Double post:
I am proud to bring you (after a short while) the new quotes DB!
I've been working on this new script that fully incorporates to latova and uses a real actual database (MySQL).
It is far more powerful, allows me to do much more things and better management for quotes, of course.
Look at these adds I've made to help you familiarize with the new features:
You'll see below the changes I made, the features I added. I tried to compile every single change/feature but I'm pretty sure I'm missing something.
This update is huge and I'm satisfied with the results, I'm very happy and I hope you also like the changes.
I'm probably going to be doing a bit more stuff on this weekend, fix minor design issues and some lay outs over here and there. I also want to upgrade the search plug ins for vista, firefox and ie and also RSS feeds, I've checked the RSS feeds and doesn't look that hard to code and it's weird enough to motivate me to try it. If you guys want them I can force make me code them ;o
Also please note that I had helpers to re submit all of the quotes again so don't get all mad if you submitted one quote and the submitter doesn't say your name. There was no possible way to know who submitted what with the old DB.
I'd like to thank marxel, viet and DM for beta testing and stuff and I'd like to thank even more marxel, lil-inferno, Phobos and FlyingHat for helping me re submit all of the quotes again. I'd like to specificly thank even more FlyingHat for being my submitting slave this afternoon and help me submit the remaining 450+ quotes in just a few hours and helping me accept them. FlyingHat will be keeping his Manager status.
Also, people wishing to apply for QDB Managers can start applying now. I'll be posting the fill in form soon
Overall I'd like you to tell me what do you think, report issues and suggest more stuff to add. I might do something about it, who knows
Hope you guys like it.
Changes:
+ You can now customize the quote image as you wish for use as your own signature or use it in your site.
+ You can change the quote text color. r=# defines red, g=# defines green and b=# defines blue. Must be an (r,g,b) color and remember to separate them with ;
+ You can now make the image link to just one quote. If you looove one quote, you can just set id=# so the image displays only the quote of that ID.
+ You can combine both customizations for ultimate hax
+ The Quote DB now uses a MySQL database
+ Changes in the latova module for the QDB
+ Searchs now return paged results
+ "Read all" now returns paged results
+ If logged in in corboland the submit automatically gets user data for use as "submitter" and links to their profiles
+ There's now two modes of viewing quotes, the "basic" with just the quote, id and author (if any) and the advanced view accesible by clicking the quote id in the basic view. You can also randomize advanced view by just deleting the id=# from the adress bar.
+ Submit automatically gets the submitted date for use in the advanced view
+ You can now RATE quotes! Access the advanced view of a quote and rate it by selecting the desired rate and clicking "Vote". This will also provide number of votes, the average voting in case it isn't obvious in a rating script.
+ Admin CP, Quotes DB Managers can access easy tools for accepting/ignoring quotes by just accessing the CP. Super Managers also can delete quotes in the advanced view
+ The random image now displays the ID of the quote in case you want to look it up and rate it or whatever
+ You can access the advanced view of each quote via search, by clicking the ID just like in the basic view.
+ You can link to specific quotes in both, basic and advanced by just using id=#. You can also link to searchs by adding sq=$ (after do=result) you can also link to an specific page.
Issues known so far:
+ Minor paging issues, if the results are exactly 9 or a multiple of 10 it will create an extra page that displays nothing really. (Don't know how to fix
)
+ Some laying out issues, Vote! and some Admin links seem to not be buttons (they aren't but I still don't wanna confuse people)
Want to do:
+ Commenting, for knowing a bit more on the quote background and context
+ Favouriting quotes (For corboland logged in users)
+ "Mark for edit" button. Supposed to mark a quote for edit due to missformatting such as a reversed quote, weird times, flipped quotes and so on.
+ Bring back the Plug ins, Firefox, IE and Vista searchs
+ Code RSS feeds, I've checked and doesn't look that hard.
+ Probably code a statistics page? Really superfluous, though.
Fill In Form
Name: (aka or real name)
Location: (Just the country)
Quotes you've submitted: (or at least before the resubmittance) and provide me a direct link to at least 5 quotes [like url=urlhere]#ID[/url]
Quotes you are in: At least five and the save format as submitted quotes
Reason why you want to be a qdb man: yeap, convince me.
Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jun 6 2009, 5:53 am by Corbo.
fuck you all