Not so much a program, as a php script...

Post by **Patori** » Wed 23 Feb, 2005 2:12 pm

Would it be a good idea to put up online a PHP script that accepts code snippets, catogorizes them, and allows other people to view these same snippets? I personally think that it would be a good idea, and an easy project for me (I'm pretty good at PHP and MySQL now, so...) Ideas? Should I do this?

Post by **DarkAuron** » Wed 23 Feb, 2005 4:05 pm

How would it categorize them? Would there be categories to select from when submitting the snippet? Sounds like an interesting idea though.

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Wed 23 Feb, 2005 4:16 pm

No, that wouldn't be a good idea.

It'd be great.

Forgive me for the board abuse....
The shame

Post by **Patori** » Wed 23 Feb, 2005 9:44 pm

DarkAuron wrote:How would it categorize them? Would there be categories to select from when submitting the snippet? Sounds like an interesting idea though.

Alphabetically, by category, system (83,86,89,etc.) and by relevence to a topic, ie., sprites, etc. I'll get coding.

blueskies · Post by **blueskies** » Thu 24 Feb, 2005 2:23 am

we used to have a topic like this a few boards back. It was like, a collection of the most useful routines, or something. I think it'd be a waste to write a while new script for it when you can just make a new post for one.

Post by **DarkAuron** » Thu 24 Feb, 2005 2:53 am

I think his point is that it'd be more organized and more viewable.

Post by **kv83** » Fri 25 Feb, 2005 12:58 pm

On the other hand, you can organize a topic aswell, using hyperlinked subjects, as I did here:
http://joepnet.com/hosted/maxcoderz/php ... c.php?t=34

Post by **Patori** » Fri 25 Feb, 2005 1:57 pm

hehe.. yeah... But I just wanna code this php script... it'll be fun...

Post by **DarkAuron** » Fri 25 Feb, 2005 9:36 pm

Patori, I say go for it

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Mon 28 Feb, 2005 12:03 am

Actually this would come in handy. I have always wanted a code archive full of some really nice routines.

Post by **Patori** » Mon 28 Feb, 2005 2:16 pm

Could Maxcoderz host it? Joe?

Anyways, I've started coding it, and submiting works.... I've gotta work on setting it up so that staff can approve, and work on the sorting routines, should be easy because of MySQL's ORDER BY command...

Post by **Patori** » Thu 10 Mar, 2005 2:27 pm

Worked on this thing some more... Will do best to complete and host on my friend's server.

Post by **kv83** » Thu 10 Mar, 2005 2:32 pm

if hosting is a problem, you may contact me to let it be hosted on my server (calcwebzine.com)

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Thu 10 Mar, 2005 3:25 pm

May I advice that you don't just let anybody upload things directly? I think it would be better to have routines evaluated before they show up in the list, or people will submit the dumbest things and the archive will become more annoying than helpfull. Or a rating system, that could work as well.

Edit: http://joepnet.com/hosted/maxcoderz/php ... .php?t=373
Would this be helpful? If programmers would add the proper tags to their comments, your script could run the program through the asmdocer and store the html file to provide visitors with all the details about the software.

Post by **Patori** » Fri 11 Mar, 2005 8:01 pm

hmm... rating would be a very good idea... will implement...