Planning Area - ideas,code,etc.. in here - Page 7

codefreek · 07-13-2008, 01:28 PM

Jim, yeah well lets just try..

codefreek · 07-13-2008, 01:31 PM

also would be great if you guys could help out in here.
Information to the developers in the team [READ]

oh and also we got a new offer today.
from abiko,

Quote:

Hello!

I can help the Phlox project with hosting..
What are your needs?
I offer -
PHP5, MySQL5 - seen the PDF file - that is what you need..

so yeah all is working out great on that point.
but yeah people please try to help out here!

Information to the developers in the team [READ]

Thank you.

sjaq · 07-13-2008, 03:47 PM

As I said in the other topic:

Quote:

I'm not "in the project" but please let someone with an eye for design do the design, IMHO the design of that project pdf looks awful and if you're going to design the whole system like that it useless to make because nobody will use it. The eye wants something too, you know ;).

Jim · 07-13-2008, 03:53 PM

Design is something that will be later, not important yet. If you want to see something, for fun I've made a little quick about page on The Phlox project - By the community of TalkPHP.com.

Tanax · 07-13-2008, 04:20 PM

A permission system is quite hard to do. But I'm up for it.

Village Idiot · 07-13-2008, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by sjaq

As I said in the other topic:

I don't know what would possess them to let me design anything for the project. I am a programmer, not an artist.

Worry about design last, it shouldnt be a problem since if you use a templating system.

Also, why would you think a PDF (well, I made it in powerpoint) design would be our site design?

drewbee · 07-13-2008, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Tanax

A permission system is quite hard to do. But I'm up for it.

I dont think its to difficult to do. Well; maybe a little :D

I was thinking just a simple ACL setup all completely powered by the database.

Naturally we will need an admin screen for managing this. It may be a good idea to research into others available out there and see if there are any already done solutions if we can't come up with it ourselves.

drewbee · 07-13-2008, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Village Idiot

I don't know what would possess them to let me design anything for the project. I am a programmer, not an artist.

Worry about design last, it shouldnt be a problem since if you use a templating system.

Also, why would you think a PDF (well, I made it in powerpoint) design would be our site design?

Exactly. We could completely design this out of straight, unstyled garbage looking website. Sure its difficult to program with; but I suspect alot of us programmers are use to doing this and making the actual design last (usually if designed well enough everything will just pick right up).

codefreek · 07-13-2008, 07:45 PM

please people focus on the stuff in hand don't focus on what sjaq is saying i don't even think he knows what the project is about.

as a reminder please look at the thread for developers and look if you can help solve one of those things, before we can start

Codefreek. H.M

Kalle · 07-15-2008, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Tanax

A permission system is quite hard to do. But I'm up for it.

A permission system is quite simple, we can just use bits =)

Jim · 07-16-2008, 02:58 PM

Bits? What be that?

About the project, codefreek please provide me with some info of what should be done first thing. We quickly need to start coding or else ill get mad :p

drewbee · 07-16-2008, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim

Bits? What be that?

About the project, codefreek please provide me with some info of what should be done first thing. We quickly need to start coding or else ill get mad :p

lol. I dont think we even have a direction yet. Were waiting on VB Projects to be installed, and as far as I understand that, we can use that to track bugs, as well as 'feature enhancements' to the script.

Also, we kinda need our standards laid out too.

Village Idiot · 07-16-2008, 07:30 PM

Then someone step up and take initiative. Codefreek will probably accept anything proposed.

Alex · 07-17-2008, 12:10 PM

I know I'm not 'supposed' to be posting in this forum, but I'd just like to point out that you could use a set of guidelines which are endorsed by other big open source projects such as phpBB, Joomla etc.

I personally prefer the phpBB3 • Coding Guidelines
. Not all of the things in that document would relate to your project, but most of it is good stuff.

You could alternatively follow the PEAR guidelines

ReSpawN · 10-08-2008, 11:31 AM

To get back on track here, I volunteerd a couple of months ago but got caught up with school and adittional work, so not really anything came out of that.

I would like to ask if there are still some 'spots', so to speak, left for me to work on. Also, after reading 4 out of 7 pages, I was wondering what the status on a server is. I got a free, high quality server sitting dorment, which only needs a domain pointer.

Next to that, I am up for the task. If only someone could get me back on track, that would be greatly appreciated.

Appologies for the lack of propper grammar, but I am in a hurry. :P

Oh damn it, just on my way out ... I totally agree with the name Phlox! My favourite character in Star Trek Enterprise (Ship's doctor).

sketchMedia · 10-12-2008, 04:53 PM

Sorry for going slightly off topic, but to answer Jim's question:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jim

Bits? What be that?

Using bits for user permissions, like this example:

PHP Code:


			
class level_flags
{
    const VIEW       = 0x01;
    const ADD        = 0x02;
    const DELETE     = 0x04;
    const EDIT       = 0x08;
}
// Set the user's permissions
$userFlags = level_flags::ADD | level_flags::EDIT;

// Does the user have permission to VIEW?
if($userFlags & level_flags::VIEW)
{
    die('Yes');
}
else
{
    die('Go away!');
}

Here i have used hex to show each permission and used the & bitwise operator to check if the correct bits are set, thus giving us a powerful permission system.

This particular example returns 'Go Away!' because the VIEW isnt set within $userFlags which only has ADD and EDIT bits set.

This technique is used in a script that Wildhoney posted not long ago: Easy to Modify Login Script with Hierarchical User Permissions and XML Account File

Here is a great bitwise resource: PHP Bitwise Tutorial by Jim Plush

codefreek · 10-23-2008, 01:13 AM

i am open to anything ;)
as the matter of fact i have a project already going on,
and maybe if we don't kick off. With this project for now.
Some of you could join my crew just if you are bored ;)
pm me if you want to ;)

(PS; just for now but i still want to make this project that we have talked about)

i am open for ideas ?

as i haven't heard back anything from wildhoney about the vb thing to be installed i don't know :/

codefreek · 11-19-2008, 08:03 PM

so guys and girls, what are we going to do ??

Jim · 11-19-2008, 08:15 PM

What about you kicking the hell out of us programmers and getting us to work? :D