I feel the need..

[Guest]

To apologize for so much gravedigging. D:

Why? Well, I tend to let my dragons that need paging pile up in HUGE GIGANTIC HEAPS. When I finally get around to paging them and posting on the boards.. Well it's bringing all the old boards up to the top and I feel like I'm making the place messy or something idk.

Not sure if this bothers anyone; but yeah. I also don't know many of you here very well so I feel like a little hanger-on who just grabs all these freebies and hoards them all~ I would contribute if I had the means, promise <3

[Shard]

hehe. Not to worry. Right now, mine are probably going to wind up doing the same because of my very spotty internet service.

[Cy]

I'm not bothered lol

[StarFyre]

<.< I haven't been "as involved" as I could be, but that's because I'm working on updating and entering everything I own into a database, to be turned into autogened tables later (*GASP* the candis directory will have an index page!).

And I've already decided that I'm not going to upload *anything* until I get the current uploaded pages fixed and entered. Because I already have all my css files changed to be similar to the new version of the Akelara page (because I like the "fake frames" look better than what I currently have everywhere), and I can't upload anything new without breaking everything old c.c;; snerk. Go me.

...

On an up-ish-down-ish side, I will finally be able to stare at something and tell you straight exactly how many poor, poor neglected dragons I own.

[delyar]

I admire your patience Star. I considered trying to stuff all my info into a database. Then I stuck just the dragons in a database and had over 480 entries. Add that to no real knowledge of PHP and I ran away screaming. :P

I don't think any of us mind the bumpage. If anything, it's reminding us other slackers what we still need to update. (Guilty!)

[StarFyre]

I am quite literally taking this one page at a time. It's the only way I'm staying sane =P I'm in the C's now! (Started this evening in the A's) PROGRESS!!

And, pft, I'll learn the PHP as I do it! >.>;; It's not actually that much different from other things I've done before.

[Yakima]

Was IS the difference with PHP? I really don't even know what it is.

[StarFyre]

PHP is a "server-side scripting language" that enables you to dynamically generate pages based upon inputs that it receives. It's most commonly used in conjunction with an SQL database that contains some information that it accesses, sorts somehow, then displays on the page. For example - this board is PHP-based, in that it's using PHP to access the database of messages, query that database, then display the results of whatever "query" was sent to it. In this case, a "query" is something that doesn't even look like a query to us -- clicking on the link to view the General board is a query, clicking on a link to view this topic is a query, etc.

"Server-side scripting language" means that all the PHP is evaluated before being sent to the client (in this case, the client is whatever browser you're using to view the website). So there is no way to view PHP by clicking on "view source". The PHP is already "gone" by the time the page is loaded in your browser, in that it's already been evaluated and has generated html code that the browser can read and interpret.

Compare this to javascript, which is a client-side scripting language, and which you can view when clicking on "view source". That's because the client (the browser) is given the page "as is" and the javascript is capable of acting independently of any server. If I take a page that has javascript on it, and download it from the website (for example one of the generators like what I have on my website, for the clutches, or the abilities generator), I can open the page locally and it will work exactly the same as if it was online. If I download a PHP page (for example, if I download a copy of the Nexus Forum main page) and try to open it locally, I will see exactly what I saw when I downloaded it. If I get a PM, it won't show up on that page. If people log in, I won't see it. If messages are posted, they won't appear. That's because all I've downloaded is "static html", separate from the PHP that actually generates the page every time I click refresh.

[Yakima]

oh...XD thanks.

[StarFyre]

^^;; sorry, did I go geek-talk on you? I tried not to, but when my teachers explain it to me with even more jargon thrown in... ^^;; *terrible sometimes*

[Yakima]

LOL no, no! I actually understood it!

I honestly would love to find a way to create a page template and then be able to go in and quickly fill in the character's information without having to open the page...almost like what I have with CSS but...not. LOL

But, no I understood it. Thanks! XD

[Graeth]

Not that it matters, but I'm not bothered.

Of course I still haven't really grasped the main point behind this site in the years that I've been here.

[Cy]

Not that it matters, but I'm not bothered.

Of course I still haven't really grasped the main point behind this site in the years that I've been here. :lol:

There is no point :] It's a hobby. It brings happiness.
And cute little baby dragons.
And stories.
And hair pulling.
And deadlines.
And stress.
And
I wouldn't have it any other way ^_^

But really, when I think about it... if I invested all the hours I've put in this board, into something productive... eesh. Best to just not think about it.

*walk off muttering about hover cars*

Hey, someone tell the smart people to stop playing WoW and go back to inventing hover cars. Wasn't the Jetsons cartoon set in 2010 or something like that? Ridiculous, I demand a car I can fold into a briefcase. Chopchop.

/ramble

[Shard]

Pffff. The plastic future of the 50s never happened. Flying cars. feh.

Wouldn't you far rather have dragons, than flying cars? Heck that's what my talon city people have, right?

[StarFyre]

Erasing the Line Between 'Hobby' and 'Insanity.'

I believe our chosen slogan says it pretty well. =P We're just a group of dragon-obsessed fangrrls with nothing better to do (or, at least, back when the Nexus first started no one had anything better to do)