PADmap Kit v1.0 (19 Nov, 2008)

Download: padmap.zip (6kB)

This set contains 3 files:

1. PADmap generator script

(for software authors)

Description: This is PHP script to generate and display PAD URLs list in plain text mode by reading PAD file names in the current directory on your server.
For more details on PADmap protocol see: http://www.padmaps.org

Usage: Simply upload this script to the directory on your server where you store all your PAD files.
Example: http://www.easyhtools.com/files/

Note: If you store your PAD files in different directories, you will have to create your PADmap text file manually.

2. PADmap extension for PADGen

(for software authors)

Description: This is the PADGen (PAD generator software) extension which allows you to specify the PADmap URL on your server containing all your PAD URLs inside your PAD files.

Usage: Simply put this file in your PADGen program folder (by default: 'C:\Program Files\PADGen'), restart PADGen application, fill up the extension on "PADmap" tab, save your data and generate PAD file. The following XML code will be added to your PAD XML data inside <XML_DIZ_INFO> tag:

<PADmap>
    <PADmap_FORM>Y</PADmap_FORM>
    <PADmap_DESCRIPTION>
        Link to plain text file containing all your PAD URLs from current host
    </PADmap_DESCRIPTION>
    <PADmap_VERSION>1.0</PADmap_VERSION>
    <PADmap_URL>http://www.padmaps.org/padmap.htm</PADmap_URL>
    <PADmap_SCOPE>Company</PADmap_SCOPE>
    <PADmap_Location>http://www.yourdomain.com/pads/padmap.txt</PADmap_Location>
</PADmap>

Where <PADmap_Location> specifies the URL of PADmap containing all your PAD URLs in plain text mode.

Now all PAD enabled sites can easily read all PAD URLs from specified PADmap URLs using (3) to add missing ones to their DBs.

3. PADmaps lookup script

(for PAD enabled sites webmasters)

Description: This is PHP script to pick up the PADmap_Location field from all submitted PAD URLs (one URL per row) and generate the complete list in plain text mode to send it to your email address, having excluded all PAD URL duplicates.

Usage: Simply upload padmaplookup.php script to your server, open it in your browser (e.g. http://www.yourdomain.com/padmaplookup.php ), in the web form enter your email address and PAD URLs to check (one URL per row), click "Submit" button and close browser window after 5-10 sec. (this will NOT stop the process).
When the task is finished, you will receive an email with all PAD URLs found.
Now you got some more PAD URLs to submit them to your PAD enabled site.