If this interests you, check out my newer app, RepoParser!
RepoMaker is the biggest app I have made to date. It was also one of the first I started and I learned the most from it. At first it was designed to basically get you on your feet concerning making Installer.app Repositories for the iPhone but it then started to grow into a fully featured repository editor. Currently it has some documentation for starting a repository and a GUI for adding packages and starting the mainframe. The only downside to this is that you need to paste the code into your XML file manually. I am in the middle of a IO Filestream project that would allow it to parse and modify a repository.XML file through a GUI but I ran into some minor problems and lost interest.
As of now it can read a repository.XML file and gather a drop-down list of the packages. When a package is selected the properties of that package are displayed in modifiable text boxes. However, the actual installation script has TONS of problems when it is modified and even the simple properties have some problems when they are modified. If people were interested in me finishing this application I would certainly pursue it but otherwise what you see is what you get.
Also, the MD5 Checksum script in RepoMaker has a little problem… It doesn’t work. I used X1 to encode instead of X2 and it ends up missing some numbers (0s and 1s). If you are using it you will have to generate your own MD5 Checksums as this does not generate them properly. Or you could ask me to fix it as it would not take long at all (I have working MD5 Checksum code in my other apps).
As usual, the graphics used in this application were created by Allen of planet-iphones.com.
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WOW! I just stumbled across this website trying to make an application EXACTLY like this, and found your site. I must say, I live your apps! Damn! And please, if you have time, finish off this app (the last tab doesn’t work at all, and maybe you could also implement that we can edit the xml straight from the server)… And if you need help, I can help; since I also have vb.net experience. And btw, I just released an iPhone application (AppleTap) and I just need a little bit more adsense money, and then I’ll have 100$ and I will definitely donate 1 or 2 to you! Thanks so much!
-Luiz
Also please repost the index.php and .htaccess files! Thanks ![]()