition is brought up. I've achieved this already by simply using a javascript popup window that loads the glossary.htm page and places the chosen word at the top by using <a name=" "> target tags. I would rather have just the definition of the one word in question be loaded instead of the entire glossary.htm file.
What I think that I'm looking for is to have a mySQL db of terms and then when a hyperlinked word is clicked it popsup a small window and loads that term and def and maybe some additional options like 'close window' and 'see also:' terms that I've set to be relative to the word in question.
So, does anybody have any leads on something already available similar to this? I can use Perl, mySQL, or pretty much anything else that will run on Apache/Unix. Also, maybe some SSI's would work in some way?
Thank you for any suggestions.
I went there, got the package, followed the included instructions, and it worked exactly as it was advertised to.
Also, as you mentioned, I was able to modify the script files and now the thing does indeed work exactly like I wanted.
