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BookEX Readme ------------- BookEX is a collection of Perl/database code for a web-based system geared towards college students wanting to buy/sell/trade textbooks with other students. Introduction It was originally started by the Student Government Association at the Univeristy of Texas at Dallas to create the Online Book Exchange as a service for our students. The project became very popular very quickly and outgrew the code base. Also, other schools started expressing an interest in creating similar systems for their own students. So, it was decided that a new system should be developed and released under the GPL. That's what you've just downloaded. Using the BookEX If you'd like to setup your own site using the BookEX you'll need to know how to develop webpages using HTML, CSS JavaScript, and the Template-Toolkit. Familiarity with Perl, CGI and MySQL will also be helpful. Now, you may want to subscribe to the announce mailing list to be notified when new code is released. The BookEX consits primarily of Perl code and the framework to develop HTML templates that interact with the Perl code. Sample templates are provided but the idea is that you will develop your own templates so that everyone using the BookEX code doesn't have identical web pages. See the INSTALL file for installation instructions. More Info For more info, you can contact Stuart Johnston (stuartj@users.sourceforge.net). Other resources are also available on the SourceForge Project Page (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bookex/).