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[Saint_Michael]

Last couple of weeks I been having this idea for another volunteer xisto service. We take php scripts from across the net, from tutorial sites, download sites and what not and test them out to see if they actually work.

Then give them a rating of 1-5 1 being the script don't work and 5 being the script works like it supposed to. If they do work we provide a live demo to it.

Now The set up would go like this

if the script runs into problems we would post the problem through a news/comment system (like cutenews) and we would provided the neccessary files for others to take a crack at it and if they solve the problem we of course would test it out to make sure and if it does work we change the rating and of course give to the person/s for solving it.

If it does work we have a link to a demo version of what it susposed and of course provide a tutorial on how to set it up.

Any thoughts, suggestions, people want to join in this little project?

no time frame yet, watign on the responses on this site and at astahost as well.

of course I'm not good with names for websites but toss some name suggestions as well.

[jlhaslip]

The name is easy:

phptrap.com

[Saint_Michael]

http://saint-michael.trap17.com/

right now all it has is web stats scripts running and cute news.

What I did was book mark the scripts that I used and once I set hte rating system up then I use one of them to set up how to code and rate it as well.

I did see a ratings system but I have to find out if it will work through cute news because I didn't bother trying a different news script. Plus it solved the access to the site at a point. When people are ready to upload a script that they went through, they just copy and past the info and bam done.

Can anyone verify that putting a php include in a cute news article will run properly?

Also recommend a good rating script as well that can be used for this site.

[rvalkass]

Yeah, this is a great idea SM, and I would certainly like to be a part of it. I like mucking around with PHP scripts and seeing if they will ever work, as most don't install exactly right first time. At the moment I know nothing about CuteNews, so I can't help you there, but good luck with the site.

[AlternativeNick]

well hell, if you get that working nice, ill definately be interested in it xD and we could like, u know, affiliate and stuff

[ghostrider]

I would gladly affiliate your site and support it. It sounds like a great idea.

[Johnny]

*thumbs up*

[jlhaslip]

By the way, I would kick-in some hours, too.

By the way: one problem that I foresee is having the ?correct? version of php available.
Since there are several versions out there, ie: trap17 uses ver. 4.4.2, is there a way to have multiple versions on the server to test against?
Could we test them in a php4 and also a php5 version and report which versions worked and which ones don't?

[Zero Ziat]

We can leave that to OpaQue.

But well, your idea just rocks, period.

*Thumbs and feet up*.

[FLaKes]

I would also be interested, because I think it really is a good Idea. Right now Im just getting started with php. All thanks to that php in pictures book that was shared about a couple of months ago here. I really think an idea like that would really help some of us out here in trap17.