Hi Gabe, One approach that I've found to be extremely flexible is to generate the Exhibit JSON file (aka dataset) on-the-fly from a database. Doing it this way, you can do all sorts of things to subset the data, including using the current date as a baseline (only go out 3 months from today, only go back 2 weeks from today, etc). In my case, I use PHP for server side processing and MySQL for data storage.
You can see an example of this approach at: www.thisbeautifulgame.com Take a look at the source. There's a lot of code in there, but the important line is: <!--**********load JSON data**********--> <link href="../php/This.Beautiful.Game.Json.Generator.php" type="application/json" rel="exhibit/data" /> The PHP code consists of a query (with appropriate 'where clause') and a loop that formats the resultset as "Exhbit JSON". I think that you'll get the idea from there. HTH, -Mark On Oct 7, 9:20 am, Gabe Stanek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am interested in using Exhibit for a website application that I am > currently working on. I am looking to make a "Today in Art History" website > that shows important art history events each day, by automatically updating > from a database (or a .js file in exhibit's case). > > An example of a site that my site will be similar to is > here:http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/thisday/ > > Is it possible to have exhibit automatically filter out data to display from > a .js file based on the date? > > Thanks, > > -- > Gabe Stanek > > (413) 687-4763 > [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en.
