January releases + PHP developers!

rhu · Unread post by **rhu** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 1:44 pm

The bad news is that I've been swamped with work lately and have barely had a chance to log into the site, I just seen that there is now 1788 decks scanned! That can only be described as a "wtf!" feeling of satisfaction to know that this is growing steadily even in my absence

However, the good news is that all my hard work in my day job means that I'm long overdue a holiday. So expect lots of releases between the 20th of December and the 4th of January

I'm toying with the idea of starting again in Drupal 7, and opening it up as a git repository. I would love this to get to the point where other people can help with the feature requests so I'm not blocking development. Is this an idea anyone else would be up for helping out with?

ecNate · Unread post by **ecNate** » Mon Dec 01, 2014 9:13 pm

First, SUPER excited to see you'll be putting some time in on the site.

I had done PHP in the past and would have been willing to assist there time permitting, but not sure about Drupal. Work has been pretty busy lately and likely to get worse so learning something new might be too much. Don't worry though, I'll keep giving you ideas to keep you busy.

If you do open it up to others would there be a test site or would you have a trial period before people get too much power before they are proven? You've done a great job so far and I would also hate to have our work deleted because somebody forget a mundane detail and put a decimal point in the wrong spot.

I do think getting others to help out would be awesome though. I wonder if you could arrange it so it would be more flexible and work with other kinds of collections. At that point you would potentially have a larger pool of developers to help out. Rename the code source repository 'Collection Database' or something and then people could install it to track lighters, baseball cards, die cast cards, coins, whatever. The crowd sourced aspect is a pretty big deal and what's out there is either very customized and not flexible or just very basic. Few if any really offer the more social/crowd sourced aspect, although PCDB could use some clarity and improvements there eventually too.

rhu · Unread post by **rhu** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 8:33 am

I was googling around to see who is chatting about the PCDB and seen this: http://www.beebicycle.net/index.php/topic,516.0.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I think this looks epic

Future layout idea perhaps?

Unread post by **dazzleguts** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 12:20 pm

Looks very slick, I thought it was an ad at first.
Is that someone's personal DB for their collection Rhu?

rhu · Unread post by **rhu** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 1:18 pm

Not sure, I made a quick post on their forum to ask in my finest googled-translated-Spanish so would be interested to see

Definitely an idea for PCDB v2!

iDoctor · Unread post by **iDoctor** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 2:49 pm

Wow, it looks quite interesting! Let's wait for their answer.

nesuferit · Unread post by **nesuferit** » Fri Dec 05, 2014 3:45 pm

dazzleguts wrote:Looks very slick, I thought it was an ad at first.
Is that someone's personal DB for their collection Rhu?

Actually it's my playing card collection database project.
Saw rhu's post in BeeBicycle forum and now I find this post. [emoji1]
Happy you like, feel free to take any ideas you like for PCDB v2!

rhu · Unread post by **rhu** » Sat Dec 06, 2014 8:11 am

nesuferit wrote:
dazzleguts wrote:Looks very slick, I thought it was an ad at first.
Is that someone's personal DB for their collection Rhu?
Actually it's my playing card collection database project.
Saw rhu's post in BeeBicycle forum and now I find this post. [emoji1]
Happy you like, feel free to take any ideas you like for PCDB v2!

Thanks, I appreciate that

I would love to hear more about what you're doing, is it a personal or public database? Any web link for me to checkout?

Let me know if there's anything that I can do to help you out. We have a lot of data in the PCDB to share

nesuferit · Unread post by **nesuferit** » Sat Dec 06, 2014 5:54 pm

Well, I thinked of it for my personal use. I'm using FileMaker as I saw there's a FileMaker app for mobile phones so it would be great to have an extensive database on my pc and a lighter version for my cellphone.
I haven't had enough free time so far to have a look at how to link the main database to a mobile version. Hope coming holydays allow me to retake this task.

rhu · Unread post by **rhu** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 3:35 pm

As a continuation from this, I am now officially working on PCDB v2. Building it all from scratch properly this time. All your data will be migrated, don't worry!

The PCDB was just a few php files and a mysql database that grew rapidly out of control

Rather than reinvent the wheel every time I would like to add a new feature, I'm rebuilding it using Drupal. This will future proof the site, make it easier to maintain and easier to add new features.

Trading and communication between members is going to have a bigger focus on the new site.

So if you have a feature you would like to see, feel free to plant it in my mind just now while it's being built fresh

ecNate · Unread post by **ecNate** » Sat Jan 03, 2015 3:42 pm

Awesome, I'm still thinking about helping if you place in a repository. Again, I would suggest making it semi-open source and make it more of a universal collection solution which should help with future updates as well by getting more than just card people interested. You've got a great base for it!