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Need help with what direction to take.

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:33 am
by j2ee
My apologies ahead of time if this isn't in the right thread. I'm wondering if there is a function or class that would make easy work of this..

I have a member based website where everyone get's to upload a video or vote on uploaded videos which is immediately sent live. The site records and displays all of the views and votes per account for the videos. The site was built to handle one video per person, now I need to be able to give a half dozen users the ablility to upload three more videos each and have them all voted on individually plus record the stats ie:videos/votes per video to be displayed on the users profile page. The only thing was when the site was built this wasn't built into it. It's all done in php/mysql so it shouldn't be too hard but it wasn't built on a framework and I don't know where to start.

Any help would be awesome!

Cheers!

Re: Need help with what direction to take.

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:50 am
by Jade
Personally I think how you go from here should be based on any other plans or features you may have in the future. If you see the website growing and continuing to develop then a more structured framework would be a big plus when you later decide that movies need tags (just edit your movie class) and users need friends (just add an friends list to the users class). On the other hand if adding multiple videos is a one time thing and you don't plan to add any other features or additions then just updating your existing code seems like the best solution.

Then of course there's also the time/effort involved in making that kind of change. Re-writing your entire site will take a lot longer than procedurally slapping up a few new features.