Do Guide/Reviews Page updaters - important!

[Blacksway]

OK, I've sorted the publishers list, and put up a crappy little page for moderators to look at (bottom of the left menu once you're logged in)

Enjoy.

 

[Krug]

Bug report:
Short description and description appear to be swapped in the data entry area.

When I try to add errata or a review from the product page, doesn't seem to work.

 

[Blacksway]

If I told you the field name for the short description was called "Description" and the one for the longer description was called "Short" would that help muddy the water any?

Nope, thought not, didn't help me much either

Anyway, I think I've fixed that so they should be right now.

Oh, and errata and other reviews stuff should work too...

 

[Krug]

Uh no but I know it's a complex mofo. Thanks for the work dude. Everyone appreciates it. May all your dice roll turn up 20s.

 

[Krug]

Minor bug: Entering a specic date (eg. month) for release doesn't seem to work. Always defaults to non-specific.

Doing the mongoose stuff now.. *grits teeth*

 

[Liquide]

If I told you the field name for the short description was called "Description" and the one for the longer description was called "Short" would that help muddy the water any?

Nope, thought not, didn't help me much either

Anyway, I think I've fixed that so they should be right now.

Oh, and errata and other reviews stuff should work too...

Long story to that one really
Well in the beginning I did the database to support many fields but when I did the code the first time I made the input/output to update/show the wrong fields.

When I finally discovered my mistake so much had been put into the database it was inconvinient to start meddle around with it so I let it stay (it worked so dun change something that worked).

And in the beginning the only person who saw those fields was me so no-one had to know, then when I started to meddle with the new admin I just made it so the short field was titled description and the opposite.

Sorry if it caused you tonned of headache mate.

 

[Blacksway]

No biggie

Its what makes life as a programmer interesting

 

[Liquide]

A little suggestion if possible please change the dates back to ISO dates (YYYY-MM-DD) since everyone more or less understands them.

The DD/MM/YY is a format not used/understood everywhere and can cause some, if not a lot, confusion for some of us


If I remember correctly it is done like this in PHP

// This assumes that the date in question is not already an ISO date.
function iso_date(strInput){

strTemp = strInput;
strTemp = date ("Y/-n/-d", strTemp);
return strTemp;

}

This is just a suggestion but it would simplify for some of us.

 

[Blacksway]

I had deliberately avoided using all numeric date format and had been using 01/Jan/02 - you are saying even this is too ambigous?

Its no biggy to change it, just checking thats what your saying.

 

[Liquide]

I had deliberately avoided using all numeric date format and had been using 01/Jan/02 - you are saying even this is too ambigous?

Its no biggy to change it, just checking thats what your saying.

Just a note, the above means the 2nd of January 2001 to me, if that was your intention ignore this .

If it doesn't mean that then we have a small problem