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PHP is fun.
Anakin McFly		2009-04-11 00:07:17

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After one and a half days of homework-neglect (it's the Good Friday weekend. I can afford the time) and an unhealthy time on the computer going through PHP and MySQL tutorials, WINM now has a users system that works.

Currently working:

1) Users database
2) Login form
3) Logout form
4) Registration form

and yeah that's it. Basically you can get an account and log in and then... uh, revel in your logged in state. Yeah. Nothing up on the site yet though, because I'm still testing things out and adding stuff. Tomorrow I'll figure out how to add a timestamp to register the date of each user registration, and how to add a captcha to keep out spambots.

...In a bit of unimportant trivia, tonight alone I took about 100 tries in total to get the code for all of those four things right.

Eventually (possibly over the course of this week, possibly by tomorrow, possibly next month) I'll be adding a comments script to all the articles so people can login and leave comments under their names and basically make the site a little less dead.

And write movie reviews! Once I get the movies database up.

Ultimate goal is to have everything in the site hosted on the site itself in original code, including the polls and these forums. That would probably take more time though.

So just the comments first; it's probably harder to do than it looks, but hopefully (if I don't get a sudden urge to study) working at full speed it should be up by the end of this week. Possibly.

...Then again, that's just the comments script alone. I'm planning to create user profiles that can be accessed by clicking on the names of the members who leave the comments, and that might take a bit longer to figure out.

Possibly a month, since exams are coming (though this also means a whole study-break week of no class), and I don't plan to launch the whole registration system until at least that much is up.



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