What Are You Working On - February 2018
 

Well underway on that large mainstream database project I've mentioned a few times. Phase 1 is creating the administrative back end for data entry and management. I'm doing some more complex SQL queries than I've used in the past. The new learning is fun, but it turns my brain to Silly Putty after a couple of hours, so I have to take a break for an hours or two before diving back in.

When I get to Phase 2, the public pages, I'm going to have to learn responsive design so it can be used on tablets and smart phones too. |crazy|

As I tell everyone, though you probably already realize this, the best thing to do is to grab a free bootstrap template and bend it to your will. Learning is hard. Duct tape is strong. |thumb

As usual, I am juggling projects on many of my domains. I am considering continuing to use WP as the CMS for my paysite tour for adding and editing data and images, but creating my own external template so I can have more control over where and how things appear. I love the WP theme it currently uses, but I have struggled to make it look paysite-ish. In the meantime, I have been adding "model" pages to the tour to give prospective customers a better idea of who is inside, as well as to drag in a few more search engine clicks.

I have already given up on that because WP is a cocksucker. If you want to pull the posts form the database with basic PHP, you end up with all of the post revisions as well. I couldn't find any way to filter that shit-show so I'd get only the most recent revision, so, well, fuck it.

After installing and removing several CMSeseseseses (that's the correct plural), I have settled on Couch CMS. It's a bit of a ballbuster at first, but you design your templates exactly as you want them and place snippets of code in them where you want the data and images to appear. The admin adjusts magically to each template. If you want three separate editable text areas on a template, the admin will create three different text editors. If you want seven images with different thumbs sizes, the image uploader will appear seven times and will create the thumbs of the sizes requested within the template. Neat, eh? So far, I have created a "model" template. I can choose any existing model's page or the blank template and click "add another," and the admin will open a blank new model page. Good times.

I've setup my VPS with VestaCP and Ubuntu 16.04. Tried to harden it a bit (firewall, fail2ban, no root login, require authentication, etc). Now I am attempting to get the DNS working. I've got a hunch that I've buggered the DNS up. Once that is working I'll try and add some domains and away I go!

Sounds interesting. I will have to take a look at it. In a world of WP, Joomla and Drupal its nice to have a change of pace.

I have launched the new Couch CMS tour and I'm pretty happy with it. There was a rather large learning curve with Couch because it is so different. It's not just a quick install for an instant website like so many other CMS's. However, it definitely has major bonuses once you get your head around it.

The one thing to know ahead of time is that your template name will become the name of the directory the pages using that template will appear to reside in. So, if your template is "template.php" and you use SEO friendly URLs, and you have a post named "Useless has a Big Dick," the resulting URL will be mysite.com/template/useless-has-a-big-dick.html. In other words, name your templates wisely. If you don't use the SEO friendly .htaccess thing (which Couch will generate for you), your URLs will be something like mysite.com/template.php?p=16.

It does provide some simple tricks for listing all of your posts on a particular page and the pagination is the easiest I have ever seen. You don't have know PHP to use Couch's tags. It's nice. Your templates are literally HTML pages with bits of Couch's tags slapped inside. If you ever played with Smarty templates, it's a similar idea, but simpler.

http://docs.couchcms.com/concepts.html

Before I forget...again, thanks to Toby for starting this thread |shake|

I'd have probably started it myself if I had anything new going on :(

This is the month I am trying hard to come out of hibernation. I've known for about 6 months or so that my desktop computer way starting to die. I am now, finally on my new one, with almost everything in its place. Yesterday, I got my email set up, and started getting the FTP stuff in place. TGPx is fine - I just had to go searching for the danged password. The new machine is a LOT faster - no shock there - so I am hoping this will let me just get more done. I think the balance of this month will be a bit of cleaning up and then update, update, update. I do see builds on the horizon too. Maybe I will get some of those done this month too.

I'll continue on the path of getting fully back on track.
Getting closer.
Redesign of Smiling Pussy is now high on the agenda. build is on my horizon as well.
And those blogs, as usual :)

Jolly

Almost finished with Phase 1 of the mainstream project. Only pages left to do on the admin back end are some summary reports, then a bit more robust testing of everything before moving to Phase 2 (public pages).

http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...&pictureid=219


http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...&pictureid=220

UW, on my phone looks like title is hidden behind the logo container.

I think that's caused by a problem located between his keyboard & chair.





























|couch|

LOL.

Maybe one of the keys stuck, too much sand on the keyboard :)

Sand? |blowjob|

DAMN IT!|banghead|

The footer is fucked too on the too. Well, now I have something to do. :D

I figured the best way to learn responsive design is to start with small projects then work my way up... redesigned a simple TGP gallery yesterday, not the most impressive work, but it functions as intended... baby steps...
http://www.bevyofbabes.com/tgp/belt-...e-2/indexc.htm

Up next, a responsive single page TGPX template.

Hit a snag right outta the gate on that project... JuicyAds does not yet have responsive ad zones. They're supposedly in the works.

Skipping ahead a week+... things are progressing...

I've developed a responsive layout that has a similar look to their main site. It uses Joomla, so matching it exactly was not an option.

Hit another snag when it came time to build a responsive image slider... It kicked my ass most of the weekend, but I finally beat it into submission early yesterday afternoon.

This responsive design thing is a huge time suck, testing on multiple devices, making adjustments to the coding, testing again to see if it broke on another device. Combined with the current MySQLi requirements making many older MySQL commands obsolete, the learning curve has been steep at times.

Damn the torpedoes. Full steam ahead!

@Toby. updating tgpx or linkx to myqdli or pdo would be a b*tch thing to do

typo

It would be easier to start from scratch. But there's no longer a large enough user base to justify the time/cost of such a project.

PHP 5.6 is currently the official supported version and does not support MYSQL. Is anyone talking about what will happen when that day comes and TGPx won't work? Are there enough people using TGPx to use a paid support model? Are there any other products to which TGPx could be supported? Perhaps there is some money to made for some enterprising person? Inquiring minds want to know!

Not enough users that are making enough money.

Would be just easier to make sure that your server stays php 5.4 and mysql. Worth the talk with the host what's the prognosis. But since 5.4 is no longer supported sooner or later it will go away.

Jeremy from JMB stopped support around 2012/13. Unofficial JMB does not work anymore as well, I guess due to as Toby mentioned not enough interest in the product.

When I had clitpass.com just before I quit adult I was trying to twinker the LinkX code to php 5.6. But decided to quit due to enormous amount of time needed to do it. Time which I didn't had then.

I started to write my own script compliant with pdo and php 7 on any free time I had. Two years later I'm still halfway there. |pokefun||pcsucks|

Best bet would be to just find new product that is supported and actively updated if you want to start from scratch. ( consider flatfile based products as well , easy to maintain and no mysqli or pdo needed then )

Otherwise beg your host to keep php 5.4 if you want to stick with older scripts. TGPX is still a piece of art that's doing the job perfectly at very low to none cost.

A while back Mojo upgraded my dedicated box, old one was getting long in the tooth and a bit slow. They migrated all my info and config.

The initial motivation for the new box was being unable to update Wordpress due to the outdated version of PHP. They tried to install PHP 5.6, but the single site version of TGPX I'm still using won't work on 5.6. Had to roll back to same version as on old box. As a result I killed the few Wordpress sites I had, which weren't significant money makers or traffic generators anyway.