pcplantdb

[Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>]

Richard Morris writes:
 > <snipped me>
 >
 > Congratulations, and well done for your honesty. I just hope we/I am up 
 > for the job. Hand holding is a thing we all need from time to time.
 > 
 > I'm wondering if we need a different communication mechanism. Things 
 > might work easier if we try instant messaging or phone. This might allow 
 >   a little bit more two way communication. (At college today one of the 
 > lectures has been experimenting with attaching sound files to emails, it 
 > seemed to be quite good).
 > 
 > As to tasks I see the first task has to be implementing user login.
 > For this we need:
 >      login name, password
 >      other contact details, email, phone no, website, address
 > 
 > We can do this simply just by standard http GET/POST and a cookie system 
 > to allow persistance. A more secure mechanism would be nice but not 
 > essential at this stage.

Cookies are already implemented in the latest release, which is not
the current live version on ibiblio.

 > When we have done that, a "hello world" with login program is the next 
 > step. Aim here is to have a simple micky mouse DB. Maybe just a simple 
 > plant record with an id for a plant and free text comments after that.
 > Allow:
 >      registered user to creat new plant
 >      any users to attach comment at end of record.
 > 
 > Once this is working we can then move onto intergrating with main DB, 
 > but that for next week ;-)
 > 
 > 
 > OK how that, is this what your looking for? Too much or too little detail?

Well I actually have all of the above understood as my immediate tasks
carried over from last year even.  I think what I'm asking for at the
moment is more of an interest in why I'm not actually getting anything
done and encouragement to do so.  Later on I think I would like more
specfic direction as well as continued progress checkins.

 > If chad or anyone else waht to ring me I'm on +44 1208872963. Normally 
 > available 6pm-12pm GMT.
 > 
 > Rich

I actually made a little motion toward setting put
dev.permaculture.info on ibiblio.  Should resolve correctly in about
24 hours or so.