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it might be nice to have a webring for active members here. this could help send more people to free2code as well as member sites.

i'd like to see this open to hosted members as well as non-hosted members who have their own sites. we could make sure people have a certain community rating to join and stay in it as well.

this is probably a bigger project than a lot of suggestions . . . what do people think?

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I think it's a good idea. A good way to get people to go from one site hosted here to another.

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I think if they (Free2Host) are actually working on the web ring. It say in the "Members' Area" that it should be coming soon (left menu above Prefences).

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hey, you're right! i haven't gone to the member's area for quite some time since it just has the inbox and a couple things that are coming soon . . .

i checked the TODO list and didn't see this on there. if it's coming soon we should probably get it on there. also i'm curious as to what the requirements would be for the webring.

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I think the webring idea is an old one that never went further from being just an idea. J & T really have too much on their plates lately for me to want to add that to their TODO list. We do have a hosted members Profile page but that leaves out some very good non-hosted members' sites.

Is there anyone about who would be willing to take this on as their own project, to develop fairly independently but with the necessary coordination with J & T and this main site? ... misterhaan?

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sure, i could give it a try if you guys want . . .

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Cool 8-)

Just had a word with Term about this. He suggests you make it a system where people register to be in the web-ring (not automatic for hosted members), maybe giving some info about their site. It's best if you develop it on your current hosting but, once complete, we can transfer it to the US site (where free2code resides).

BTW, we are aware that we're lagging behind with the hosted members portfolio and your own site hasn't been put up yet. Blame it on this programming competition that Terminal is entering today. We've been a bit tense and distracted.

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So we do get a webring! whoo! Nice to see this gets coded by a member too, maybe we should give some ideas/wishes what it should do and how it would look and so on?
I for one would like to see it very customizable. So everyone can adjust it to his/her layout and ideas, maybe for the pro's to get the code(webringlinks and such) in xml? And for the lesser pro's some default looks? Do we need any graphics for the default looks? etc..
Just thinking out loud here hehe, lets get this webring idea started!

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I know some PHP, maybe I could help somehow? Heh.

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A web ring sounds cool, I would love to be part of it. MavDude if your really serious about this, then can you keep everyone posted about hows it coming? Maybe you could start a new topic, or make this one sticky or something.

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the way i'm invisioning this, it would need the following:

- (done!) database table to keep track of all the sites
- (done!) signup page
- update page
- approve page (accesible only to the owner of the webring)
- (done!) list all sites page
- (done!) redirect to random/next/previous site in ring script
- (basic one done!) xhtml blurb(s) for people to put on their site (this includes any graphics)

can anyone think of anything i've missed?

i haven't done much with any of this yet--if it's going to be integrated into free2code it should use the user information from the forums as well as the template that the rest of the site uses. i plan to start on something preliminary this weekend though.

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chaosnet: I was just giving ideas, misterhaan is the one coding it up And I think this would be the thread were we get updates on how its going, maybe a sticky would be good.

I too think it should be integrated, so we can apply/update with our own forumlogin. But I think this would be the last bit and is for Jester & Terminal to adjust. It would probably be only adjusting the sql queries.

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for now i'm just worrying about the structure for it.
for the pages where you should be logged in, i'm just going to put a login name field on the form for now, so there's no security. i don't think that'll be a problem though since free2code already has code for knowing who's logged in.

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sounds good...maybe you could add a random site feature...

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i've got ringjump.php working to accept either prev, next, or rand as where to go, and also counts how many times each member site sends someone to this script. calling the script without sending it anything just goes to a random site.

ringlist.php right now just writes out a table with the site number, linked site name, and number of hits to the scripts from that site.

those two scripts and defining a mysql table are all i've done so far. next up is the sign up / update page.

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someone deleted a post of mine from this topic, and they must have done it using phpMyAdmin.

Which fiend did it?

hummm, or perhaps I just previewed it and then forgot to submit it fully, I sometimes do that.

/me looks around

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i used to think some of my posts were getting deleted . . . when i send someone an im through miranda i just hit tab, space which sends . . . but here that would disable smilies. some boards have preview, then submit, while others have it the other way around. it's like you all expect me to READ before clicking a button . . .

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How are things going with the webring?

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hmm, i haven't done anything for a while . . . i'll get back into it this weekend

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