Mal ,'Shindig'
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I guess it wasn't feasible to make separate db's for Angel and Buffy quotes, plus the code would have to be different for the B/A thread pages.
There's no need to make separate db's, since there's a column that tells which show the quote is from.
Why did you want them to be separate, again?
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Why did you want them to be separate, again?
'Cause there are people who watch Buffy but not Angel, and the Angel quotes just confuse and spoil them (in case they ever did want to watch in the future). I dunno, maybe it's stupid.
How does the quotes thing work anyway? Does it generate a random number and look up for that quote in the "quotes" table? In that case, I'm very surprised that it returns "1" so frequently.
Signed, codes PHP for a living, hasn't done a damn thing in the whole day.
The quotes are from previous seasons. I don't think there's anything later than Season Five and Season Two.
'Cause there are people who watch Buffy but not Angel, and the Angel quotes just confuse and spoil them (in case they ever did want to watch in the future). I dunno, maybe it's stupid.
The quotes aren't spoilery, though -- they stop at S3 Angel and S6 Buffy, if that. For the UnAmericans among us.
Paul, it's randomised by MYSQL -- ORDER RANDOM LIMIT 1. I campaigned against moving the randomising into PHP, because I thought it would be too much of a performance hit for just a frill.
The quotes aren't spoilery, though -- they stop at S3 Angel and S6 Buffy, if that. For the UnAmericans among us.
Yeah, but if people have never seen Angel at all, they are. Perhaps we don't care, I just know that I have a couple of friends that I would love to introduce to the Buffistas, but they'll be spoiled for Angel by the quotes.
The official line in the sand is that anything the Australians have seen is valid everywhere. So even if the quotes were somehow constrained, S1 Angel detailed plot summaries could pop up in Literary, Buffy, F2F planning, everywhere.
Yeah, that's true. I forgot about that.
OK, never mind!
Yeah, but if people have never seen Angel at all, they are. Perhaps we don't care
I think we can't care about people who haven't watched a show that's been on for four or seven seasons. We'd end up in white font forever.
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sorry arby - I didn't see your last post before I submitted mine. Consider the dead horse unbeaten by me.