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Progress report: Made a few more changes to the database structure because of suggestions and more things that I thought of. (can be seen in edited post above) Thanks regelus.

Actual work has started. Database structure is in place. Just finished loading all equips into the database. Once I load the non-equips, the database will be all set. Of course, I didn't enter the equips by hand, I made a script to load the equips by reading a hidden street html file. Non-equips will be a little more difficult to do because some of hidden street's pages of non-equips contain items from more than one category according to my classification (healing/effect, movement scroll, upgrade scroll, manual/stim, arrows, throwing stars, ore, refined ore, monster leftover, misc), but the oddities should be few enough that I can just edit them by hand.

Once that's done, I can start work on the actual site. Shouldn't be too difficult since I'm not trying to make it pretty (yet). I need to have a mostly-working version by Thursday, and a complete version by next Tuesday.

Any luck looking for hosting?

Edit: Database is all set up now. It could use some tweaking with items that shouldn't be in the database and such, but it's fine for now.

I could possibly host you off of StudioPD. AIM me at marik297

Oi Spaz I have a good amount of space I don't need that I bought for my Dad that he used to host his website if you wanna use it

Yep, and if those two hosting dun wory, I've got about 5 domains to host you off of

marik297 Wrote:I could possibly host you off of StudioPD. AIM me at marik297

You mean POWERDRIFTS site Marik?

Status report: I'm about done with the registration page. After that, the only pages I'll need to make are the change info page, the detailed view of an ad, with comments and ability to post a comment, and maybe a user lookup later on.

The to do list (only the top 3 things really need to be done by Tuesday, when the project is due):

-Finish registration page
-Make change info page
-Make detailed ad view with characters of the seller/buyer, comments, and ability to make comments
-Show the last comment made for each ad when you're at the "my ads" page?
-Set a maximum for the number of ads you can have
-Put some javascript in the search page to disable the stat fields when non-equip is selected, and to disable the quantity field when equip is selected
-Be able to search for other users and see their characters
-Add some text to the front page explaining the site
-Only dispay x ads at a time on the my ads page and search results, with links to the next x and previous x.
-Sort various menu choices to make it easier to find what you're looking for
-Add some text explaining how the search works
-javascript alert when someone made a comment on one of your ads since your last pageview
-Add some user preferences, such as whether or not search fields are remembered?
-Allow no server to be specified in the search
-Change names of form elements so they're not the same as database fields
-Improve input validation so someone POSTing data from an outside site without all the fields won't give a mySQL error?
-Make the site look nicer
-Remember choices for various forms upon error in input
-A clear button for the search form (that actually clears all fields instead of resetting them to what they were when the page loaded)
-Don't show the remove selected ads buttons and select all ads checkboxes when the user doesn't have any ads