AJAX found it`s way in and ImageShack implementation

Hey,

first the ajax stuff.. look at this image:

the thing that is circled in red is currently done by AJAX. this means that if you change the enabled state it will be changed on the fly and a little message in the lower right corner will pop up and inform you that the settings have been applied. the same goos for the “X” cross (delete that row). when pressing that image (it`s the first image in the admin panel) you will get a confirmation box where you can choose between OK or Cancel. when ok is pressed the row will go away and the little information box in the lower right corner will pop up again (and fade away after a few seconds).

Now for the ImageShack implementation. recently i requested the implementation key of imageshack so that images can be uploaded to imageshack and thereby saving you expensive bandwidth… i`ve gotten the information i needed from imageshack and i can start implanting it but as if now it`s not implanted.. i haven`t done a thing with it besides looking at the coding. so for now ImageShack isn`t implanted in MageDB (at this mometi have no parts where it could be usefull to implant it).

And the Menu System..

well that system is causing me alot of PAIN…… in my brains.. i`ve tried so much with it (in combination with AJAX) and i`ve been bussy with it now for 3 days!! and i`m still not happy with the results..  o well.. it looks like the menu stuff is gonna be my playgroundwith ajax for the time being

till next blog.

IE7 JS Script vs normal IE6 and Firefox on Menu Management

Hey,

That`s how the new menu management looks under Firefox.

That`s how it looks under Internet Explorer 6 with a javascript library that fixes alot of the bugs that microsoft left in IE6. with this javascript (with the name: IE7) you get real png tranparency, alot of css things will work how they should work and a ton of other things are FIXED when using that script. this also means that MageDB will not work (or is ugly) when you have javascript disabled.

And this ^ is how it looks without the javascript library that fixes what uncle bill didn`t want to fix..

so you all should use or atleast enable javascript when this MageDB is gonna be released.

Now for some other news.. if you looked at the images about you might have noticed: “Edit Menu`s” and well.. it is what it sais.. editing menu`s or adding menu`s.. forst i didn`t want to add this stuff to the database becuase it was my idea to have the menu`s just in the template pages.. but with the permission system that i`m gonna make for MageDB it`s gonna get verry hard to disable certain menu items without having them in a database. now it`s easyer to manage that and for the persons that are gonna write mods for magedb (if any) will be a gread advantage now they can just add a menu through the admin panel instead of editing the code.

MageDB ETA Release Date.
i`m not gonna say a date. i do say that it can be released sooner than previously thought (that was with a estimation of 3 more months from now on) but i didn`t counted in the next week.. which is completely free for me so i`m thinking about dedicating that week to the development of MageDB. but wou will all see the results of that here in the ammount of blog posts.

That`s it for now.
till next blog.

XHTML 1.1 Validation Passed!! and Permission system

Hey,

This Page Is Valid XHTML 1.1!

that`s the message that i get when i want to validat pages from my script which is a verry good thing.
All the current admin pages are XHTML 1.1 valid. the non admin pages haven`t been checked yet, but i think i will need to do some recoding there to make them valid.

It realy took me a long time to get all the admin stuff valid, but it`s worth it. Any person that is gonna use a clean version of MageDB without anything changed will have XHTML 1.1 valid pages.

Not much filedb script, if any, can say the same thing with XHTML.. if they have it it will most likely be 1.0 transitional

Now for the permission system. I think i will do it like this:
if anyone can help me with that.. it`s verry hard.

That`s it for now.
Till next blog.

JavaScript, Ajax and Library change.

Hey,

i didn`t showed
you guys the cool javascript and ajax stuff that i`m gonna implant in MageDB but it`s gonna be awsome!.
so for example when you want to add or delete a upload field it will fade and roll in or out (depending on your action). Another gread thing will be the uploading itself and the uploading of images. The thumbnails of images will be created WHILE you add the file.
this will be done with some heavy ajax stuff and alot of php coding!! then when your done with adding the screenshot and the
script has made the thumbnails you will than have the option to: “Use” or “Don`d Use”/”Delete” it. for now you don`t have the
option to change the thumbnail size on the fly but perhaps in the future. The uploading itself will have a PROGRESS bar and
will also be done through javascript and ajax.

Now when you don`t have javascript or you disabled it fer security reasons the script will still work and you will still have all the options you had before.. just not the fancy ajax and javascript things.. i`m still thinking of how i will need to do that field adding part without javascript.. i think it`s gonna be a iframe.. so that i can refresh the page (part of the page) without you having to retype everything

want to see some javascript stuff? look here: http://interface.eyecon.ro/demo

And i did wanted to go with prototype first but prototype and it`s third party libraries seem to have some problems with opera (a browser that validated the acid 2 test so no problems should happen there) so therefore i started hunting on another library anf that was eather Moo.FX, dojo or jquery… and jquery seems so nice that i`m just going with them now. i will try and post a  movie about it soon (when i have something fancy to show)

That`s it for now.
till next blog.

Admin progress

Just check it out.
till next blog.

Database Backup script finished

Hey,

I`ve just finished the Database Backup script that will be used in the admin panel to create a database backup.  The script doesn`t have alot features besides just making a database “dump” file.

Features:

• Create database dump file
• Option to add a “IF NOT EXISTS” in the CREATE DATABASE line
• Option to disable the db entries dump (entries will also be dumped by default)
• it`s compatible with the phpMyAdmin query window (it`s actually based on a phpMyAdmin database dump)

I made this script because i could not find any decent dump script that was just making the dump without anything special.. my version will get way more advanced in time because i will also use this dump script in my phpMyAdmin alternative called LiteAdmin (i already registered that wordpress subdomain ) (liteadmin.wordpress.com will be unmaintained till version 1.0.0 of MageDB gets released).

there is not much more to announce at this moment.

Till next blog
Mark.

First MageDB (admin panel) progress update.

Hey,

Here is the first update for MageDB.

i intend to make MageDB a clean lite script, but the admin panel will be
more advanced than i`ve ever done or modded.

Till next blog.

Welcome to the MageDB Development blog.

Hey,

Over at the opera blog i said that i was looking for a blog site with a better url (better to remember)  and i think i found that in WordPress. WordPress is also a free open source program and that`s one thing that i like alot!!

So the MageDB Development news will be posted here from now on. This wordpress stuff is all pritty nice but i must admit that i will still need to find out some more things here.. (it`s all kinda new for me here) one thing i don`t like here is the font settings while writing this …

The first development post here about MageDB will be posted here shortly allong with some gread screenshots.

Till next blog..