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atomaka:
I noticed the people finder link at the top of this page for the first time today. It seems like a great idea. Let everyone know where you are and what you are all about. The fact that Michigan is the most populated state (according to the finder) is great ;) I didn't realize that Oscar Controls was based just a county over.
At any rate, I also noticed that there are very few members, and it seems to be not so updated. I was just wondering if there would be any interest if a similar project were to take off. I am a seasoned web programmer and would be willing to put together a set of scripts to handle it. Users could sign up and add themselves to the proper state/county/country/etc. They would also be able to update any information (maybe some stuff on cabs). I don't know, this could go anywhere.
I'm just taking a survey of interest before I put in any time on decided what to do.
Let me know what ya'll think!
rampy:
--- Quote from: atomaka on June 06, 2003, 04:03:39 pm ---I noticed the people finder link at the top of this page for the first time today. It seems like a great idea. Let everyone know where you are and what you are all about. The fact that Michigan is the most populated state (according to the finder) is great ;) I didn't realize that Oscar Controls was based just a county over.
At any rate, I also noticed that there are very few members, and it seems to be not so updated. I was just wondering if there would be any interest if a similar project were to take off. I am a seasoned web programmer and would be willing to put together a set of scripts to handle it. Users could sign up and add themselves to the proper state/county/country/etc. They would also be able to update any information (maybe some stuff on cabs). I don't know, this could go anywhere.
I'm just taking a survey of interest before I put in any time on decided what to do.
Let me know what ya'll think!
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I actually was going to do the same thing... but never got around to it...
I wanted to have it tie in to the message board so that people could just use the existing "location" field... but, I got more than sidetracked =P
I for one, would think it was wicked cool... please go for it!
Rampy
atomaka:
If the people here at BYOAC are willing to allow me to check out how the YaBB SE database (text or mySQL) is set up, I'd be happy to tie it in with the forums. That sounds like a great idea. The location field probably isn't entirely enough (since people put in whatever they want), but using the same user database would work out well.
I used to be a part of the team over at YaBB "back in the day" but haven't touched YaBB SE. I'm not entirely sure who to contact about something like this since I'm still a semi-newbie.
rampy:
Well what I was gonna do is setup my own yapbbse the same revision as this to see the user table(s) structure and work off that... I was hoping to create some sort of "plugin" that would be able to write to that field in a format that I could later parse to search/display that data.
Then I could give the "plugin" and give it to pj, have him change the username/password for the database to match the config (or pull it in from yapbbse automagically) and we'd just need to let people to know to go to a certain special page to update their location field (and maybe ask that saint/pj lock that field as read only from the regular user profile page ... or something)
That was my thought process, but I never got passed asking which version of yapbbse they were currently using and bothering to install it on my server for research/testing.
*shrug* That was just my hack-ish approach...
Rampy
atomaka:
Yeah, the parsing is an option, but people still have the ability to go in and change their Location via the YaBB profile. I don't like trusting anything to the users as they'll normally go ahead and screw it up.
Is PJ who I should talk to about? Like I said, being a newbie, I don't know the administration or even who owns the site.
Thanks for the help Rampy!
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