Site Changelog

Tuesday Modifications

Database: wrote a script to strip the slashes out of my database. slashes were icky. cleaned all code of unneccesary slash stripping. Admin Tools: made main admin page reflect topics for news entries news edit and adding uses topics for ease of navigation Main Pages: added “next/prev” navigation for individual viewing of entries. changed layout of “next/prev” on multi-view(default view) display time zone

Original System Notes

I originally wrote this website software to run on a crappy HP-UX box that only had PHP ver. 3.0.8 or something. It was horribly outdated for its time even. That was September 25, 2001. Nearly 2 years ago. Anyway… I started first by trying to implement the database with DBM. DBM sucks. I didn’t try that for long at all. After that I decided to just use flat text files with custom delimiters and a small API for accessing and updating the data in those files.

updates to the custom PHP codebase

This week I’ve made several major and minor changes to the website code. I’ll start keeping track of what I do here. It’s high time I know what I do when with this site. 🙂 Database: Added hit counter tables Added an order column for topics Added link table changed date fields in links and quotes to datetime fields Libraries: Added Date_Calc class library for better handling of dates and formatting of dates.