Need help on DSM-ONE

Alright since Nova seems to be gone, we need someone else to help out on coding for DSM-ONE. We are trying to get the site up asap so DSMers can have a place to go (eventually) for all DSM info. If anyone is good at this sort of thing and wants to help I would really appreciate it!
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I can't help but I looked at the main DSM-ONE page and the layout looks good.

I'm a programmer. What do you need done?

I know PHP, MySQL, C++, HTML, XML, CSS...... I got what you need.

I'm a programmer. What do you need done?

I know PHP, MySQL, C++, HTML, XML, CSS...... I got what you need.
Well, we need it coded for logging in and out so that members can submit articles and such. There will be a few mods there also to make sure people aren't posting just crap... I'm not sure if we are having a forums section or not with it. But it will pretty much be open to the public to read, but only modified/updated by members and mods.

I can send you the code that I have left/started. I got caught up with the whole graduation/moving into a new job thing. I have a bunch of stuff done. I can also get you guys logins to the domains. I apologize for my lack of time.

I should mention I have a working verison in ruby done. My host originally said "we are implementing ruby" So I developed it in that fully.... a month later they were no longer planning to support ruby.

The working code I have now is in php. Lets get a chat later tomorrow night. I may have jury duty in the day but should be on around 8pm on aim. AIM: Majesticmantra if I can't help I can at least get you guys what you need and proper rights and permissions.

Well, we need it coded for logging in and out so that members can submit articles and such. There will be a few mods there also to make sure people aren't posting just crap... I'm not sure if we are having a forums section or not with it. But it will pretty much be open to the public to read, but only modified/updated by members and mods.

That can easily be done using PHP and MySQL. Does the server support both? I'd be more than happy to help with this. Can use it as part of my portfolio for school :sunglasse . If you want me to do this I'd be more than happy to do it. Mod privelages are fine to do also.

Yeah, if you wanna use it in your portfolio thats fine with me. I also planned on using it in mine for the site design aspect of it... I am thinking an AIM chat is a good idea. I can be on tomorrow night too since its my night off from work. Lets set a time so we are all on at about the same time here...

yes I have perl, mySQL, php. The current code I have is php/mySQL I think there are a few tables setup too already. I'll try to pull together my design docs tonight for you. I have most of it spec'ed out and documented from our past talks. It just needs to be implemented.

Again I have it done with ruby but I don't have a server with that other then my home server and didn't have time to change hosts yet (I'm working on that).

Tommorow night chat ain't good for me. Someone just save a log of the chat and send it to me or whatever.

Whats this website deal now? Tech articals. Shit, when I post up my DSM forum I damn near got banned..

Whats this website deal now? Tech articals. Shit, when I post up my DSM forum I damn near got banned..

I never understood what the deal was with why Josh had a problem with that, but w/e. He dosn't bother to check here anymore so feel free to post it up again man. I don't think the current mods will give two squirts of piss.

I never understood what the deal was with why Josh had a problem with that, but w/e. He dosn't bother to check here anymore so feel free to post it up again man. I don't think the current mods will give two squirts of piss.

I agree. I don't know what the hell his problem was with that, I think he though you were maybe advertising for it, but fuck, post it up man, there's nothing wrong with more DSM sites out there.

No need to appologize Nova. I left for a while to because of school too. :)

Well I can be on later tommorow night. You guys are about 3 hours ahead of me so 8 pm would be 5 here. I think I can do that time if it works out for everyone else.

As for a forum on dsm-one, I personally think there are enough great dsm forums out there already. This site was supposed to be more of a condensed version of forums that just gives you the quick facts/conclusions/how to's/etc without all the other unneeded stuff in forums. But it's up to you guys.

Yeah scottsee, you can post up that stuff if you want to. I have no problems with it...

As for dsm-one, I didn't think we were going to have any types of forums on it? I thought we had originally planned to make it more of a tech article/write up site that could only be submitted by members and the submissions would be moderated by the mods of course.

A forum would clutter it. Keep it to just pose as an information database.

Just wanted to give everyone some more info on the site/let people give their 2 cents. We decided that the site wouldn't be open to everyone to unrestrictedly modify (like wikipedia). This may just be only at first until we can get the site up and running good. Eventually though, I really think it needs some kind of system for members to modify it easily and quickly without submitting it to mods.

For instance when I said it would be complete, that was because I thought everyone that visited and looked at, say, BOVs, could look through all the ones listed on dsm-one and say "hey, they dont have the SSQV. Well I'll just put it on there then. And hey I've got some really good pics of it too that I can put on. And I know this vfaq on it." It just seems really time consuming and tedious for mods to review EVERY change if this site gets big. It was just supposed to be like bittorrent and feed off itself if you know what I mean. If you guys can think of any creative system to solve this problem it would be a big help.

That could open it up to a lot of misinformation and disaster though. It only takes one person to take the site down in just a few clicks. I wouldn't let just anybody edit the information. Maybe not just mods, but you would need some type of ranking system for the members. Like the first 10 or 20 suggestions go through mods, and if they show they know what they are talking about then give them unrestricted access to edit or something like that. I just think your asking for trouble if you open it up to everyone right away.

I acquired a host with Ruby. I'll start moving stuff over to it tonight. It's going to take me a bit. I have 4-5 domains to migrate and close out the old account.

But we are getting there.

You guys need anything for Dsmlink?

You guys need anything for Dsmlink?
Once its up and running we will be accepting all information/articles that will be helpful. :)

I acquired a host with Ruby. I'll start moving stuff over to it tonight. It's going to take me a bit. I have 4-5 domains to migrate and close out the old account.

But we are getting there.
Awesome... Now I'm really excited about it. :)

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up. The host just installed rails to my account. I have to go and change the oil in the eclipse and put mudflaps on the rav and then I'll be online later tonight ~8ish to get hopefully get the site going. If anyone is around and knows ruby that wants to help tweak stuff let me know.

I'm shooting for Wednesday deployable functionality on everything.

I want to try to get David's site for dsm3d on our server if he will let us host it for him. I think it would be a super valuable tool.


For now the policy is going to be to link to information we find helpful, then add comments to that link. We are going to contact the owners of the information and ask if they mind if we host it on our site with a credited link back to them with our changes incorporated. I think thats safest. I plan to locally mirror all sites we link to my computer and if they go down I'll post the material once it disappears from the original site. I wrote a tool to do this and bundle them nicely so we can deploy them to our new site quickly. It's all automated so when we put a link in it should scrap the site.

Again everything I have is untested so once it's up we really need to hammer the whole system this coming week to populate it and find bugs/exploits (I'm sure there will be a few)

If you hate how it works once it goes live let me know. I'm open to fix/change anything!

Once you guys get the site template done email it to me [email protected] and I'll get it on the site.

Once you guys get the site template done email it to me [email protected] and I'll get it on the site.
I'm just about finished with a new template for it here...

Also, David is just gonna be linking parts of dsm3d to go to certain sections of dsm-one that is related to certain things... You'll see once he gets his closer to being finished...

Also, David is just gonna be linking parts of dsm3d to go to certain sections of dsm-one that is related to certain things... You'll see once he gets his closer to being finished...

Yes. Yes I am. Blackcrow has seen the "work in progress" and knows how the feel is going to be like. Basically, parts will get linked up with DSMOne. Still not sure exactly on everything yet, but it's all in my head... somewhere.

I would like DSM3D to have its own domain again. I would like to still keep the two seperate entities. However, with both projects working together, we can get something really nice up and running.

david if you need hosting pm me. I just upgraded my hosting stuff to a rediculously large and fast server.

Anyhow this is how far I got in testing. Some stuff didn't work well so I had to back it out. I'm working on fixes.

Blackcrow in the template can you make all images linked from specifically http://www.dsm-one.org/images/ then I don't have to change it later...

For now don't go adding to the database cause It's going to all get nuked tomorrow when I'm working on it again at night. I should be around tomorrow after 9:30pm est

Anyhow proof that I am doing work on it..

http://www.novaslp.net/dsmone/faq - A Faq's page that will list all by category eventually.

http://www.novaslp.net/dsmone/faq/new - Creating a new FAQ this needs drop downs for some of the options otherwise it's ready to go...

http://www.novaslp.net/dsmone/faq/show/1 - Showing a specific FAQ

http://www.novaslp.net/dsmone/faq/edit/1 - Editing that FAQ

http://www.novaslp.net/dsmone/faq/list - Listing stuff

I like it, but I already see a problem with my original template and your coding clashing... I am working on some changes for this in my new template.

That header needs to get fixed badly. It shows the header, than a part of it doubled up. Need to use CSS to correct that, or just set the top table height to the specific height of the image.

That header needs to get fixed badly. It shows the header, than a part of it doubled up. Need to use CSS to correct that, or just set the top table height to the specific height of the image.
I did set it to a fixed height but it refuses to use the same height... On here I corrected the problem though. It was an issue with my search bar coding. It will be ok now in the new template.

on windows Firefox it looks fine. It didn't on linux firefox though. The header repeated. I think I'm using the same versions of FF but I'll check again tonight when I'm home.

As I said template can be changed easy. I only had to change the images to the long names and add one line of code to it to apply it for all the pages on the site.

Nice work guys! I like your format nova. That's a cool idea to link the articles with david's thing. Looking really good! I wish I could do something but I dont know any computer crap. :(