Table

[Streamstrider]

Alrighty, so here's one I thought would be very useful, or some version of it. Don't even know if it's possible, but that's why I'm coming to you, right?

The idea is to have a table which would have a section at the bottom where users could post the "Thread Name", a "Link" to the thread, and the "Thread Starter". Submitting this information would place it in the table, at the top of the list, with the "Thread Name" linking to the page the link referred to, and the "Thread Starter" name to the side in brackets (ex. [Thread Starter: Bob]).

The table could show the last ten submissions and hide the rest. I don't know if you could add a function that would remove items after a certain time period, but if not, maybe older submissions could be manually removed in-code, or better yet, have an 'x' beside each link that the admin could see and use to remove old entries. (A link below the last entry in the table could state "Show Older Entries" or something to that effect, and if clicked on, could perhaps expand the table to show ten more entries, and so on and so forth.)

Again, dunno if it's possible, but I could see it being quite useful.

[Wormopolis]

you are basically talking about a shoutbox, but with the restriction that they only ever post links to threads?[MÜD:worried]

[Streamstrider]

Essentially, I guess that's what I'm thinking, only with the specified format rather than the general c-box thing. It's not a chat widget or anything. XD

[Streamstrider]

Bump!

[Wormopolis]

the problem lies in storage. where would you store what they type in? unless its in a post somewhere. you rely on external storage. codes that utilize external storage have to processed via PHP or python or similar. Im not smart enough to program in those languages. you would also need somewhere to HOST the data storage.

[Streamstrider]

The submitted information could just be submitted into the table, in whichever header or footer the table exists. If it would be simpler, I can manually remove old submissions from the table when I wish to. Does that help, or did I completely miss the point? XD

[Wormopolis]

maybe I misunderstood. I thought you wanted members to be able to add into the list?

[Streamstrider]

I was hoping to have something that would allow members to submit data into the table, such as a Link, the title of the Thread, and the thread Creator. The data would just remain in the table until I removed it.

[Wormopolis]

so I understood correctly. you would need a place to store data. the closest you can come to that without using external storage, would be to use a thread.

[Streamstrider]

So the information CAN'T be stored in the table itself? (just trying to make sure I myself understand)

[Wormopolis]

not unless you want to give every member access to headers and footers in order to store new data in the h/f

[Streamstrider]

I see. How does storing in a thread work?

[Wormopolis]

they make a post and it gets turned into one box.. similar to how my automerge code works. but thinking about it.. that might not work unless you were diligent enough to delete the first post everytime someone got it past 10 posts in the thread.

[Streamstrider]

True. I think we can put this on hold for now. Thanks for the help, Wormo!