Posts

• Main Pages:
  • consolidated and cleaned up code; less redundant code is good
    • added HTTP referer display code
      • resized big photos for consistency and space saving
        • renamed templates from *.ihtml to *.html
          • fixed a bug in “content_individual.html” blog template

• Database:
  • added “visible” column for link table
  • Admin Pages:
    • added “visible” check box to editlink and addlink pages
    • Main Pages:
      • made non-visible links not show up in link displays

• Database:
  • added table for counting clikthrus out of site
    • added table for counting HTTP_REFERRERs into the site
    • Libraries:
      • renamed hit_tracking.php to stats_tracking.php
        • add clikThruCount() method
          • added redirect script for counting clikthrus
            • modified Counter() method to track HTTP_REFERRERs
            • Main Pages:
              • added search capability
                • renamed “home” topic to “blather”…. since it’s kindof the catch all blog topic

• 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

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 It was horribly outdated for its time even.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. That’s probably why I didn’t spend a lot of time writing admin pages at the time; the parsing of all that text got ugly fast.