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#126 2010-12-22 09:27:03
Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
Cool. Are we going to make an icon for our site? You know, a 16 bit one to go in the corner of the webpage tab and under favourites. You just need to save it as a .ico file in the root of our site 
SPEAKING OF WHICH - what's going on now? I thought we were moving sites today but you wanted to stay on the freehostingcloud one?
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#127 2010-12-22 09:33:24
Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
sparks wrote:
Cool. Are we going to make an icon for our site? You know, a 16 bit one to go in the corner of the webpage tab and under favourites. You just need to save it as a .ico file in the root of our site
SPEAKING OF WHICH - what's going on now? I thought we were moving sites today but you wanted to stay on the freehostingcloud one?
yeah so did I, but it's too late now. I've set up an SQL database and added the tables to it. freehostingcloud is fine
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#128 2010-12-22 09:37:39
#129 2010-12-22 09:54:07
Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
sparks wrote:
and the icon? I had a go but it wasn't amazing. Maybe one of the books on the bookshelf shrunk down to 16px?
I was thinking taking the letter 'L' and putting it on a redish background like on the first book. What do you think? 
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#130 2010-12-22 09:58:06
#131 2010-12-22 11:50:57
Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
Pecola1 wrote:
sparks wrote:
Hi guys, I thought I'd put a a few disgustingly bare html forms up - the peak of my HTML knowledge, so you can have a sort of idea as to how I picture the forms to work... if not look
Searching for a block
submitting a Panther block
submitting a scratch block
submitting a BYOB block
By no means are these set ideas, they're just an early representation and I think the contain all the necessary fields that the final ones will have! Feel free to make changes or disregardFor the scratch blocks you need to make a place to say where under scratch objects it will be, like: http://kule.weebly.com/
(I am starting to understand HTML better.)
!!!!!!
If you are reading this, please read to the end, because if you don't you won't know what's at the end. Don't just skip to the end though otherwise you won't be able to read the middle, which is most important. Now you must be wondering why you just read all that, the reason is you may have not noticed something, read it again and see if you notice it this time
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#132 2010-12-22 12:16:35
Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
Pecola1 wrote:
Pecola1 wrote:
sparks wrote:
Hi guys, I thought I'd put a a few disgustingly bare html forms up - the peak of my HTML knowledge, so you can have a sort of idea as to how I picture the forms to work... if not look
Searching for a block
submitting a Panther block
submitting a scratch block
submitting a BYOB block
By no means are these set ideas, they're just an early representation and I think the contain all the necessary fields that the final ones will have! Feel free to make changes or disregardFor the scratch blocks you need to make a place to say where under scratch objects it will be, like: http://kule.weebly.com/
(I am starting to understand HTML better.)!!!!!!
I can't answer for Sparks but I don't think it's particually neccesery. 
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#133 2010-12-22 12:21:32
Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
I've already brought this up in my big post - A dropdown with popular Paths would be good, with a text space for less common ones next to it. We can do that on our site easily enough
You don't really have to answer to me on this anyway You're in charge, I'll just supply suggestions
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#134 2010-12-22 12:34:02
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Daffy22 wrote:
Pecola1 wrote:
Pecola1 wrote:
For the scratch blocks you need to make a place to say where under scratch objects it will be, like: http://kule.weebly.com/
(I am starting to understand HTML better.)!!!!!!
I can't answer for Sparks but I don't think it's particually neccesery.
What if it has no code. That would mean that it has to go under a certain place. Also some of the variables like answer cannot go under certain places or it will not understand and the person creating the block won't know what to do.
If you are reading this, please read to the end, because if you don't you won't know what's at the end. Don't just skip to the end though otherwise you won't be able to read the middle, which is most important. Now you must be wondering why you just read all that, the reason is you may have not noticed something, read it again and see if you notice it this time
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#135 2010-12-22 13:20:40
Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
Pecola1 wrote:
What if it has no code. That would mean that it has to go under a certain place. Also some of the variables like answer cannot go under certain places or it will not understand and the person creating the block won't know what to do.
sparks wrote:
I think we should have one of two options. >...< a dropdown list containing common paths to blockspecs with an "other" text space next to it where a different path can be entered. One thing the current library does not really have is a path for each piece of code and I would like to add that to the new site in order to make block adding easier for newcomers.
I think we've already solved this
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#136 2010-12-22 13:22:35
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Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
how can i help?
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#137 2010-12-22 13:41:38
#138 2010-12-22 13:43:47
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Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
sparks wrote:
IDK. Can you write a script that checks if a scratch username is valid?
I'm not sure... would you have to do a search with scratch or something?
BTW, wheres Daffy22?
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#139 2010-12-22 13:50:43
#140 2010-12-22 13:53:48
Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
I'm here ProgrammingFreak! 
I'm going to scrap the mySQL idea because I'm stuggling with it and Magnie seems to of disappeared 
Anyway, file based is fine (thats what Mod Share is)
as for the suggested path thing could someone possibly do that and save me the work
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#141 2010-12-22 13:54:22
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sparks wrote:
you could try reading a line of the user's homepage to see if it exists? Just an idea.
how bout this. Whatever the person enters, it looks up scratch.mit.edu/users/$user .
if it exists then the script goes on.
$user is the variable.
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#142 2010-12-22 14:12:14
Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
ProgrammingFreak wrote:
sparks wrote:
you could try reading a line of the user's homepage to see if it exists? Just an idea.
how bout this. Whatever the person enters, it looks up scratch.mit.edu/users/$user .
if it exists then the script goes on.
$user is the variable.
yeah, ok. I'm using the variable $username though
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#143 2010-12-22 14:17:43
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Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
Daffy22 wrote:
ProgrammingFreak wrote:
sparks wrote:
you could try reading a line of the user's homepage to see if it exists? Just an idea.
how bout this. Whatever the person enters, it looks up scratch.mit.edu/users/$user .
if it exists then the script goes on.
$user is the variable.yeah, ok. I'm using the variable $username though
should i code it or u?
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#144 2010-12-22 14:25:40
Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
right, I used Panther to compare the HTML source for the userpages of "sparks" and "doesnotexistthereisnocow" (dummystring) and the first difference there was was line 3.
for sparks it was "<html dir="ltr"><head>" and for doesnotexistthereisnocow line 3 is blank (it may be a newline - not sure).
I looked for the first difference because otherwise someone having a message or someone entering their own name or someone else's might affect the HTML code. Hope that helps. If you get it to verify the username by checking if line 3 of the HTML is <html dir="ltr"><head> that should work
EDIT: HTML for line 3 remained the same for a valid account name I wasn't logged into. You can use it!
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#145 2010-12-22 14:30:40
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Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
sparks wrote:
right, I used Panther to compare the HTML source for the userpages of "sparks" and "doesnotexistthereisnocow" (dummystring) and the first difference there was was line 3.
for sparks it was "<html dir="ltr"><head>" and for doesnotexistthereisnocow line 3 is blank (it may be a newline - not sure).
I looked for the first difference because otherwise someone having a message or someone entering their own name or someone else's might affect the HTML code. Hope that helps. If you get it to verify the username by checking if line 3 of the HTML is <html dir="ltr"><head> that should work
EDIT: HTML for line 3 remained the same for a valid account name I wasn't logged into. You can use it!
wut is this?
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#146 2010-12-22 14:41:04
Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
For verifying a user as a valid one! I don't know how to code it, but if you check that line 3 of the HTML file for a scratch user's page is equal to <html dir="ltr"><head> Then that means it's a valid user. If it's anything else, it's invalid.
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#147 2010-12-22 15:02:41
#148 2010-12-22 15:05:02
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Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
Daffy22 wrote:
okay, ProgramingFreak. You program it in PHP and I'll add it to my submit script
So i do the check thing sparks was talking about? I didn't relly get what he was talking about
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#149 2010-12-22 15:12:30
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Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
sparks wrote:
For verifying a user as a valid one! I don't know how to code it, but if you check that line 3 of the HTML file for a scratch user's page is equal to <html dir="ltr"><head> Then that means it's a valid user. If it's anything else, it's invalid.
oh now i understand! Could you show me the Panther Project in text format?
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#150 2010-12-22 15:16:45
Re: Welcome to your local block library! - Website development thread.
Yes... I did
set t1 to line t3 of file at URL: http://scratch.mit.edu/users/sparks
set t2 to line t3 of file at URL: http://scratch.mit.edu/users/nonexistantuserthereisnocow
wait until key space pressed.
Then manually changed t3 until t1 and t2 were different. I started at 1 and the first time that they were different was line 3.
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