On a related issue: in some threads just about to get another page, the number of pages (I mean the links) listed above the posts is incorrect and one count higher than the number below the posts.

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"Vegetarianism for me is about saying ‘yes’ to things - even meat." - Coupling

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I use and enjoy it at most other boards Drew- from xpt to the lame sports boards we've talked about. It's a great feature.

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The forum code only keeps track of which threads were read by a member for 10 days. After 10 days those records are automatically deleted. So if you haven't visited a topic in 10 days you might not get directed to the next newest post since the last time the topic was read.

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When you click on active topics, and it takes you to a page on that topic, it won't let you go to a different page in that topic. I was reading the Sasha Grey thread and wanted to go back a page, but it wouldn't let me.

When you click on a different page number, it just takes you back to the last post.

Edited by - redish on 2/13/2007 3:58:47 PM

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Same thing - could not go back to page 1.
Fwiw, that was as of about 10 minutes ago.

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Thanks Drew

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I need to go strip those tags from everywhere on the site. IF every page request is actually two hitting the server that's a whole bunch of extra headroom we should have.

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Anyhu, instead of having a charset in the XHTML output, I put in the following line of code in my PHP files before anything else was written:

header('Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'); [/code]
Does ASP have something similar?

BTW, didn't you mention planning to rewrite the site to XHTML + CSS in an effort to slim down the pages a little?

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Yes, we do want to rewrite the forum and most of the site to be more dependent on CSS but for the moment I'm working on new features and someday we'll get to the other stuff, most likely as part of a complete redesign of the site.

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Things are different now. If we were starting today I would definitely go the PHP route but still not sure about MySQL. I do all of the database access code in stored procedures. As of 6 months ago MySQL's support of stored procedures was still not that great. I'd most likely go with PHP/MSSQL.

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I'll probably be spending a lot more time on their forum than here. I've been putting off some of this development work far too long and people are getting antsy.

Anyway:

You'd probably want to use ADODB for your dal (but you don't have to) with SQL Server:
ADODB

As for MySQL, I too have some reservations about it, but one place I use it doesn't need stored procs or triggers and I hand coded all the referential integrity in the source (don't judge me). Other places I've used it to replace things that were running in drag-n-drop Access database apps (ugh). Works great! If you don't need the features.

For mission-critical production databases, though, ain't no way I'd use anything other than Oracle, DB2, MSSQL, or .. hell, that's about it. Maybe Postgres is there yet. I tried it 6-7 years ago and it threw poo at me. Once bitten twice shy.

As for the feature you asked about, in general I'd say "is it something I can turn on/off if I figure out I want/need it", then sure, otherwise, don't fuck with me, man.

I like adt. I'm used to it. I'm not as young as I used to be and change fucks me up. Be gentle.

If you're not interested in looking into PHP frameworks, I understand. If you are, the other one I'd recommend considering if I were you, as a friend whose already spent many many hours researching this, it would be Cake:
CakePHP

I like the stuff you've been doing. Thanks dude.

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Edited by - Len Nicodemo on 3/16/2007 10:59:23 AM

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