Building a Web Database

[RuminDange]

I've been using various methods for online organization of my game, and pondering the ideal solution for a while now.

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If anyone has something out there that seems similar - by all means let me know. I certainly haven't seen anything quite like this yet though.

Do we think alike or what?
I've had the same kind of goals and thoughts for a management system like this for some time. I haven't seen anything close to what I want and pondering creating it if I could ever get the time, one hell of an undertaking for sure , but I was probably looking at C#.Net either windows or web based or both to develop in. Either way a lot of work and time to do this sort of thing, which time is one thing I am always short on between working, grad school and the required gaming. But some day.

You can ditto what Mercule said for me, "when you get that thing even to alpha, I'll happily give it a whirl".

RD

 

[spacemonkey]

Time is always the problem, isn't it? I don't have a ton right now either with work, school, game, and my other projects.

No matter what I do though, I haven't been able to bring myself to let this idea die, so I'l probably take another whack at it eventually. I'll probably do the overall framework first, then each individual module separately, while only putting in the data I need to test it (read: SRD).

I think I tried to put in too much data on my spell module, and got bogged down in the database rather than focusing on the coding and functionality. That and 3.5. And the fact that I wanted to do a re-design of the database that required further splitting of every entry.

I'll keep you guys in mind for Alpha testing should I need it (I hope I do sometime).

 

[reanjr]

Interesting. I'd have expected it to be a lot more like ASP classic, and my limited experience with that has been less than thrilling.

It is. But as far as the base web developer is concerned, ASP.NET isn't too different from ASP anyway. ASP code pretty much always works in ASP.NET, if not vice versa. The major difference is that everything is inline (no such thing as code behind). If you were designing a new app, then you'd run into some problems, but modifying an existing one should be pretty straight forward, as you'll immediately see the differences. You are dealing with different classes, but that's not a difficult issue to deal with.

I actually use VB. Although I've putzed with C#, the syntax is still a bit odd for me. My problem is that, while I've done Windows development for quite some time, I just moved to web dev about a year ago. I pretty much rely on VB code-behind modules for ASP.NET and try to minimize actually working with the HTML side of things. I did some HTML stuff over a decade ago (when Mosaic was the new thing), but I'm largely unfamiliar with what's available, now.

In that case, you might have some difficulty, though you might still want to go online and check out a few sample PHP scripts to see.

I've been lucky in that my host has point-and-click install for a slew of things (Mambo, PHP-Nuke, Post-Nuke, Xoops, PHPBB, etc.) and the mods I've installed myself have been very by-the numbers.

Maybe between the wine DB and the PHP.net site, I can put something together that'll work, though.

PHP is a good language to know (Perl, PHP, and ASP are pretty much it), so there's never any harm in trying out.