Stickied, because I want help, dammit. ;)

Oh, most recently uploaded files, most popular files, newest articles/most popular (when articles are done...), most active threads. You know.

Is there a way to do that via PHP? I am vaugly familiar with what you describe, which is to say I just listened to you say it and it made an alien kind of sense to me.

Success! Anyone who wants to see me parade my disregard for conventional usages can check out here:

Proof of Concept : Session Variables For Dynamic Content

So yeah. Grue, feel free to use the idea, or not, as you see fit. If you need any more explanation because I'm obscure and illogical, then let me know.

And hopefully I've provided useful advice and not misunderstood the problem entirely. :D

Edit: Of course, this solution does assume that there isn't other session stuff going on. I'm not sure if this is a good assumption or not.

Quote:Originally posted by mcgrue

The verge-rpg documentation system has been going on so long because I'm basically making it so it can create any number of documnets (for libraries, utilities, games... whoever wants to make some docs) in the style of the php.net documentation. I'm my not-so-humble-opinion that the php.net docs are the best docs ever.That's sounds very cool. The php.net docs are the best docs ever. It's like their designers actually wanted you to find information. That sort of thing doesn't seem to be what most documentationists do now-a-days.

Like using VERGE to make a sidescroller, or a FPS? ;)I think VERGE is becoming more and more like an awesome graphics/sound/input library than an RPG engine. It's like DirectX only not crappy!

Anyways, to answer a later question as well, yes I'm using sessions, hence the login. However, my understanding of sessions is weak and infirm, being something I always gloss over as 'boring'. Are there different kinds of sessions?Well, sort of. There are server-side sessions, and client-side cookies (I have a non-webteam coworker that giggles every time we mention cookies). I figured you used the sessions, because it's silly to put things like login information in a client-side cookie. It doesn't take me being much of a "hacker" to open up my cookies directory, load up notepad, and then change my username to McGrue. ^^

So, my idea is probably not best, as it would conflict with your current session (there are enough problems with people logging out by accident now). I also discovered this morning that my proof-of-concept managed to expire over night and the data disappeared. I can think of workarounds for both of these, but you start coming up with workarounds so you can use something in a way you shouldn't be, it's a good indication that it's time to stop trying.

There must be some library somewhere that does what you need.

Quote:Originally posted by MercAngel

This may be too late, if you check www.phpBB.com and down the forum software i think the admin part for the software has what you need that code usees the DB put you may come up with some way to do it with out the DB.

phpBB has a smarter way to deal with it than I do. It uses false html codes that use [] instead of <>. However, I prefer actaul tags because I'm oldschool. So instead of stripping everything and only accepting custom glyphs, I need an intelligent stripper. Which would, properly, require a full DOM parser to the best of my knowledge.

Man, I suck.

Quote:Originally posted by mcgrue

I need an intelligent stripper.
You have the most odd requests.

I've noticed the phenomena and I guessed I had such a function when I read my sexy title. I just had to write something obvious in it, because I didn't want to see my misfortunate attempt at a post. Also, I don't like the edit messages (which normally on forums only pop up if someone has replied to the post, else it's free to be editted without a notice *hint hint*) so I deleted and reposted.

There are reasons for everything, but hey, if you don't want to have it perfect, I'll respect your wishes of MEDIOCRITY. ;)

Mythril, that's the gist of what I wanted to do, but I was concerned about some concurrency issues etc.