TF-Media is BACK

[Ilovebe]

I don't see signing up as necessarily a bad thing. I used to hate the Yahoo Groups that required approval of the owner before you could view anything. I understand it was to keep spambots out, but it was annoying.

[geneticks]

I wonder if doc's lab recent and current DB issue (hosted on tf-media0 failure with lots of MySQL errors) is related to tf-media coming up.
Some conflict in the versions/issue with the two DBs stepping on each other perhaps?
http://www.thelabforum.com/forum/vie...c53bf&start=30

[Drachen]

Whoa. Just read that error message. The MySQL username and password are written in clear text for everyone that sees that error message! Good job, PHP.

[TFGuy]

The Doc's Lab error has been fixed. It was a hosting problem.

I have no idea how their site is coded, and I'm not in control of whatever they're doing. If it was me, that username and password wouldn't have been printed, ever. :P

[Drachen]

Friends don't let friends use PHP. Ever.

[tanjinyi]

I've saved a copy of the XML version of the stories (that aren't CYOT), and I've been placing them into separate word documents in my free time, and yes it took quite a bit of effort. I can send them to you if you want (it's in my dropbox anyways). I'm not entirely sure it's the full collection though, all I know is i started with around 100+ thousand lines to clear, and now I have around 20 thousand lines left.
The layout of the site is simplistic and elegant, I find that it's a really well made site with nice features. Thanks TFGuy.

Here's the link to the dropbox folder with the stories that I've managed to preserve... at least.

Dropbox folder

[The_Nameless_One]

Originally Posted by Drachen

Friends don't let friends use PHP. Ever.

Not really php's fault. Moreso bad coding.
Does make me curious who's running the tech-side of doc's lab nowadays.

[Drachen]

Originally Posted by The_Nameless_One

Not really php's fault. Moreso bad coding.
Does make me curious who's running the tech-side of doc's lab nowadays.

It's really a PDO issue, and PDO ships as part of PHP. Yes, error messages should not be turned on in a production environment and there should ideally be a try/catch statement wrapping the call, but things like passwords should never be echoed to output for any reason, even for debugging purposes. I don't know another data access product or ORM that does anything that catastrophically derpy when it dies.

[Ironhorse]

Originally Posted by TFGuy

The new site is incompatible with the old one, a migration of all the content was literally (technically) impossible without a tremendous amount of hours put in. It's the sad, sad truth.

You'll probably also notice the absence of a gallery as of right now - that was actually part of the reason the old site went offline, the popularity combined with the inefficient gallery led to the site being really slow. So, this time around, I want to make sure I do it right, so I'm taking my time designing and thinking about how I want the gallery to work from a technical standpoint. It'll be added eventually, it's just not there now.

I understand, it was more a lament of the loss of content then anything else. I had no illusions that you would bring everything back as if it were all a bad dream.

[TFGuy]

In case anyone's curious, the gallery has just been re-opened. Captions and Art are now available to be posted and viewed on the site.

[DarkMWE]

Originally Posted by The_Nameless_One

Not really php's fault. Moreso bad coding.
Does make me curious who's running the tech-side of doc's lab nowadays.

Doc is. He's in charge of the whole ball of wax, and has been since I gave him back the keys a few years ago.