Scratch

Your database has an column for "image". We're deleting that, right?
Also, we have "name" and spec". Do users have to enter both or can we filter the name out of the spec? Panther and BYOB the name and spec is the same anyway.

P.S, I'm hardly in charge, you probably know more or the same level of php and MySQL as me, I'd prefer it if we worked together on this on equal footing!

(be back in about half an hour)

Last edited by sparks (2011-06-06 13:36:39)

Am I still apart of this?

sparks wrote:

A Hamachi network might be cool. Never used it before...

I can create it if you want.
...
Stupid 000webhost. I tried to log in with your email, and it locked the account because I was in the US instead of the UK like you are. I emailed the update link, and you should probably disable that security measure (the page says to check the "Customer Details" tab and click your email).

sparks wrote:

ProgrammingFreak wrote:

Am I still apart of this?

Go for it!

A Hamachi network might be cool. Never used it before...

Ok.
Yeah.

Sorted the sounds problem, both sound and sounds are now supported. Also, cap is now supported as an alternative to stop for the type. Got to try and fix the green colour in variable blocks now. Some problem with the HSV to RGB code, I think.

From my experiences building my own website, I strongly recommend that we try to avoid float commands in CSS and PNG images as Internet Explorer fails spectacularly when it comes across either sometimes.

Are you still accepting people? I'm pretty good with HTML and CSS, but I don't know PHP or anything of the sorts...


Please reply... 

sparks wrote:

Well I'm not too happy with the graphics but if you look at the share a block page you can see the sort of idea I'm going with and the beginnings of the php for the forms!

You'll notice that I'm using the GET command to carry the information from one part of the page to the next. I will be using POST to carry the passwords and other information submitted in the form for a higher security incuding md5 encrypting of the password as it is sent.

Does anyone know how to read the result of the Scratch API that tells you if the username and password given is a valid one?

Looking good! For the Scratch API, if a username/password combination is invalid, it contains the data 'false', if valid, the data 'user_id:username:banned_status'. You'll want to use the PHP function 'trim' to remove whitespace from the start and end of the result.

Does our site allow us to use javascript? I've been trying to make a popup marked "why?" next to the password field but it's not working!

Otherwise, can someone see where I have gone wrong?:

<p>Password <a href='JavaScript:void(0);' onclick='JavaScript:window.open('http://www.theblocklibrary.site11.com/userpasswhy.html','popUpWindow','height=600,width=950,left=50,top=50,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,toolbar=yes,menubar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes');'>Why?</a></p>

Apart from the javascript problem above the form for Panther is done! I just need to add the error checking and block uploading! I will do this tomorrow, I hope what I've done is what you guys had in mind!

P.S - TheSucessor, I love your block search system! May I suggest that in the future you add an advanced search option where using checkboxes you can include or exclude each application/category? So if I wanted all Scratch and Panther, motion and control blocks I would have to search four times with the current method! Not a priority but would be a nice feature in the future!

Last edited by sparks (2011-06-07 18:14:15)

Still not working:

<p>Password <a href='onclick='JavaScript:window.open('http://www.theblocklibrary.site11.com/userpasswhy.html','popUpWindow','height=600,width=950,left=50,top=50,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,toolbar=yes,menubar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes');'>Why?</a></p>

Last edited by sparks (2011-06-08 04:28:07)

Only works in IE I believe...

sparks wrote:

Still not working:

Code:

<p>Password <a href='onclick='JavaScript:window.open('http://www.theblocklibrary.site11.com/userpasswhy.html','popUpWindow','height=600,width=950,left=50,top=50,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,toolbar=yes,menubar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes');'>Why?</a></p>

<p>Password <sup><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="window.open('http://www.theblocklibrary.site11.com/userpasswhy.html','popUpWindow','height=600,width=950,left=50,top=50,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,toolbar=yes,menubar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes');">(Why?)</a></sup></p>

That code should work. (I also put the "Why?" text in parentheses and made it in superscript so it wouldn't seem out of place right after the "Password" form label.)

sparks wrote:

@meowmeow55

Is there a way I can drop the BYOB sprite upload box you built on your website into the BYOB upload form so that people can upload their sprites if they have them? In the same way, is it possible to get image uploading for BYOB block code images? It's possible to get each submitter to host their own images but if we do that we run into the problems of people deleting their images after a while, difference in quality of the image and some people not being able to see images from certain hosts!

I'm not sure if DreamHost (my host) allows form data from other sites to be sent to my site (probably not), so I'll have to check up on that. The other option would be to move all the sprites over to the block library site, but that would mean changing the links to all of the many BYOB blocks that are downloadable... 
Actually, any uploads by regular people could just be dropped in a private folder for reviewing by librarians, who could then upload them to my site! We could also have the upload form directly on the block library site for direct moving from the block library site to mine.
Image uploading is definitely doable.

Edit: Your thread about common Scratch system browser paths reminded me of this post I made in this thread a long time ago:

meowmeow55 wrote:

Another suggestion for the site: perhaps there could be a button that spawns more code boxes so that the user doesn't have to make dividers in 1 code box if the code goes in more than one place, and a separate title box for each one?
Quick mockup:

Code:

Where does this code go? (enter the path of where it is in Scratch's Squeak browser)
-------------------------------<box>------------------------------------------------
Code:
[
[
[---------------------------<large box>--------------------------------------------
[
[

[(button) Add another code location]
<!-- ^this would spawn another form just like the one above -->

Last edited by meowmeow55 (2011-06-08 12:40:53)

aww you didn't use my code