Hmmm.....
By: R|A
With the amount of work my Cisco classes are taking up, I am thinking about dropping the current code that is powering the Weapons DB onto GitHub and making it open source. Although I do have some code in it that I don't wish to give out as it powers my private CMS system I created for some friends a while back.
I really just don't have a lot of time to work on any of my projects right now.
Fuck.
By: R|A
Yeah, almost all of my time has been spent on school and working with my band. I have literally no time to code, or even game really.
I will get an update on the DB done sometime, but right now my life's a mess and I can't pin down any definitive date for it.
Some Info
By: R|A
I have received a few emails regarding the weapons db as of late, in which some people think I have abandoned the project. This is not true in any sense, I have yet to update the backend system as I have recently moved and have yet to find the time to unpack my desktop system that contains all of the newer code and such for the DB. My time has been taken up with finding a job, and getting the internet turned on at my house. ( I am writing this on my blackberry ).
In short, I am working on it since I know it is lacking in a few areas.
Finals Suck
By: R|A
Alright, I've been busy as hell with finals and getting ready to drive ~2000 miles back home in a week. So I haven't had a chance to do any work on the DB for the last week. Fear not however as I will have plenty of free time to polish up the weapon editing & items when I get back. Hopefully.
Spammers
By: R|A
Although I have only seen two spammers abusing the comments on the DB, I think I'm going to implement an email verification system for adding comments in the near future (after I get the Items ironed out). So you will have to essentially verify your email after you post a comment (only once though), and once your email has been verified you are still free to post comments. I do have a blacklist implemented however, so when I do see a spammer, or a funny guy posting obviously fake weapons, I just add their IP to the blacklist.
As far as editing, I have been playing around with PHPBB3 integration on my gaming clans front-page redesign I've been also working on for a while. This authentication method PHPBB3 uses has so far been very nice and easy to work with. It would require registering for a forum account, although upkeep on a forum isn't something I would care to do, nor do I feel one is truly necessary, the ease of using it for a verifiable account versus writing my own user management system is a much easier thing to take care of. As such the forums would stay empty, and only be used to register an account for editing. Right now this is only something on my lets-think-about-it list. I'm still weighing my options.
Finals
By: R|A
I've been swamped with college finals lately and I have about 2 weeks left until I finish this semester. So while I am working on coding the filtering side, and ripping apart the item side of the db to figure out whats wrong with my nearly identical code from the weapons side, I may not be able to add them to the db as quickly as I planned. However I am still working on it as much as I can, but I can't give an exact date until I can upload the changes. There's also about a 2000 mile drive back home for me at the end of these two weeks so I'll be pretty tired even then.
Comments Added to the DB
By: R|A
Commenting is now enabled on all weapons. So feel free to talk about a specific weapon here if you want, or give the uploader thanks.
About the update...
By: R|A
Well I ran into some problems with the item side of the db, It hasn't been working right after I tried moving the static pages with php mixed in, over to my template system. It just isn't displaying items correctly.
Although when I get some time tomorrow I'll upload the changes I've made to allow commenting on weapons, so the DB will be down for some time tomorrow, but not long.
Borderlands DB Update coming soon
By: R|A
I am currently in the process of rewriting the back-end code that runs the Borderlands Weapon database. As it stands right now there are a few major things missing from it. Namely the item portion, individual weapon comments, weapon filtering, & weapon editing.
The code for weapon comments it totally done, along with the item side of the DB. The weapon filtering I haven't started on yet, but that isn't too hard to code. The weapon editing portion of the DB is the only thing I haven't quite worked out. Currently I am deciding between email only verification for editing & deleting, where you simple verify the email submitted when creating the weapon to delete or edit. Or an account type system where one simply verifies their email if they have a weapon submitted, and they can delete or edit their own weapons from a single page.
However I am currently dealing with some personal stuff right now, and coding has taken a small back seat to my priorities right now.
