Pricelessware mid-year vote(OT)

[DC]

[snip]
130 Here, DC -- let me help you && GO TO 15

Thanks. I think.

 

[Wald]

Wald wrote:

Yes, the *how* to do it became irrelevant once it was clear that
people wanted the vote in the newsgroup rather than on the web
site.

OK, that's democracy

re: your questions about the site. The pages are manually
updated. Most of the pages are HTML - there is a little PHP (the
Alphabetical list page and the PL2004 Nominations page) - the
PHP script is courtesy of Lars. *Learning* PHP is on my
(endlessly long) to-do list.

Well, I was kind of in the same situation. We have sort of a portal
site here at work, which categorizes links that might be of
interest to us, each with a short description.

In my first setup, I was using an XML database and transformed it
to HTML with XSLT. So, in essence, each time someone emailed me a
new link, I had to manually update the XML file, generate the HTML
and upload it to the site.

Recently, I rewrote the whole thing in PHP and my life has never
been easier, at least concerning that website . It's all
automatic now, users post links with descriptions themselves, these
are inserted into the database. The links do _not_ appear on the
website until they are approved by an "administrator" of some sort
(password-protected). For now, I've got categories two levels deep
(category - subcategory - links). There are interfaces to create
new categories or delete old ones, to manage and/or reassign
orphaned links, etcetera...

Well, I would just like to suggest: learn PHP asap, the website
administration will be a _lot_ more efficient.

If you want, I could send you my code one of these days. It's not
the world's most pure programming, and I could probably improve it
a lot (reading up on PHP security etcetera), but I think you would
definitely find a use for it.

Regards,
Wald

 

[Susan Bugher]

Well, I was kind of in the same situation. We have sort of a portal
site here at work, which categorizes links that might be of
interest to us, each with a short description.

In my first setup, I was using an XML database and transformed it
to HTML with XSLT. So, in essence, each time someone emailed me a
new link, I had to manually update the XML file, generate the HTML
and upload it to the site.

Recently, I rewrote the whole thing in PHP and my life has never
been easier, at least concerning that website . It's all
automatic now, users post links with descriptions themselves, these
are inserted into the database. The links do _not_ appear on the
website until they are approved by an "administrator" of some sort
(password-protected). For now, I've got categories two levels deep
(category - subcategory - links). There are interfaces to create
new categories or delete old ones, to manage and/or reassign
orphaned links, etcetera...

Well, I would just like to suggest: learn PHP asap, the website
administration will be a _lot_ more efficient.

If you want, I could send you my code one of these days. It's not
the world's most pure programming, and I could probably improve it
a lot (reading up on PHP security etcetera), but I think you would
definitely find a use for it.

Hi Wald,

Thanks for the informative post. IMO using PHP has greatly improved the
Nominations page. The examples of how you use it on your web site are
food for thought.

Apologies for the late response - updating the PL2004 nominations is
keeping me busy.

Susan
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PL2003: http://www.pricelessware.org/2003/about2003PL.htm
PL2004 Review: http://www.pricelessware.org/2004/2004nominationsPL.php
alt.comp.freeware FAQ (short) - maintained by John F.
http://clients.net2000.com.au/~johnf/faq.html

 

[BillR]

Thanks for the informative post. IMO using PHP has greatly improved the
Nominations page. The examples of how you use it on your web site are
food for thought.

Apologies for the late response - updating the PL2004 nominations is
keeping me busy.

I imagine that reviewing and updating would. Many thanks.

I also imagine that you are already thinking of how to make this
process less difficult. Even if voting cannot be done on the web,
nomination and text submission could be. Once implemented, this would
reduct the effort (especially yours). A form might also encourage
people to submit more complete and compatible information -- or not.

BillR