New Features Added, Old Features Broken
It's been a while since my last post, but I've been a busy bunny: adding new features and repairing the old ones I'd broken whilst adding the new stuff.
As none of you will remember from my post about implementing my RSS 2.0 feed generator, I was having a bit of trouble deciding on what part of my site I should build next. I would have liked to have added an Atom Feed feature (and still very much want to), but I decided it'll have to wait. Instead, I decided to go for adding the mechanism for allowing people to register as a new user. It works, but you still need to fish out your confirmation e-mail from your spam/trash folder because I've yet to properly figure out how to configure my mail server.
Just being able to register isn't much fun, though, so I then set about adding the functionality for users that are logged in to add comments. I guess at the moment the odds of anyone even finding this place, let alone bothering to register and then bothering to leave a comment, are phenomenally low, but at least the option's there for anyone that wants to share the love.
I was pleased to see the comments feature working after struggling to get the time to do it. I always love seeing my creations come to life, but the fun was unfortunately short-lived. I had forgotten that whilst adding the comments system I had made a few changes to my database structure and the PHP that interacts with it. The outcome being that whenever I tried to log in to add another post my user account got locked and that, even if I could log in, the blog entry admin panel was broken. So I had to spend a while fixing everything before I could add any new entries.
Oh well. Onwards and upwards...
Well the registrations process was working, but not any more. It looks like it's going to be broken for a few days whilst I fix something. I asked my hosting provider if they'd give me a hand with configuring the program that sends the registration confirmation email. So they uninstalled it, installed something that I don't want in its place and left me the instruction manual to the program they uninstalled. I get the feeling we might have had a bit of a translation problem there.
Well whatever the case, I'm now trying to put everything back the way it was and then set up the program I wanted in the first place. As you might imagine, I'm just gonna' try to do this by myself this time. So as a consequence, it might be a few days before anyone can register as a new user (Not that there's much of a demand to register).
Wish me luck folks.
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