Miscellaneous PPP questions

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Archmage Alex Skip to My Lou Member # 40	written Friday, April 14 2006 10:32 Profile Homepage #0 [Topic title was "Aran! Aah! The archives are broken!" -- topic hijacked by yours truly] I can't access the other pages of this thread. MMMMM I need it to finish updating my site. [ Monday, July 03, 2006 10:50: Message edited by: Drow ] -------------------- Take the Personality Test! Deep down, you wish you were a stick figure. Posts: 1629 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Friday, April 14 2006 10:36 Profile Homepage #1 That top menu never worked. To get to later pages of the thread add "&post=25", "&post=50", etc. to the end of the URL. For example: http://pied-piper.ermarian.net/archives/browse.php?action=topic&forum=1&topic=2793&post=25 -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Archmage Alex Skip to My Lou Member # 40	written Friday, April 14 2006 12:19 Profile Homepage #2 Thank you! :D -------------------- Take the Personality Test! Deep down, you wish you were a stick figure. Posts: 1629 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, April 14 2006 13:16 Profile Homepage #3 I've received this several times in emails. The functioning program is in /flute/browse.php, not /archives/browse.php. I'm still planning to fix this or change the link, but meanwhile you'll have to replace the word "archives" with "flute" in the url. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, June 27 2006 06:57 Profile Homepage #4 Sorry for gravedigging, but I didn't want to start a new topic for this. If you've tried to look at the Pied Piper archives in the last few weeks, you've seen that they were locked down completely for maintainance. It's not so much a critical error as a load of small annoying problems that caused this. The entire site is coded horrendously - I was a PHP newbie when I made it. With roleplays to finish and my exams next week, it will be some time before there is a real website back in place (including a search function). But I do have the core of the archive done: A way to browse the entire archive, by forum and topic, with easy navigation and short, clean URLs. Fancy mod_rewrite stuff made the following URLs possible: http://pied-piper.ermarian.net/ppp/archives (a list of all forums) http://pied-piper.ermarian.net/ppp/forum/1 (all topics in the general forum) http://pied-piper.ermarian.net/ppp/topic/1/2705 (topic #2705 in General). The best part: The program automatically replaces the page links to point at the archives instead of the forum, so that you can now navigate in the topic itself. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Tuesday, June 27 2006 14:37 Profile Homepage #5 quote: Originally written by Drow: The best part: The program automatically replaces the page links to point at the archives instead of the forum, so that you can now navigate in the topic itself. I had always been bothered by that for some reason. Good to know that it's been fixed. -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, June 27 2006 16:30 Profile Homepage #6 It was the hardest part, really. The program now reads in the file, finds links (with regular expressions) identifies those links pointing to topics on Spiderweb, and replaces them with another regular expression match. Originally, I wanted to do this in a one-time conversion, but now the program does it on the fly while displaying the topic - perhaps the best way to go; this way I avoid messing with the original files... -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, June 30 2006 11:26 Profile Homepage #7 I'm teaching myself how to use regular expressions. Now, I have managed to replace image paths with local ones, finally fixing all those broken images (and replacing the logo, to show you clearly that you are not on the real, but the archived forum). And I finally managed to turn the uppercase html tags into lowercase ones. :rolleyes: The best thing is that these fixes work on all files in the archive, not just those saved in a certain way. I used to have no end of trouble with PPP1, because the files were partly saved with Mozilla (Firefox didn't exist yet) or Opera and partly with IE. Now it all works. The page loads a bit slower because the file is filtered at run time, but it's not bad. :) Edit: Or most files. A pox on Opera. It's a nice browser, but it does crap when mirroring a website. Edit: Also, a front page now emulates the actual forum index, as well as the thread list. Profile links conveniently lead to the Endeavor site. :D [ Saturday, July 01, 2006 07:49: Message edited by: Drow ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Friday, June 30 2006 17:18 Profile Homepage #8 It looks great. Dikiyoba was going to post two errors here that weren't great, but then Dikiyoba got distracted and by the time that Dikiyoba came back, the errors had been corrected. That's how great it is! Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00
ReMeMbEr Agent Member # 6581	written Monday, July 3 2006 01:01 Profile Homepage #9 Why I don't see anything? EDIT: Now I see. [ Monday, July 03, 2006 05:17: Message edited by: MagmaDragoon ] -------------------- Download Geneforge 4: Rebellion You have 6 posts. Nobody cares what you think. - Thuryl Wikipedia may be your friend, but UBB is not. - Dikiyoba Posts: 1310 \| Registered: Tuesday, December 20 2005 08:00
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, July 3 2006 10:55 Profile Homepage #10 If you are suddenly seeing unexpected errors (or blank pages), that is because I am too lazy to have a separate site for development and production. I mess with the live site on occasion. Expect it to be back within a couple of minutes, once I find the error. -- Also, here's a bit of an announcement. ATTN all participants of PPP2: If you archived part of a forum that was neither General nor Blades of Exile, do you still have it? I do still have the automatically spidered archives, but they're hell to sort through... I'd check who contributed to PPP2 myself, but the PPP2 coordination topic got the chop just before PPP3 due to a manual delete. Gone forever. [ Monday, July 03, 2006 21:04: Message edited by: Drow ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, July 14 2006 03:30 Profile Homepage #11 I guess that didn't work. :P Anyway, I added a part that imitates the "Printer-Friendly Topic View" of UBB. It opens all pages of the topic, reads the posts and displays them like this board does when you open the print view. As a sample, Baltazar the Mad. Note that like the rest of PPP, it's held together by spit and improvising, so it might do weird things in some topics where it wasn't tested yet. :P Also, it has to open and parse all files at once. For some topics, that can take a long while. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
ReMeMbEr Agent Member # 6581	written Friday, July 14 2006 04:07 Profile Homepage #12 quote: Originally written by Drow: For some topics, that can take a long while. I see. With Explorer, of course. :rolleyes: -------------------- Download Geneforge 4: Rebellion You have 6 posts. Nobody cares what you think. - Thuryl Wikipedia may be your friend, but UBB is not. - Dikiyoba Posts: 1310 \| Registered: Tuesday, December 20 2005 08:00
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Friday, July 14 2006 08:43 Profile Homepage #13 Whoah... that's a whole RP? On one page!? (runs off to find MoS) -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, July 14 2006 10:18 Profile Homepage #14 Um... there are still about 10-15 posts missing on page 21 of MoS. I'm going to take care of that soon, just need to send off my beta report to Kel. Incidentally, the program that makes this print version parses the page so thoroughly that it might just as well feed into a database. The only problem, of course, is the space. I have over 1 GB free, but my host will give me only 200 MB in database space... :rolleyes: -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
The Immortal BANNED Member # 4	written Friday, July 14 2006 10:31 Profile Homepage #15 Do people actually read the archives? -------------------- * Posts: 6936 \| Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
ReMeMbEr Agent Member # 6581	written Friday, July 14 2006 10:45 Profile Homepage #16 quote: Originally written by Rufus Rothgard: *Do people actually read* the archives? Why not? Is very interesting read old topics. -------------------- Download Geneforge 4: Rebellion You have 6 posts. Nobody cares what you think. - Thuryl Wikipedia may be your friend, but UBB is not. - Dikiyoba Posts: 1310 \| Registered: Tuesday, December 20 2005 08:00**
Ephesos Law Bringer Member # 4153	written Friday, July 14 2006 10:54 Profile Homepage #17 quote: Originally written by Drow: Um... there are still about 10-15 posts missing on page 21 of MoS. I'm going to take care of that soon, just need to send off my beta report to Kel. Drat... just when I got my hopes up. I'll convert that thing into pure IC soon enough... -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 \| Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00
Zeviz Nuke and Pave Member # 24	written Friday, July 14 2006 11:48 Profile Homepage #18 quote: Originally written by Drow: ... Incidentally, the program that makes this print version parses the page so thoroughly that it might just as well feed into a database. The only problem, of course, is the space. I have over 1 GB free, but my host will give me only 200 MB in database space... :rolleyes: You could put just meta-data into the DB, so you could enable searches based on things like thread participants and dates. quote: Originally written by Rufus Rothgard: *Do people actually read* the archives? I read it about as often as waybackmachine's archives: once in a few months when I am very bored. I think one of the main points is that this is a fun programming exersize for Aran. [ Friday, July 14, 2006 11:51: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 \| Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00**
Ash Lael E Equals MC What!!!! Member # 5491	written Friday, July 14 2006 20:41 Profile Homepage #19 I occasionally read old topics, to remind myself where my life went. :P -------------------- SupaNik: Aran, you're not big enough to threaten Ash. Dammit, even JV had to think twice. Posts: 1861 \| Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00
The Immortal BANNED Member # 4	written Friday, July 14 2006 20:54 Profile Homepage #20 If you still post here, it hasn't gone anywhere meaningful. -------------------- * Posts: 6936 \| Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00
Spring Shaper Member # 5450	written Friday, July 14 2006 22:12 Profile Homepage #21 quote: Originally written by Rufus Rothgard: If you still post here, it hasn't gone anywhere meaningful. You still post here. :P -------------------- I'll put a Spring in your step. :ph34r: Posts: 2396 \| Registered: Saturday, January 29 2005 08:00
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, July 15 2006 02:15 Profile Homepage #22 I guess the answer is "exactly". For me too... :rolleyes: -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Randomizer Law Bringer Member # 6785	written Saturday, July 15 2006 17:51 Profile #23 The archives are nice when you want an answer to a question that's already been answered. Although most people just keep asking the same questions over and over again. quote: Originally written by Rufus Rothgard: If you still post here, it hasn't gone anywhere meaningful. You still post here. Do you really want him out in the real world? At least we're used to him. Posts: 4643 \| Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00
Dikiyoba Councilor Member # 6600	written Friday, July 21 2006 02:10 Profile Homepage #24 Originally by TM: quote: Do people actually read the archives? I'm currently reading through (well, I'm skimming through as often as I'm reading) all the old threads, from the lowest forum up. Admittedly, Dikiyoba hasn't used the PPP archives much, because none of the forums so far have been purged since the archive's creation, but when Dikiyoba gets to the General Forum, it will be necessary. Posts: 4346 \| Registered: Friday, December 23 2005 08:00