HOWTO: Database

Apart from the very basic Gaby personal database, which is designed to keep a record of contacts, Puppy has a sophisticated SQL database system called Quisp.

Quisp is a client to an SQL database called shsql, and tools are in Puppy for creation and editing of shsql databases. Quisp is a CGI program and is accessed by a web browser. Puppy has the nullhttpd http web server, to which a web browser can connect, either locally or over a network. Basically, a web browser provides a GUI frontend, with all the power of HTML and Javascript, with Quisp providing the CGI interface to the powerful shsql backend.

Puppy has an overview document for Quisp: quisp_overview.html

However, the full documentation for Quisp and shsql documentation is not in Puppy.
Please go to the website at: http://quisp.sourceforge.net.
The developer of Quisp is Steve Grubb.

The nullhttpd help page is in Puppy: nullhttpd.txt
The homepage for nullhttpd is: http://nullhttpd.sourceforge.net

Quisp is installed and ready to go in Puppy. Just go to the "Information managers/Quisp network SQL database" menu entry and the httpd http server will start and a mini-web-browser will start, set to http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/quisp.

Quisp is setup in Puppy with an example database, located in /root/ghttpd/quisp/pages/. You may play with the files and substitute your own database.

Here is my rough sketch of how httpd, Quisp and shsql are installed in Puppy:

quisp setup picture