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Thursday, August 03, 2006

More PHP development with PEAR, Smarty, mySQL

Socglue.com news:
I have been continually adding more features to socglue.com. All items are coming together and I hope to begin users' web spaces early next week. I have been extremely busy writing spiders and other nifty little scripts in order to facilitate the smooth operation of the website as it grows.

I am taking care to make sure that people (mainly teenagers) are safer on socglue.com than has been the case with other website societies. Of course, everything can not be moderated unless I hire an individual to constantly administer and check data for contact information. Chat is probably one of the worst source for predators online and, for this reason, will likely to be axed.

Videos are now able to be posted in the blogs. I am working on updating to the latest version of FCKEditor to allow easy addition of flash videos through the editor. As far as other video types are concerned, I will most likely be programming a plugin for this.

Other items:
I was searching around on the NBA on the Phoenix Suns website, since they are my favorite NBA team, and noticed a typical browser compatibility error in their menu system. It is amazing how many people are still employing quasi web developers that just use third party applications to create websites. Anyways if anyone is interested, the menu does not display correctly for "Player News & Features" under the "News" menu.

The information on that website is a bit scattered and not geared real well towards a devout Phoenix Suns fan, so I did a bit more searching and found a great blog, Phoenix Suns Rising,that has a great spin on the latest happenings with the Phoenix Suns. The content is good, entertaining, and its a great place to converse with other die hard Phoenix Suns fans.