How did touchds create the site?

[ElementK]

Hey touch!
I sent you an email, but I'm posting here in case anyone else knows. How did you make your site so impressively dynamic? It looks like everything is driven from a database. I was trying to make a game site, but creating each individual game page took eternitites. Can you hewlp me? Can anyone help me? How do you do this?

[ElementK]

What is post-nuke? How do I use it?

[Skyline]

I havn't got a clue....about either of the questions.

[Karl]

Postnuke is the forum, withc you can download for free and put on your site..
But don't create a forum if no one wants to register..

http://www.pnphpbb.com/modules.php?o...amp;file=index

[ElementK]

So what did you guys use to create the database-driven site?

[17R3W]

http://www.southshorebroadcastinginc.ca/ <-- my own site (well, i'm part of very small team) works with a database, although this site is much nicer looking. A better interation will be up sometime soon, I'm goning to do lots of work this week after exams are finished.

If you pro-cede to the contact page you can see the power of a database, as pages can be dynamically generated. Even the static pages are pulled down from the info.php page which keeps the pages looking uniform because all the information is displayed inside of the same page.

Look into PHP, XML, MySql, and CSS; you'd be surprised how easily you can make a large website without coding lots of html. For you it sounds like you could use a table (perhaps a few) and simply apply a template of somekind to each of the games..

With the contacts page, i pull out a row from the table in the data base, run through a loop and make the table that you see on the page, and do this automatically for all the selected contacts.

If you don't need to dynamically generate the pages, XML can do a whole lot..

<game>
<title>Super Mario 64 DS</title>
<publisher>Nintendo</publisher>
<release_date>Nov 21st/2004</release_date>
<score>10!</score>
<pic>mario1.jpg</pic>
<desc>An updated version of the orginal, with better graphics, more levels, and a new multiplayer mode</desc>
<author>me</author>
</game>

then apply an CSS or xslt to that, and bang you've got a nice uniform webpage..

also my counter works via the database too...

[Skyline]

:?

[chuddy_2001uk]

:shock: all very confusing. The most ive experienced is Yahoo! geocities.

[Skyline]

yeah same here lol :lol:

[chuddy_2001uk]

How did you guys learn about all of this crazy talk?!