Loudle - Digg Like Page Submitter

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Release Name: Alpha 4.2

Notes: Loudle - Alpha 4 Release This is an alpha release. As such, if you don't have a firm grasp of PHP and MySQL this release IS NOT for you. I am seeking SKILLED alpha testers (skilled as in: "you know PHP and MySQL") to get this thing goin. If you are interested leave me a message in the forum. The "things still to do" list is in the changelog if you want to know what my next priorities are. Loudle is now relatively complete in that it now functions. There are some things that need to be done to improve it before I'll be comfortable letting this go into a full Beta release, but it isn't broken and it is reasonably secure. Once again, if you are installing this on your site, let me know (via www.loudle.org) and I will provide significant help.

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Changes: CHANGE LOG Alpha 1 - Initial Release Alpha 1.1 - Fixed bug in login screen that prevented painting - added login link to index.php if not already logged in; if logged in added "Welcome <username>" Alpha 2 - Added Ability to add comments. - Modified database so that voting was its own table - Added Admin page (admin.php), currently just manages topics and topic groups - Added ability to filter by keywords and by topics - modularized the code to allow for topics and user name to be put in at any location. Alpha 3 I made fixes/enhancements/changes to literally every single file in the release Alpha 4 - Changes to index.php to allow for AJAX based control of voting and display of search results - Added two javascript files. One from http://prototype.conio.net/ and another from http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/ajax_source.asp (which I modified somewhat) - Fixed a bug in the comments.php script - Added RSS support Alpha 4.1 - Made a fix to index.php so the search function works - Made a change to index.php expanding out the size of the article boxes to 95% instead of the fixed 300 that it previously was - Made a change to rss.php so that the url refrences now go through Loudle instead of directly to the page. Alpha 4.2 - Improved the basic loudle template - Minor tweaks to index.php show_topics.php, and the files that make up the search function to improve CSS support STILL TO DO - I have yet to code the "big difference" that will separate Loudle from Digg and Reddit. This likely won't be implemented until the first week of next year. - Drop the tables and use CSS type positioning. For that matter the dynamically output code needs to better support CSS in general - Create a couple of Loudle templates for use by other downloaders - Improve the administrative capabilities - Allow for the database to have something prepended to the table names to make installation in a multiple software environment less problematic - Error handling needs to be implemented - Better coding for security to prevent hackers - Pulling the ranking algorithm code into its own section to allow for easier changing - Implementing the capture of IP addresses for each log in to improve the ranking algorithm and to implement code to prevent "gaming" of the system.