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This is it.

Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:35 am
by s.dot
So, this is my website. It's the culmination of everything I've learned here on devnet, and what inspired me to want to learn PHP in the first place.

Over the first year or so of learning PHP, I put bits and pieces of my knowledge together to form a shaky site. Recently I recoded it, and it took me about 3 months. Mostly everything is up and running.

I know its in the same genre as MySpace. However this was not my intent. I started it before I had heard of that site, and my development has in no way been influenced by the site. So it bugs me a little bit when people ask if I'm "trying to take down myspace" or "copy myspace" or the likes.

I just made a place where users could go and chill. =] I've kept this mostly secretive on this site as I'm sure most of you didn't know I had a main website that I worked on.

But there it is, my baby. :oops:

Comments, constructive criticizm, feedback is wanted and welcome!

Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:45 am
by Chris Corbyn
I know you've been doing this before you knew about MySpace (and before MySpace boomed) because I saw it quite some time ago.

It's a great site, seems to have a lot of visitors/members :) Clean design. Overall quite impressive as something you've done during your learning php phase ;)

Side note: You want to specify the character encoding since it's failing to vaidate for it:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% ... pro.com%2F

Just add this meta tag right at the very top of your <head>

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />

Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 9:04 am
by s.dot
Thanks Chris.

When I specify a character encoding, it messes up some signs like &copy; &pound;, etc.. So i have to investigate why it's doing that. Most likely the way i'm storing it in the database.

And, I also plan on using Swift to send out the emails as mail() doesn't seem to be very effective for some reason. So your mailer's going to get a thorough workout pretty soon. :lol:

Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 10:22 am
by ok
You may add a short explantion about the site in the index!

Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 9:18 pm
by s.dot
yeah, thought about it. not really enough room :lol:

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 8:31 am
by Nathaniel
That's pretty slick, scottayy. No criticism from me.

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:26 am
by shiznatix
really nice! i like the layout and everything and expecially since it does not crash my browser like myspace enjoys doing.

Problems!

When I tried to register I got this:
Notice: Undefined index: rate in /home/smp/public_html/register.php on line 42
Please fill in all of the form fields.
and at the bottom of all the pages the rounded ( http://www.showmypro.com/images/tbl_bottom_left_c.gif ) is not connected to the other side one (which is also misaligned). Running firefox 1.5.0.3

Also it does not work without javascript enabled (deleting messages in your inbox thingy).

I'll keep poking around and see what I find

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:38 am
by Nathaniel
I got shiznatix as a random member. Interesting coincidence.

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:39 am
by jayshields
I've just had a look. Really great community/website. Well done.

I can't find any problems, maybe slight overuse of the Yahoo ads, limiting to just one per page would be nice, but you seem to be getting on OK with multiple, so you may aswell leave it.

Can I be so rude to ask how much you've made from the Yahoo ads?

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:05 am
by pickle
A pretty clean site. The only problem I had was with the rounded corners. In FF 1.5.0.4 it seems the cells for the rounded corners are about 5 pixels too tall.

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:21 am
by RobertGonzalez
Very nice. Easy to navigate from the massive assortment of links available. I like the smooth colors and the layout. Good job scottayy.

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 1:58 pm
by s.dot
Thanks guys. I wasn't aware of the rounded corners problem, tried firefox opera and IE, but I'll try those specific versions. I just recoded the entire thing (html/css/javascript/php) so I expected there to be a few problems. Thus, I left display errors on for a while.

You guys are great. :) Thanks for the feedback

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 2:05 pm
by Ree
Indeed very nice :)

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:09 pm
by s.dot
Hmm I can't seem to reproduce the corners error. Could it be a *nix thing?
If someone could provide me a screenshot of it that would be awesome.

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 5:18 pm
by shiznatix
i tried to upload my screenshot to the showmypro site and got this after submitting the form:
Warning: Division by zero in /home/smp/public_html/class/user.class.php on line 321

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/smp/public_html/class/user.class.php:321) in /home/smp/public_html/worker_ep.php on line 46
edit:

if you check my profile it did successfully upload. its a bit hard to see but you can definatly tell what we mean under the peoples pictures.

also, when i go to the upload page i get this error on the bottom:
Warning: Division by zero in /home/smp/public_html/class/user.class.php on line 321

You've used 0% of your picture space.