The EAS Archives Link Generator

The EAS Archives Link Generator was a website administration tool designed to generate links the can be used by an old version of the media player script hosted on The EAS Archives. The program was an internal app, so it had no public release although one is being considered. The product was discontinued following significant changes to the media player script, which now sends metadata using an ID system instead of numerous query strings.

History
The EAS Archives Link Generator was created to greatly ease the creation of links that the media player script could use. Since all information at that time was passed to the script as a PHP query string, the data it should use needs to be percent-encoded and added to the raw URL. This can be a very mundane task if done manually, so this program allows the encoding and generation to happen automatically. It was created while the alert recordings were being indexed on The EAS Archives. The product was discontinued after the site's query string system was abandoned in favor of a cleaner, more efficient Unique ID-based system.