Introducing Pagethrough
Pagethrough is a tiny webapp I wrote a while back to simplify archiving and viewing local copies of README.txts, public domain books and videogame walkthroughs. It presents each text file as a searchable, paged document that automatically remembers the last viewed “page” from a given text file. Perfect for laptop-lounging with the DS and playing through ports of old favorites.
Pagethrough is free, offered as is and assumes you know how to set up and access a local webserver capable of running PHP (not too difficult with something like MAMP). Do not install Pagethrough on a public webserver.
ASCII logotype inspired by piecemealcranky’s FF XII game script.
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012 Comments
That’s fantastic. I can see this being very useful down the road. Good job.
With this FF6 name dropping and the recent Mega Man 2 tribute in Mint, I must say, you have truly excellent taste in games :)
Fun little app. Once I have longer txts to read, I’m sure this will come in very handy. Thanks! Greetz from Philly from a former Baltimore resident :)
I must say, this is a great little app. I restarted MAMP just to see it work. :)
Ooooo, this’ll be fun to use. :D
Just by the way, I had to add a stripslashes() call to line 449 on the $selected_file. Nice, though. I’ll definitely be using this.
Thanks guys. Steve, I need to find a way to name drop Actraiser too (wait, does that count?) ;)
Very sweet!
Ooh, I don’t think I’ve ever tried Actraiser. Time to fire up the ol’ emulator.
Sweet idea. I always lose my place in gamefaqs. Much better than searching by chapter tite. Game on,
This is going to be VERY useful down the road.
I just want to make it clear that Pagethrough is intended for local use only (on your computer—not a public server). There is no error checking or protection against malicious code. It may be possible for someone to access any file on your server by POSTing different paths to Pagethrough (depending on how your server is set-up).
Like the
README.txtsays, Pagethrough is offered AS IS. You assume all risk using it, both in ways it was intended and ways it was not.