How on earth is it already August?! Where is the time going? Noooo
My internet is slow. Either that or all the sites I'm trying to visit are slow. One or two of them work, the rest don't. Blah.
The heatwave has died down at last, though I sort of wish it hadn't... It's been replaced with the usual summer weather for this country - rain, more rain, yet more rain and temperatures not quite making it into the 20°C (about 60°F? Not sure) region. That still doesn't stop our bedroom from being really hot and humid (even with the window open) and therefore stopping me from sleeping. Like now, it's 5:15am and I should probably not be on my computer at this time.
Anyway. I'm working on a custom blog/content management script. I'm really pleased with it so far, although the functionality kind of resembles WP in many ways so I'm not sure there'll be much point to it other than the fact that it's teaching me a lot in terms of PHP and stuff. So far I have posting (drafts, private entries, password protected entries), commenting, comment moderation and fancy URLs that don't rely on mod_rewrite. :D Yay! I don't have an admin panel yet, so that's the next step. It gets a bit annoying having to login to phpMyAdmin every time I want to approve some of my testers' comments, or edit/delete an entry/comment :P The script is completely written by me, but it borrows 3 functions from WP - mostly formatting stuff because I can't do regular expressions. Those functions are the 'safe' title generator, the entities converter for posts, and the nl2p function. I'm sure I'll eventually be able to "get" regexes and be able to rewrite all that myself (I really need to rewrite it all - WP's functions mess up my stuff by changing absolutely EVERYTHING into alternative entities...), but for now I'm going to use WP's until I get the rest of the script done. And no, I haven't been using the Build A Blog tutorial series, or indeed any tutorial series. This work is (mostly) all miiiiine. Heh.
Adastra
1/08/2006 at 7:32
Don't you have a MySQL Tool? I use SQLyog, which is much much more convenient than PHPMyAdmin - it's fast and it has a lot of features you need frequently. You can get a free version of that, though it tells you to buy the paid version when you start it. But it's still a very helpful tool. There are other tools like that, I think MySQL Front is also similar.
Amelie
1/08/2006 at 8:55
I'm happy enough with phpMyAdmin, although it is a little slow to get to everything. That is an advantage though - it reminds me to get a move on with the admin panel :P
Adastra
1/08/2006 at 17:51
Trust me, once you've started using a tool like SQLyog, you will ask yourself how you ever endured using PHPMyAdmin :P It makes a HUGE differences, and it's sooo much more convenient! ;)
It's also good for making small changes easily, and also for doing complex stuff like selecting, exporting, copying to clipboard, editing the data, inserting it into new tables, and so on.... ^^