[TRC-web] Re: TRC website

Ryan McElroy
Sat Jan 8 00:26:20 PST 2005


Tim,

Thanks for volunteering to take on this task.

You don't have to have cold fusion, as far as I can tell. If you need to 
test something, do it in a test directory at titanrobotics.net - 
however, we should find a host that offers PHP 5, if thats the route you 
want to go, or maybe we should stick with PHP 4/MySQL so we have more 
options... we can always port to SQLite later... (in that case, we can 
use sf2 as a host - silverfir.net)

Anyway, I would like to help with the effort to port to PHP... I think 
it should be pretty straightforward, basically all Pedro had been using 
(that I've looked at anyway) is includes, SQL statements and loops to 
print things out (which cold fusion hides from you)...

Also, we don't need to port everything over - or if we do end up porting 
everything over, we have to make some of the features a lot more usable 
(such as the accounts tracker). But here are the features that I think 
would be nice, in rough order of importance:

Most content database driven for easy updates
Users with configurable privileges (so different users can change 
different things)
Easy way to post News, with auto-archiver
Calendar (feature request: browsable, integrated with news)
Photo Gallery, bulk uploads, auto-resizer and thumbnailer, allow 
picutres in horizontal or vertical format
Integration with mailing lists (this will take some real doing, but I 
have a few ideas to try out)
Membership tracker - points system (I will probably be in charge of 
setting up this part), email memebers over web (like currently implemented)

Maybe some more?

~Ryan

Tim Montague wrote:

> If you give me access to the current website code, I will work on 
> porting it to php. Do I need to get a copy of ColdFusion? If so, does 
> the TRC have one? Otherwise I am sure I can find someone who does have 
> a copy.
>
> Are there any new features that you would like on the website?
>
> -Tim
>
>




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