New Day, New Project

Ok, so it has been like FOREVER since I updated this thing…life is just so darn busy. I am finishing up all my outstanding projects for my Uncle’s company Thursday. I will be so very glad to be done! But crazy little old me doesn’t know how to take a break so I am jumping right into the next one s_s

This will be an awesome opportunity for me and hopefully it will go much better than my last side job. <_< Basically I love web design and am really big into starting to work in the field. My passion at the moment is Anime…put the two together and bam! Happiness! Now don’t get me wrong I don’t have the time to run a site…but I have this site I have been on forever and just talked the owner into allowing me the opportunity to try and upgrade the gallery! Ding Ding Ding! Jackpot! …However not all is perfect in wonderland. This is a big undertaking and there are very serious issues to over come.

The site uses a “bought” package for the “forum” and a separate “bought” package for the gallery. The gallery system pulls from the forum one and then processes the updated information back to the forum (for select cases).

To achieve the results I want out of the gallery I will have to use the gallery package as a reference and basically remake it without copyright infringing upon or voiding the current gallery system…that isn’t too bad or hard…but here is where things get icky.

For the new system to work with my “perfect” vision…I will need to fully integrate it into the forum system. Where this is an issue is in 2 things. First do we void our warranty, support or copyright infringe upon the forum system if we mod it? Second when we go to upgrade the forum to the latest version…will our gallery still work :/

The answer to the first one is no, they fully support modding of their product as long as you are stating it is a “plug-in” and not claiming the board as your own work. Ok not much of an issue.

The second is maybe, if they change major functions, database structures or the upgrade refreshes (over writes the old one) the code for the forum then we have to reapply all the changes for the gallery to still function.

That would require loads of work each time we upgrade and the owner is going to want to upgrade! The alternative would be to custom write the forum as well and well lets just say that isn’t an option…at all.

On to blurred vision, lol.

Basically I write the gallery to be a separate system much like it is now…I just have to write the gallery pages and tables to calculate much of the same information as the forum already has and then send updates to the gallery database…leaving as much as possible in the gallery system…this makes things a bit harder but it will still work. I will still need to update the main forum tables but not have to touch the code behind the pages.

I dunno, we will see how it goes… till then more free falling now the rabbit hole.