Buffistas Building a Better Board
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
To-do list
When closed is checked (and it's automatically checked when the postnum passes 10,000), that's when the word [closed] appears by the thread name (you'll notice it's no longer IN the thread name), and posting is severely discouraged. Well, the posting box disappears.
When archived is checked, the thread won't display on the main page at all. My thought it then, when it's been zipped and sucked to mark the thread archived and delete all the posts (but not the thread title). All auto urls to it would then be redirected by showthread to the zip listing page, to the appropriate target. That part's not coded yet.
That sounds good. Do we have any way to store the database version of the archived threads offsite somewhere? Would there be any irreparable disadvantages if we didn't?
Problem with that is that you need to take the user information with you. Which gets all tangled and complex.
As for not saving the records -- I think that should be fine.
As a first stab, we could just move them to another table -- that should help.
Ick. That's true. Better this way. And moving them to a new table first will serve as proof of concept. Nothing goes wonky, it's good. Plus, hopefully immediate benefit, anyway.
What needs to be done with search? Anything that can be parceled out? Not that I actually know, like, the code. But I could learn. Though not this week. Not actually helpful, I am.
My suggestions for speccing it out here: ita "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Mar 2, 2003 4:08:27 pm EST were not commented on, so really, that's the task at hand which doesn't break down usefully.
Maybe Sunday, but I doubt it.
Yeah, okay. Oh well. I wasn't nagging, really, I promise, see above rant. Anyway, the specs look good. In addition to sorting by date, etc., will it also be possible to limit to ranges?
What do you mean by "limit to ranges"?
Huh. I'm getting the icon now. I wasn't getting it the other day and I don't know when it decided to appear, but there it is! Mozilla 1.2.1.
I added to the header which might make it show up in more places. Not in mine, Opera nor IE5.
Yup, it started working for me this morning, too. Cool beans.
DX, when you come through -- have you sucked and zipped?
Not yet, but I'm back home now, so I'll work on it this weekend.
Sorry, I finally did go to sleep. I meant, in addition to sorting by date, etc., would we be able to search just for posts between 3/1/3 and 3/12/3 or the like?
Good point. I'll have to mull the complexity of the implementation.
