So, here is an update, especially for those would-be pioneers anxiously (hopefully!) awaiting their stagecoach passes…
As recorded in several posts this week, I took care of a few things this week on the forum system.
As for the “complex” bit I mentioned, well, that has taken some pondering. I basically had two ways to do it.
The first was the way I had it. I just needed to do some amount of re-coding to get things to work the way they should. I have a “lite” version of the forum system on another site that is working, however, the advanced bit that I thought was working doesn’t. The reason is because, on the other site, there is only one of something while on the new site, there are a number of them. Where one works just fine, with multiples it doesn’t. I don’t remember if I thought I had that solved or if I just figured I’d take care of it on the full version. Either way, it wasn’t working for the full version.
So, there was one way of fixing it, and I was thinking along that way as to how to get it to work. Somewhere in there I realized that I didn’t want to be restricted to that one way of doing it. It was much too linear, whereas what I would prefer is something more flexible.
Flexibility became the goal. That created a new set of problems. Mainly, it created problems for navigation because, while there could be multiple ways of getting somewhere, once there, you’d have to find the way back. And there was the problem. You don’t want to get into something and them, upon leaving, taking an entirely different track then you took to get in, especially if you were looking for something you had already passed.
However, shortly afternoon today, as in just a few minutes after noon, I arrived at what I believe to be a solution to that problem. Coincidentally, it is similar to a solution I used for an almost completely different problem earlier on, way back when I was still working on the “lite” version on the other website.
So, I need to make a change to the database and then begin coding. And, while I’m making changes to that database, I might as well make changes to another database to code in another feature I want to add. It’s not a user-oriented feature so much as it is an admin-oriented feature, but it is something that may be beneficial to some users in the future. And it’s probably something I should have thought to do a long time ago, but it hadn’t crossed my mind.
Well, well, back to work…