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Community_News/Thanking_hosts_at_end_of_year.md

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+# Thanking hosts at the end of the year
+
+## Introduction
+
+Every year, in the last Community News recording (for December) it has been the
+norm to list all of the hosts who have contributed. A list of host names is
+assembled for this purpose, included in the notes and read out by the
+volunteers.
+
+## Method
+
+A Bash script exists, called `thanks_to_hosts`, which manages the generation of
+the list of hosts. The end product is a piece of HTML for insertion into the
+notes.
+
+The script is invoked simply by typing:
+```
+thanks_to_hosts
+```
+By default, the script uses the current year when generating the list of hosts.
+If, as may happen, the list is being generated in the next year, then a 4-digit
+year can be given in as an argument.
+
+### Items required to run
+
+The `thanks_to_hosts` script requires a number of tools and files to run:
+
+- `query2tt2` - this is a Perl script which performs a database query and hands
+  the results to Template Toolkit template.
+
+- `hpr.db` - a SQLite database which contains a copy of the live HPR database.
+  This needs to have been refreshed in the recent past.
+
+- `.hpr_sqlite.cfg` - the configuration file for `query2tt2` to indicate what
+  type of database is being used and where to find it.
+
+- `hosts_in_year.sqlite.sql` - a file containing the query used (using SQLite
+  syntax)
+
+- `hosts_list.tpl` - the template which will be used to generate HTML
+
+### Output file
+
+Running the script `thanks_to_hosts`, if successful, will result in the
+generation of a file called `hosts_in_year_${YEAR}.html`, where `${YEAR}` is
+replaced by the default or explicit year. The script will report the name of
+this file for convenience.
+
+<!--
+vim: syntax=markdown:ts=8:sw=4:ai:et:tw=78:fo=tcqn:fdm=marker:com+=fb\:-
+-->

Community_News/hosts_in_year.sqlite.sql

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+--
+-- hosts_in_year.sqlite.sql 2025-10-06
+--
+-- Query for use with 'query2tt2' to generate a list of hosts who contributed
+-- shows in a particular year. Designed to be used with the 'hosts_list.tpl'
+-- template.
+-- The two '?' placeholders in the query are to be filled with 'YYYY-01-01'
+-- for the start of the year and 'YYYY-12-31'. The values can be passed using
+-- the '-dbargs' option to 'query2tt2'.
+--
+SELECT DISTINCT
+    printf('%04d',h.hostid) AS hostid, h.host AS hostname
+FROM eps e
+JOIN hosts h ON e.hostid = h.hostid
+WHERE e.date BETWEEN ? AND ?
+AND title != 'Reserved'
+ORDER BY lower(h.host)

Community_News/hosts_list.tpl

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+[%# ==========================================================================
+This is the TT2 file for making a list of hosts contributing to HPR in the
+current year which is run in conjunction with 'query2tt2'. It's invoked
+by using the Bash script 'thanks_to_hosts'.
+
+[We can't use the planned pure TT2 version since Template::Plugin::DBI
+can't run over the SSH tunnel.]
+
+The 'query2tt2' script needs a configuration file '.hpr_sqlite.cfg,' though this
+is the default.
+
+The file 'hosts_in_year.sqlite.sql' is used to generate the 'result' hash
+which is used by this template. The query needs to be given the first and last
+dates of the year.
+
+This template uses the variable 'year' which can be provided to 'query2tt2'
+using the option '-def year="$year"' or similar. If not provided the default
+value is the current year.
+
+The 'result' hash is sorted by host name. The loop which writes the output
+generates links to the HPR website, with 8 per list element
+
+Changes:
+-------
+2023-10-30: The correspondent URL has changed with the static site, and needs
+the hostid to be zero-padded.
+2025-01-01: We now use a copy of the live database, built from the HPR server
+and available as https://www.hackerpublicradio.org/hpr.sql. This is
+a MySQL/MariaDB dump which can be used to create a MariaDB or a SQLite copy.
+See the script collect_HPR_database for how the SQLite version is created.
+========================================================================== -%]
+[%- USE date -%]
+[%- DEFAULT
+    year = date.format(date.now,'%Y','UTC')
+-%]
+<h3>Thanks to all [% result.size %] HPR contributors in [% year %]!</h3>
+
+[% limit = 8 -%]
+[% count = 0 -%]
+<p><ul><li>
+[% FOREACH h = result -%]
+<a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents/[% h.hostid %].html">[% h.hostname %]</a>
+[%- IF loop.count mod limit == 0 || loop.count == result.size -%].[% ELSE %],[% END %]
+[% count = count + 1 -%]
+[% IF count == limit -%]
+[% count = 0 -%]
+</li><li>
+[% END -%]
+[% END -%]
+</li></ul></p>
+[%#
+  # vim: syntax=tt2:ts=8:sw=4:ai:et:tw=78:fo=tcrqn21:fdm=marker
+-%]

Community_News/make_shownotes

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 #
 # Default help is just the USAGE section
 #
-pod2usage( -msg => "$PROG version $VERSION\n", -verbose => 0, -exitval => 1 )
+pod2usage(
-    if ( $options{'help'} );
+    -msg => "$PROG version $VERSION\n",
+    -verbose => 0,
+    -exitval => 1
+) if ( $options{'help'} );
 
 #
 # Full documentation if requested with -documentation or -man

Community_News/thanks_to_hosts

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+#!/bin/bash -
+#===============================================================================
+#
+#         FILE: thanks_to_hosts
+#
+#        USAGE: ./thanks_to_hosts [year]
+#
+#  DESCRIPTION: Generates HTML to be added to the Community News at the end of
+#               the year in order to thank hosts contributing shows in that
+#               year.
+#
+#      OPTIONS: ---
+# REQUIREMENTS: ---
+#         BUGS: ---
+#        NOTES: ---
+#       AUTHOR: Dave Morriss (djm), Dave.Morriss@gmail.com
+#      VERSION: 0.0.1
+#      CREATED: 2025-10-06 16:38:42
+#     REVISION: 2025-10-06 18:06:12
+#
+#===============================================================================
+
+set -o nounset                              # Treat unset variables as an error
+
+#
+# Process the year, either as an argument or as a default (the current year)
+#
+YEAR="${1:-}"
+if [[ -z $YEAR ]]; then
+    YEAR="$(date +%Y)"
+else
+    if ! [[ $YEAR =~ ^[0-9]{4}$ ]]; then
+        echo "Invalid year: '$YEAR'"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+fi
+
+#
+# Various constants
+#
+# Uncomment the first form and comment out the second form unless 'query2tt2'
+# is in your path. It or a link to the script will need to be in the current
+# directory.
+#
+# DBQUERY='./query2tt2'
+DBQUERY="$(command -v query2tt2)"
+
+#
+# Files expected to be in the current directory, or which will be written
+# there. These could be given full absolute paths if desired.
+#
+DB='hpr.db'
+CONFIG='.hpr_sqlite.cfg'
+QUERY='hosts_in_year.sqlite.sql'
+TEMPLATE='hosts_list.tpl'
+OUTPUT="hosts_in_year_${YEAR}.html"
+
+# [Nothing should need editing below here]
+
+#
+# Start and end of the year
+#
+YRSTART="${YEAR}-01-01"
+YREND="${YEAR}-12-31"
+
+#
+# Sanity checks
+#
+[ -e "$DBQUERY" ] || {
+    echo "Unable to find '$DBQUERY'"
+    exit 1
+}
+[ -e $DB ] || {
+    echo "Unable to find '$DB'"
+    exit 1
+}
+[ -e $CONFIG ] || {
+    echo "Unable to find '$CONFIG'"
+    exit 1
+}
+[ -e $QUERY ] || {
+    echo "Unable to find '$QUERY'"
+    exit 1
+}
+[ -e $TEMPLATE ] || {
+    echo "Unable to find '$TEMPLATE'"
+    exit 1
+}
+
+#
+# Query the SQLite database
+#
+$DBQUERY \
+    -config=$CONFIG \
+    -query=$QUERY \
+    -template=$TEMPLATE \
+    -dbarg "$YRSTART" \
+    -dbarg "$YREND" \
+    -def "year=${YEAR}" \
+    -out="$OUTPUT"
+RES=$?
+
+#
+# Deal with failures
+#
+if [[ $RES -eq 0 ]]; then
+    echo "HTML written to $OUTPUT"
+else
+    echo "Problem generating HTML"
+fi
+exit $RES
+
+# vim: syntax=sh:ts=8:sw=4:ai:et:tw=78:fo=tcrqn21
+