jsolomon

OK OK, sweet start. Thanks for the help so far. As far as I see it, here are the first few problems I have to solve and some first guesses to solutions: 1. Tracking the user's mouse movements around the page - Can I do this with Javascript? 2. Create some way to accept text when the user clicks - No idea...Can't do this with regular forms, can I? 3. Save the text (or img?) in a DB with positional info - PHP/MySQL, easy stuff. 4. Load the new text entries - PHP/MySQL 5. Position the entries - CSS? What's the best way to dynamically layout a page like this? I'll deal with the dragging/zooming thing later - it seems way too hard. So, how can I deal with each of these problemos? What languages, what tools, what strategies do you suggest? Thanks!

Hey everyone, I am looking into this project as a learning experience and in the hope of building something interesting. I know very little about web design, though have limited experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP (very limited). My idea: The webpage is a blank, white, infinite canvas. Users can navigate through the canvas via click/drag and zooming. Users can click anywhere on the canvas and type to add text. A submit button will appear to confirm their entry. Every user can see all entries. Essentially this would be an interesting way to collect and display human thoughts/experiences. My understanding: As far as I can tell, I would need PHP/MySQL to capture and store the text entries. I would need CSS to lay them out properly, and I would need a shit load of Javascript/AJAX to provide the camera controls. Questions: This post is my first effort and identifying what exactly this would take. How would you all structure a website like this? What languages would I need to learn, what resources could I turn to, etc? Any advice is highly appreciated. Thanks, Jake

I suppose "spam" was the wrong word to use. I'm not really dealing with a forum...and its not really comments...and so far I'm not getting "spam." I suppose I'll deal with that when I get there. My issue is that each submission is supposed to be a secret (see http://www.jssolomon.com/secretstest.php). Most are, some aren't. Some are attacks, some are jibberish. Those are the ones I want to be able to filter, and I want users to do it instead of me . Sooo.........Look over my code for me?

Hello, I have a website where users submit anonymous messages, which are automatically posted publically on a rolling list. I am trying to implement a community flagging/voting system so users can eliminate spam messages themselves. I would like a flag icon to pop up next to each submission, and for entries to be deleted from the database (or at least not displayed) after 3 user flags. Here's what I have so far: First, as I loop through all of the past entries and echo them onto the page, I also echo a form for each entry: while(($row2=mysql_fetch_array($result2, MYSQL_ASSOC)) and ($row=mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC))) { echo "<p>", htmlspecialchars($row['secret']), "<hr></p>"; //This is the entry echo "<div ID='flag'><form name='spam' method='post'><input type='submit' name='", $row2['time'], "' value='Flag' /></form></div>"; // This is the form for each entry } Every form has the same name (spam), and each form has a single input whose name is the time value of when the entry was first submitted. I just used this to create a unique form input for each entry. This part works fine. Then when someone clicks on the submit for a given entry, it is supposed to add 1 to the "spam" column of the given row. Here is my code: if(isset($_POST[$row2['time']])) { $query3 = "SELECT spam FROM secret WHERE time = {$row2['time']}"; $result3 = mysql_query($query3); $new = $result3++; $update = "Update secret SET spam=$new"; mysql_query($update); } This isn't working properly. When I click one of the submit buttons, the spam column does not increment for any of the rows. I think this is wrong: (isset($_POST[$row2['time']])). I'm really new to PHP and I know my coding is pretty sloppy, but I would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.