Reviews Site Merger Complete

[Michael Morris]

Guys, offer your critcisms when this is done. Many of the things I'm well aware of aren't right - but I wanted to have something up instead of nothing at all. Many of the things you're complaining about are going to be fixed and I intended to fix them well before I even released this.

Now, today's projects, get the sorting features of the publisher page working, and get the all products page up.

 

[Morrus]

Yup, I agree with Michael. His priority right now is to get the reviews section working. Functionality first, prettiness second. We'll worry about how it looks later on; if the site doesn't work, then who cares how it looks?

 

[Khur]

Guys, offer your critcisms when this is done.

Criticism is more valuable during development than after completion.

We'll worry about how it looks later on; if the site doesn't work, then who cares how it looks?

My criticism wasn't about looks at all. It was about functionality on a user interface level. Secondary to whether the site works at all, yes, but not the same as whether the site is "pretty."

I'll shut up now that I know this is a rough measure.

 

[Michael Morris]

Don't shut up. I can use this thread later on. Understand though that right now I'm not working with that final "presentation" layer.

The code that displays this board is divided into three distinct layers. The lowest layer is SQL and is ran by MySQL. That layer is what stores the information. It's complete, more or less. The second, and the one I'm working on now, is the access layer, written in PHP and stored in the server file system. The final layer is in XML, stored in templates. I'm not going to worry too much about the XML for the moment.

Vbulletin is a beautiful program that is very malleable. One of the reasons for this malleability is that none of the display elements are stored in the PHP code - in stark contrast to other systems you might have worked with Khur. I don't have to rewrite the PHP code in any way to modify the appearance of the pages. When the time comes, I'll work with that portion, but for now I'm working with the PHP code itself.

General update. The Publisher page now has an alphabetical list that allows you to find publishers by the first letter of their name. It's a little buggy in that the pagenav isn't working properly with it yet - but I'm getting there.

UPDATE: Got that bug - works fully now. Moving to products.

 

[Michael Morris]

Product Listings complete. Now moving to the editor routines. Expect that to take a couple days.

EDIT: http://www.enworld.org/reviews.php?do=product

 

[Khur]

As I said in another thread, I definitely appreciate your work. Thanks for 'splaining things. Me = not a programmer, but I certainly respect those who are. No need to waste any more time on me.

 

[blizack]

Is it still not possible to post reviews, or I am I just not looking in the right place to do so?

 

[Michael Morris]

You'll see nice large icons for posting reviews as soon as I get that done. I need to test that more thoroughly than other things - it can ruin the database.

 

[blizack]

Ah, good. Thanks for all your hard work.

 

[HellHound]

Flippin' amazing work, Michael!

Once you are done the integration, can we switch a few things around?

1. Increase the size of the publishers list page so that there are only 4-5 pages of publishers instead of 15+

2. Bring the new reviews listing over from the left column to the central space.

Now, back to the praise. Awesome work. I'm astounded that you managed to switch the whole thing over like this.