I was working on the FFCC website for a little bit today, and decided I’m gonna add support for a shit-ton of stuff…
So far I’ve got classes prepped for Twitter, Akismet, ReCAPTCHA, and Last.fm. I’m also planning to add support for Facebook (possibly, if I can find a use for it) and Flickr. As well as support for my new Network, which will be elaborated on some other time. The database will use MySQLi (of course) and I’m thinking of looking into XCache or APC for Opcode caching. I’m also going to build a template engine based off of Audentio’s, which Mike coded.
But, for now I’ve started on Twitter and ReCAPTCHA. Both of which, are bugged, and I have no idea why. Lol.
Twitter won’t submit status updates, and that’s the only thing it’s supposed to do, so that means the Twitter support does not work at all.
ReCAPTCHA works partially, I can get the Captcha to display, but when I submit I’m always getting a failure… at least I think I am anyway, I haven’t exactly learned ReCAPTCHA’s response codes yet… or I just did something wrong in the submit method… which is highly likely.
There’s also support for ReCAPTCHA’s mailhide module, but that doesn’t work because this server doesn’t have the mcrypt PHP module installed, so I gotta poke James sometime and see if he can install that for me.
And, of course, integration with the forums is implemented.
The original plan for FFCC was to use the Zend Framework as the backend but it would have taken more time to set that up than it would have to just code my own backend.
Oh yeah, gotta go with pretty URL’s, since I’m actually getting relatively good at mod_rewrite.
I’m also reconsidering the design of the site… I love the design but it’s not very versatile. So we’ll just have to see if someone wants to do a new design for me.
You can see the new site here: http://www.ffcrystalcosmo.com/dev/
Comments are welcome, of course, but one thing to keep in mind is the fact that the backend comes first… so NONE of the pages are done yet.
