TODAY Feature, Catchall.

This is the catchall thread for the development status of the today feature.
As it stands right now, it shows all posts created in one day. As soon as I post this message, it will be displayed as the first one.
The formatting is still screwy, it dont show quotes, images and such. Trying to figure that out.
It only shows the first 20 because that is what the entire forum is based upon. 20 posts and a new page is created. I can up this to 30, 40, 5000. Whatever you guys want. But if you are on a slower connection and like to browse to different threads than it's going to take a very long time to do so....

[Scrounger]

This is the catchall thread for the development status of the today feature.
As it stands right now, it shows all posts created in one day. As soon as I post this message, it will be displayed as the first one.
The formatting is still screwy, it dont show quotes, images and such. Trying to figure that out.
It only shows the first 20 because that is what the entire forum is based upon. 20 posts and a new page is created. I can up this to 30, 40, 5000. Whatever you guys want. But if you are on a slower connection and like to browse to different threads than it's going to take a very long time to do so....
I imagine there'd have to be alink (URL) put in for every image or quote.

It actually has to do with loading the BB code (bulletin Board) code in the code itself, so it uses that. Kinda screwy, but it will be figured out in due time..

[grumble]

I believe the individual posts are stored in memory cache, aren't they? If so, then only the first load of the user's session would be slow to load. Thus, a larger page size (like 30, 40, or more posts) would only take a long time to load the first time of the session, and would load more quickly on subsequent reloads. And, if the page is chronological with the latest post on top, the entire page won't need to be loaded, the user can just hit "Stop" when the load gets to the last post he read.

So, I vote for about 40 posts per page.

I'd also like to see the charactor limit increased for the "search" and "today" pages. I've learned to hate the "..." just when a post gets interesting! <G>

The individual posts are not stored in system cache. Every time you open a page, you make a "call" to the database of information making requests. Those requests come back with the information that you requested and displays it. This is for every page, the only items that would get stored in your TEMP files would be pictures.

[grumble]

OK. Thanks for your efforts. I won't make any more comments. Whatever you decide is fine with me.

No please post comments, we are all learning :D

The only thing is, I don't know if this forum software is what we are going to be using by next week (I got some nice software picked out) and so I don't want to get it all setup and we blow it all way you know what I mean?

(P.S. If we do change to different software all posts created and all your user information will be transfered, so don't worry about that [smilie=w: )

[StarMetal]

GunLoad Master

If you are talking about TEMP file in Microsoft Windows, it stored more then just picture files. Take a look. If running Windows XP or 2000 go to Documetns and Setting/ whatever name your pc is under/Local Setting/TEMP files. Also in that same area are Temperorary Internet file. If you're talking about something entirely different, the I apologize.

P.S. I think Local Setting may only appear if you have your file options set to show all files including hidden ones.

Joe

When you are dealing with these forums, new items are created on each page view, this is why when you go to a forum and see nothing new, browse around a little more, go back to that same forum and see a new post there. It has to update because of this. If you look in your temporary files you will see probably hundreds of files from the site, but those are overridden. These pages have to refresh to show new posts, because forums are constantly changing. This is sometimes why people are having pages taking a while to load.