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Re: Making a webcomic: "dynamic hyperlinks"
« Reply #15 on: September 21, 2011, 05:37:10 pm »
I think I can figure this out...

On a new subject, what are some good free webhosting places? I'm looking for some 200+mb space, php, and ad-free. Also it would be nice if the hosting is reliable, etc. and doesn't insert their own scripts into my webpages
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Re: Making a webcomic: "dynamic hyperlinks"
« Reply #16 on: September 21, 2011, 05:51:04 pm »
Quote from: squidgetx on September 21, 2011, 05:37:10 pm
I think I can figure this out...

On a new subject, what are some good free webhosting places? I'm looking for some 200+mb space, php, and ad-free. Also it would be nice if the hosting is reliable, etc. and doesn't insert their own scripts into my webpages
freehostia should work for a while I would think. You could also probably ask netham or albert if they can spare some space for you.
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Re: Making a webcomic: "dynamic hyperlinks"
« Reply #17 on: September 21, 2011, 06:44:49 pm »
Zymic is a little-heard-of, but very nice one in my experience... they also give you MySQL databases, and limited .htacess allowance,
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Re: Making a webcomic: "dynamic hyperlinks"
« Reply #18 on: September 21, 2011, 08:47:29 pm »
Ask Juju for awesome hosting.
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Re: Making a webcomic: "dynamic hyperlinks"
« Reply #19 on: September 21, 2011, 09:11:01 pm »
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Re: Making a webcomic: "dynamic hyperlinks"
« Reply #20 on: September 21, 2011, 11:30:56 pm »
Haha, well I'll wait until I get it working completely before I do anything...atm I'm just using a random free host to test out the php and stuff.

The xml isn't working, plus I realized it's probably not the best idea to load and parse a large xml file every time a page loads, so I think I'll go with what Eeems suggested instead. I can keep the many .txt files in another directory to avoid clutter...
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Re: Making a webcomic: "dynamic hyperlinks"
« Reply #21 on: September 22, 2011, 02:14:21 am »
Why not using MySQL?
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Re: Making a webcomic: "dynamic hyperlinks"
« Reply #22 on: September 22, 2011, 02:44:48 am »
I used to use walrus, (http://walrus.newbsoft.com/), then completely change the layout to whatever else.
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Re: Making a webcomic: "dynamic hyperlinks"
« Reply #23 on: September 22, 2011, 03:16:10 am »
Quote from: Juju on September 22, 2011, 02:14:21 am
Why not using MySQL?
Lets start him off slow ok :P Adding MySQL to the mix when he barely knows PHP isn't a good idea yet.
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Re: Making a webcomic: "dynamic hyperlinks"
« Reply #24 on: September 22, 2011, 01:24:07 pm »
I like x10, ive been using them for a good few years.  or just beg juju.  thats normally pretty good too :P If you want, i can show you a stripped down version of Frameless Comic to show you an example of how to store everything in a mysql db and some other features =)

EDIT:  Ssomehow i guess i didnt refresh the page.  somehow.  There needs to be a notifier for that too :P Also Eeems, idk, I learned php and mysql at the same time, it wasnt bad, only downsied is that i basically think of mysql as an extensioin of php, not its own thing XD
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Re: Making a webcomic: "dynamic hyperlinks"
« Reply #25 on: September 22, 2011, 08:24:45 pm »
I'd like to learn the best and most efficient way to do things haha. I don't mind adding in MySQL, I think I've got a handle on PHP.

I tried looking up MySQL and I got a lot of info on how to create and manipulate data tables; but I'm really looking for just a way to access a data table? How can you do that?
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Re: Making a webcomic: "dynamic hyperlinks"
« Reply #26 on: September 22, 2011, 09:20:33 pm »
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_intro.asp
That's where I went to learn the initial stuff. I then just googled to find answers to whatever I needed.

This is what you probably want specifically though: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_select.asp
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Re: Making a webcomic: "dynamic hyperlinks"
« Reply #27 on: September 22, 2011, 10:13:18 pm »
I ended up using w3 to figure it out before I saw your post O_o thanks though ahaha.

Anyway, looks like I've got everything done :D Titles, alts, and tags all get fetched out of a mySQL using $cur, there's also a $max which helps the navigation buttons work perfectly. Thanks guys!

Now to wrap up the layout and CSS...
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Re: Making a webcomic: "dynamic hyperlinks"
« Reply #28 on: September 23, 2011, 03:24:36 am »
Just a note, be sure to filter $cur, so that SQL and code injections aren't possible ;)
Since $cur should be a number, using intval() on it should be fine :)
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Re: Making a webcomic: "dynamic hyperlinks"
« Reply #29 on: September 24, 2011, 03:30:26 pm »
We're live :D

Now I'm wondering if it's a good idea to change to individual pages (no php/mysql) to deal with navigation, just for cleanliness and search visibility :* Since adding a new comic entails going to the file manager to upload a new file and change the value of $max AND then going into mySQL to enter the title/alt text I feel like it's pretty much the same amount of work either way...

Oh, and is there a way to strip the .html off the end of the url of an hmtl file (in the address bar)
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