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Sosolid2k - Website/videos blog
Topic Started: Jun 2 2009, 12:28 AM (11,175 Views)
Nadrew2
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thats the part where i say it would take 5 years lol
sites looking better though :)
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Anything with Youtube's API takes years '-'

Spent the past 4 hours on the entry processing:

Checking the video hasn't been entered to the challenge already
Checking the user hasn't entered the challenge twice in the same day
Checking the challenge is still accepting entries
Checking the video is uploaded by the user submitting it
Checking the video isn't set to private
Checking the video can be embedded
Checking the video exists

About 90% of that time is from getting error message from Youtube's API XD It seems to like setting variables to null and messing the rest of the code up that's using em.

Think it's working ok atm, still a few bugs with checking the vid can be embedded but hopefully shouldn't be too hard to fix.

Hopefully can get the filter for creating a challenge done today too XD
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K think I have the spam filters done for now.

If you're not busy and wouldn't mind helping test it could you please do this:

Go to http://www.sosolid2k.co.uk/new-challenge.php

Try to create a new challenge without filling the form in properly - Should get an error message telling you what is wrong

Then try creating a challenge properly - It should hopefully work, or if you've done something wrong it should tell you what.

Go to your challenge and try and enter a video that will not work (either made up, has embedding disabled or is set to private) - You should get an error.

Refresh and try again but enter a regular video ID that should work - The vid should be entered to the challenge.

Refresh the page again and try enter the challenge a second time, you should get an error.

Go back to http://www.sosolid2k.co.uk/new-challenge.php and try create another challenge and you should get another error.

Then post here saying if everything went right, or if anything went wrong (e.g not getting an error message when you should have, or getting an error message when you shouldn't be getting one).

Don't worry about what the challenge/entries are about it's just to test it works, they'll all be getting deleted anyway before it's finished.

Thanks! <3

Time to work on viewing/voting on entries =D
Edited by sosolid2k, Jun 7 2009, 08:06 PM.
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Jun 7 2009, 06:52 PM
K think I have the spam filters done for now.

If you're not busy and wouldn't mind helping test it could you please do this:

Go to http://www.sosolid2k.co.uk/new-challenge.php

Try to create a new challenge without filling the form in properly - Should get an error message telling you what is wrong

Then try creating a challenge properly - It should hopefully work, or if you've done something wrong it should tell you what.

Go to your challenge and try and enter a video that will not work (either made up, has embedding disabled or is set to private) - You should get an error.

Refresh and try again but enter a regular video ID that should work - The vid should be entered to the challenge.

Refresh the page again and try enter the challenge a second time, you should get an error.

Go back to http://www.sosolid2k.co.uk/new-challenge.php and try create another challenge and you should get another error.

Then post here saying if everything went right, or if anything went wrong (e.g not getting an error message when you should have, or getting an error message when you shouldn't be getting one).

Don't worry about what the challenge/entries are about it's just to test it works, they'll all be getting deleted anyway before it's finished.

Thanks! <3

Time to work on viewing/voting on entries =D
Ya when I visit that page the 'Undergoing Maintenance' image appears.
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http://www.sosolid2k.co.uk/challenges.php?error=1

Comes up from that link
Edited by I Dont Kn125, Jun 9 2009, 01:54 AM.
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You need to be logged in first, that's a login error :P

The challenge section was getting a bit boring to code so rather than force myself to do it and end up slacking half the time, I've started work on redesigning Epicninja.

I'm speeding up the homepage with XML feeds rather than direct database connections, and adding more links to games, categories etc to make finding games easier.

Also gonna try setting up a little store to help bring in more money to upgrade the server to dedicated when it's available (just selling t-shirts, hoodies etc). Not gonna be able to do that with the current ad revenue, but hopefully the new design, faster loading times etc should help it grow to earn enough to upgrade. It already uses a lot of bandwidth and if it gets too high the host could shut the site down for using too much, or refuse to renew the hosting package for high usage, so it really needs to get dedicated before anything like that happens.

Here's the top bit of the homepage so far, still a few things to tweek, like adding a search bar, a link to your favourites and fixing the theme selector, but that'll be close to the finished thing.

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Each of the links has a submenu when you hover over it (the yellow area), so you can access the stuff quickly from any page.

Below this will be new games, then I'll have a bunch of games under that, which are the top rated games in each of the categories.

Almost 450 games on the site now lol, I'm gonna have to play all of them and take new screen shots for the wide thumbnails :s

There will be a grey-black skin and a lighter white skin for those that prefer light sites, gonna get these done before it's updated so it's not left behind like on ss2k :P





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Woah, didn't really see this thread :o

I would guess doing the same bit of sosolid2k.co.uk would get boring as hell, nothing wrong with starting something fresh while doing it.

Also, PHP seems alot like mSL, I guess I should start learning more languages to have fun with, or even to make a decent website for my bot. Are there any guides that have helped you with sosolid2k.co.uk?
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Jun 10 2009, 11:45 PM
You need to be logged in first, that's a login error :P

The challenge section was getting a bit boring to code so rather than force myself to do it and end up slacking half the time, I've started work on redesigning Epicninja.

I'm speeding up the homepage with XML feeds rather than direct database connections, and adding more links to games, categories etc to make finding games easier.

Also gonna try setting up a little store to help bring in more money to upgrade the server to dedicated when it's available (just selling t-shirts, hoodies etc). Not gonna be able to do that with the current ad revenue, but hopefully the new design, faster loading times etc should help it grow to earn enough to upgrade. It already uses a lot of bandwidth and if it gets too high the host could shut the site down for using too much, or refuse to renew the hosting package for high usage, so it really needs to get dedicated before anything like that happens.

Here's the top bit of the homepage so far, still a few things to tweek, like adding a search bar, a link to your favourites and fixing the theme selector, but that'll be close to the finished thing.

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Each of the links has a submenu when you hover over it (the yellow area), so you can access the stuff quickly from any page.

Below this will be new games, then I'll have a bunch of games under that, which are the top rated games in each of the categories.

Almost 450 games on the site now lol, I'm gonna have to play all of them and take new screen shots for the wide thumbnails :s

There will be a grey-black skin and a lighter white skin for those that prefer light sites, gonna get these done before it's updated so it's not left behind like on ss2k :P





Hey soso, maybe I can help make a browser, Like call it sosolid2k online and people click it directs to your site as homepage link?
Noi172 is what it should be, Noister is what it is about to be.
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Zeldy
Jun 11 2009, 12:09 AM
Woah, didn't really see this thread :o

I would guess doing the same bit of sosolid2k.co.uk would get boring as hell, nothing wrong with starting something fresh while doing it.

Also, PHP seems alot like mSL, I guess I should start learning more languages to have fun with, or even to make a decent website for my bot. Are there any guides that have helped you with sosolid2k.co.uk?
Ya the challenge section is a pain in the ass, lots of bugs and confusing stuff so too much can get annoying XD

And ya it looks pretty similar, I learned the basics of PHP at college, but I've been using mostly w3schools.com and php.net for stuff I don't know. There's loads of tutorials around the place for specific things though.

and noti, what do you mean? If you mean linking to the site that's up to you lol, don't need to 0.0
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Jun 11 2009, 12:27 AM
Zeldy
Jun 11 2009, 12:09 AM
Woah, didn't really see this thread :o

I would guess doing the same bit of sosolid2k.co.uk would get boring as hell, nothing wrong with starting something fresh while doing it.

Also, PHP seems alot like mSL, I guess I should start learning more languages to have fun with, or even to make a decent website for my bot. Are there any guides that have helped you with sosolid2k.co.uk?
Ya the challenge section is a pain in the ass, lots of bugs and confusing stuff so too much can get annoying XD

And ya it looks pretty similar, I learned the basics of PHP at college, but I've been using mostly w3schools.com and php.net for stuff I don't know. There's loads of tutorials around the place for specific things though.

and noi, what do you mean? If you mean linking to the site that's up to you lol, don't need to 0.0
I mean making a Web browser so it has like letters RS on it and has your mask fading in middle and god sword and when you see on bottom instead of internet explorer or those other web browsers it says Sosolid2k Browser.
Noi172 is what it should be, Noister is what it is about to be.
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Making a browser isn't easy lol 0.0

But no it's ok thanks :P
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Jun 11 2009, 12:47 AM
Making a browser isn't easy lol 0.0

But no it's ok thanks :P
Ok, but it's pretty easy I found a tutorial how to make one.
Noi172 is what it should be, Noister is what it is about to be.
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Jun 11 2009, 12:27 AM
Zeldy
Jun 11 2009, 12:09 AM
Woah, didn't really see this thread :o

I would guess doing the same bit of sosolid2k.co.uk would get boring as hell, nothing wrong with starting something fresh while doing it.

Also, PHP seems alot like mSL, I guess I should start learning more languages to have fun with, or even to make a decent website for my bot. Are there any guides that have helped you with sosolid2k.co.uk?
Ya the challenge section is a pain in the ass, lots of bugs and confusing stuff so too much can get annoying XD

And ya it looks pretty similar, I learned the basics of PHP at college, but I've been using mostly w3schools.com and php.net for stuff I don't know. There's loads of tutorials around the place for specific things though.

and noti, what do you mean? If you mean linking to the site that's up to you lol, don't need to 0.0
Ok thanks, I guess I'll be checking them out tonight lol, I hope you have fun going through 450+ games getting a pictue for each one :P
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Ya that's gonna be a pain, hopefully won't take too long, maybe a day or two, since I won't have to play the games much to get a quick screenie for them. Gotta go through the database too and update some with a few new categories I'm adding (adventure, sport, music and maybe others) so that won't be fun either XD

Been working a bit more on the homepage today, had quite a lot of problems with it displaying properly in multiple browsers, but think I've finally got it displaying properly. It'll probs change a little before it's done, but shouldn't be much just a few minor things and maybe adding some extra stuff.

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Also loading about twice as fast as the current homepage, and it's not using any database connections so won't be slowed down by that when there's slow times.

Gonna try make sure games are playable even when the database is down too, probably by adding the 'fullscreen' link to all games that are displayed on the homepage. So whenever that happens people can at least still play a few games rather than the site going almost completely dead until the database is back up XD Also should be useful for people that enjoy playing them in fullscreen and don't wanna have to load the game screen up to access it.

Probs gonna work on the script to create the xml feeds for the stuff on the homepage tomorrow. Then it's basically just the footer and fixing a few things up and the homepage should be done.


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This is all very interesting but *coughslaycough*
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