Few days back, I uploaded a web based (PHP / MySQL) quotations database manager, Aqwaal. It was originally inspired by Quotations Page, I wanted to have a self-hosted version of similar software to keep track of my growing list of quotations, I found some software like Chirpy, but they were more suited to manage quotes from IRC. As these were my early days of programming, so, I decided to write my own, with the thought that it will also hone my skills, but soon got busy with other things and forgot about it. That is, until now.

Currently, it’s a very basic version, and is only released as a proof of concept (which means you are not supposed to use it for anything other than development or just to check it out). For now, at admin level, it only supports:

• Add quote (including author name, tags and source of the quote – all optional)
• Delete any quote
• Change Admin user password

At end user-level:

• Browse all quotes
• Browse quotes using tags
• Browse quotes using author name
• Browse quotes using source
• Very basic paging support

Interface is not very pretty right now, but it is easily usable. If you are a programmer and want to look at the source, let me warn you, as the code was written quite some time ago it too isn’t very pretty either. There are lot of things to be done, but I would prefer to make it stable with only basic features first and then go for all the fancy stuff.

My current aim is to add:

• All basic functionality (edit quote, edit / delete author name, tags, sources etc.)
• Search
• Basic theme support (CSS at least)
• User management (thinking about it, not sure yet)
• And of course, remove all bugs

After that, it depends on whether anyone (other than me) is actually interested in it or not

Aqwaal Project Page: http://code.google.com/p/aqwaal
Discussion Group : http://groups.google.com/group/aqwaal