Closing shop on SMP Guide

SiriusB

SiriusB

SiriusB

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Hey guys, long time....again!

As the title suggests I plan to shutdown the SMP Guide website I created many, many moons ago.

The reasons for this are

1: I am always switching OS's, sometimes several times a day, so folding is completely impractical.

2: Because of 1, I am completely out of the loop and as such the SMP Website is, I gather, woefully out of date.

Now, you guys have three options:

A: Let me nuke the whole thing and you guys lose it forever.
B: I nuke the site but hand over the database and the original Word document
C: I hand over the whole shebang. PHP, XHTML, DB and all.

My preferred option is C as it allows someone else to host the site. Although that person will be subject to some very horrible PHP code lol. [It was my first attempt! :D]

So, let me know what you lot would like to do.

SiriusB
 
I have 200Mg 0f unused webspace with my provider so i dare say i should have enough space to host it from.
However i would need a few pionters on getting up there as ive never used PHP and Xhtml etc.
The last webpage i posted was a basic HTML job using of all things frontpage express.
So if there is help availeable getting it uploaded correctly to my provider and some tips on keeping it upto date, im willing to host it for the good of the team.
 
Ah a very kind offer.

To run the site your host needs to provide PHP5 and MySQL. If this isn't apparant from looking at the host admin panel you should email them.

Assuming the host has what is needed, I can help you set it all up. After that running the site is easy. The hard part is updating everything! The original guide as it stands took me many, many hours to compile and many more hours to update.

To make updating easier I wrote a very basic Admin panel for the site and I will provide full instructions, although it is pretty basic.
 
SiriusB said:
Ah a very kind offer.

To run the site your host needs to provide PHP5 and MySQL. If this isn't apparant from looking at the host admin panel you should email them.

Assuming the host has what is needed, I can help you set it all up. After that running the site is easy. The hard part is updating everything! The original guide as it stands took me many, many hours to compile and many more hours to update.

To make updating easier I wrote a very basic Admin panel for the site and I will provide full instructions, although it is pretty basic.
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Had a quick look in my F2s account and it definatly supports MySQL and PHP
further investigations lead to the fact its using MySql 5.0.4.5 which appears to be consitant with the PHP5 you mentioned. and looking through the site's faq's it states php 5 is used on thier server.
so it would appear i have everthing required to run the webpage from my service provider
it appears all i need to do now is bone up and learn PHP5 and MySql to keep the site running properly once its been uploaded to my providers site.
 
Excellent!

When I get the chance today I will go through my source code and *gulp* document it.

On the whole it is pretty simple so it shouldn't be hard to wrap your head around it. The only tricky part is going to be setting up the site on your server. Which leads me to ask, does your hosting use CPANEL for changing the server configs etc? If it does it will greatly simplify things.

If not, it isnt the end of the world. Just having phpMyAdmin would be a bonus. Assuming you have no idea what I am on about just tell me who your provider is and I can find out for myself :P
 
ok i can confirm i have access to phpMyAdmin - 2.11.1 from my provider Freedom2Surf
i dont know what it is but i do have access to it
As for Cpanel i cant find anything on it via my provider
 
phpMyAdmin is an excellent tool for managing your MySQL databases. Setting up and populating the database should be easy peasy using pMA :)

Whether or not F2S has CPANEL shouldn't be a problem. I have started writing some documentation and instructions. I will also give you a step by step on how to import the database etc using phpMyAdmin.
 
Cheers sirusb the better the step by step (idiot sheet in my case) the easier i will find it
i suppose i should have looked into this sort of thing years ago as they say better late than never.
 
It shouldn't be difficult.

I had a quick look at the F2S help pages and apparantly you have to enable your database yourself, then after that you get a new link to a database management page. Might be worth taking a look now and see if you can do that.

Helpfully, it also [apparantly] has a link that will provide you all the database connection info for your web apps. If you find it make a note of what it says, as you will need that info to alter the config file for my site.

There are a couple of other things I will need to ask you, but I'll get around to that later once I have everything else done for you.
 
sad to see you give it up siriusB was going to offer a place to host it but i see Sirles got there first would have been nice to have a look at it and help in any way :) as i got a basic understanding of php :)

James
 
I am happy to post a link to the source code - once I have tidied it up a bit. The website belongs to Team 10, so I see no reason why you all can't have a look.

I am sure sir will appreciate any help.
 
Good team work chaps :)

Glad to see the site won't go down, I referred to it many times. I know other teams were linking to it too.
 
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