down to work
Spent four hours so far working on the guestbook for the web site.
Got the code modded so it writes IP addresses to a separate file which *I* can go look at if there ever would be an issue with spam posts or anything, but it doesn't display those, because I just don't feel that's necessary.
Coded in a paging system, though it's very manual... when a page gets long, I'll split off the posts into a new file, and re-direct the code to start saving to that new file, and to display the new file as page one, with links to the old pages for "view earlier" and so on. I know this could be coded into the php, some method of setting a variable for the number of posts, and having it rename all the other variables to (f+1) for each multiple of 10 or 20 or whatever number, and automatically writing to new files/displaying to new pages. But... to actually get it functioning properly is beyond my real ability in php. Yeah, I probably could find some code to copy from something... maybe. But for all the fact that I'm not figuring on having masses of posts and having to change over the pages too often, I think it'd be WAY too much time and frustration to winnow through the code of, say, the online store, and figure out how it does things like divide into pages when it brings back x-many search results. How I have it set up isn't all that elegant, but I tested it and it's functional, and didn't take all that long to set up, so I think it's the best solution for this application, for now. And just in case it IS a good while before I need to change pages, I wrote myself a page of notes detailing each place the links and codes have to have the number changed to point to the new page to use.
I still have to lay out the page with the photos of our feeders/baths/houses in our yard, and finalize some text and make an initial post to get things started before I link it up to the site and make it live. I'm hoping to do that later tonight though. Need the hours for the week, and had wanted to have that up this week anyway. Good timing because it's spring, and it's a good time to try and get people involved with what birds are starting to migrate back and show up at the feeders. Hope people will check it out and post.
As far as those pictures I took today, I'm downloading from the camera, and ... somehow they don't seem to be there. I don't know why... I took about 10 pictures, and the memory card was NOT full... had room for 10 more. So I may have to take the pics again tomorrow, and do this tomorrow after all. How irritating.
Heard back from a couple of studios... both places so far say they rent the DA-88's, so I'd be paying the rental fee plus the studio fee of $25-$55/hr. I was really hoping to find a place that HAS the machines, so I WOULDN'T be paying machine rental fees on top of studio time. Considering that this will probably take about 1-2 hours, assuming there are no problems, all that adds up to more than I want to spend on it. However, both places also gave me the name of a rental place for the machine. So even though it'd be a lot nicer to do it at a studio and be able to do all the tracks at once, it may be much more feasible to just pay a day's rental for the machine and do it here. Because of my sound card, I'll have to do it track-by-track here, but getting the tracks lined back up is more a matter of spending hours doing it that wouldn't have to be spent if they were transferred all at once or even in sets of 8. Probably the money will win out over the convenience though, since it's something I can do. Also I think only about 10 or 12 of the tracks are keeper tracks, with the rest being scratch vocal tracks, which are only in some parts of the song, and won't have to be lined up precisely. Just set into the right sections so I can hear the harmonies I was layering, whether I re-record them exactly the same in the end or not.
At least it's progress. Maybe tomorrow afternoon I can call the rental place, since I'll have the weekend off again and I could find out about maybe renting it for one of my days off.
No practice today. My period started, so I feel icky even though I have the cramps controlled because I caught them starting last night. I started all this coding right around the time it would have been good to go out and practice, but I realized I wanted to take the pictures before I coded all the way until dark, so I went out for the pictures (for all the good that ended up doing). It was chilly out and wind blowing, and not nice at all, and between the monthly nastiness, the weather, and being in the middle of another project, I wasn't going out of my way to put all that aside and practice. Oh well. Maybe over the weekend again.
Got the code modded so it writes IP addresses to a separate file which *I* can go look at if there ever would be an issue with spam posts or anything, but it doesn't display those, because I just don't feel that's necessary.
Coded in a paging system, though it's very manual... when a page gets long, I'll split off the posts into a new file, and re-direct the code to start saving to that new file, and to display the new file as page one, with links to the old pages for "view earlier" and so on. I know this could be coded into the php, some method of setting a variable for the number of posts, and having it rename all the other variables to (f+1) for each multiple of 10 or 20 or whatever number, and automatically writing to new files/displaying to new pages. But... to actually get it functioning properly is beyond my real ability in php. Yeah, I probably could find some code to copy from something... maybe. But for all the fact that I'm not figuring on having masses of posts and having to change over the pages too often, I think it'd be WAY too much time and frustration to winnow through the code of, say, the online store, and figure out how it does things like divide into pages when it brings back x-many search results. How I have it set up isn't all that elegant, but I tested it and it's functional, and didn't take all that long to set up, so I think it's the best solution for this application, for now. And just in case it IS a good while before I need to change pages, I wrote myself a page of notes detailing each place the links and codes have to have the number changed to point to the new page to use.
I still have to lay out the page with the photos of our feeders/baths/houses in our yard, and finalize some text and make an initial post to get things started before I link it up to the site and make it live. I'm hoping to do that later tonight though. Need the hours for the week, and had wanted to have that up this week anyway. Good timing because it's spring, and it's a good time to try and get people involved with what birds are starting to migrate back and show up at the feeders. Hope people will check it out and post.
As far as those pictures I took today, I'm downloading from the camera, and ... somehow they don't seem to be there. I don't know why... I took about 10 pictures, and the memory card was NOT full... had room for 10 more. So I may have to take the pics again tomorrow, and do this tomorrow after all. How irritating.
Heard back from a couple of studios... both places so far say they rent the DA-88's, so I'd be paying the rental fee plus the studio fee of $25-$55/hr. I was really hoping to find a place that HAS the machines, so I WOULDN'T be paying machine rental fees on top of studio time. Considering that this will probably take about 1-2 hours, assuming there are no problems, all that adds up to more than I want to spend on it. However, both places also gave me the name of a rental place for the machine. So even though it'd be a lot nicer to do it at a studio and be able to do all the tracks at once, it may be much more feasible to just pay a day's rental for the machine and do it here. Because of my sound card, I'll have to do it track-by-track here, but getting the tracks lined back up is more a matter of spending hours doing it that wouldn't have to be spent if they were transferred all at once or even in sets of 8. Probably the money will win out over the convenience though, since it's something I can do. Also I think only about 10 or 12 of the tracks are keeper tracks, with the rest being scratch vocal tracks, which are only in some parts of the song, and won't have to be lined up precisely. Just set into the right sections so I can hear the harmonies I was layering, whether I re-record them exactly the same in the end or not.
At least it's progress. Maybe tomorrow afternoon I can call the rental place, since I'll have the weekend off again and I could find out about maybe renting it for one of my days off.
No practice today. My period started, so I feel icky even though I have the cramps controlled because I caught them starting last night. I started all this coding right around the time it would have been good to go out and practice, but I realized I wanted to take the pictures before I coded all the way until dark, so I went out for the pictures (for all the good that ended up doing). It was chilly out and wind blowing, and not nice at all, and between the monthly nastiness, the weather, and being in the middle of another project, I wasn't going out of my way to put all that aside and practice. Oh well. Maybe over the weekend again.