Puppet Guardian Item Database

[Zorba, The Leaf]

We are very interested in this and would like to find a way to support your work. The Japanese players have created very rich and informative wikis that are useful to new and even experienced players.

[Dark Gryphon]

Hi The Leaf,

I'm currently working on this project quite hard, fitting it around college. It's going quite well - I've got a basic item description editor set up, and I'm now going to implement the "synthesis editor", along with a member registration system.

This time around, I'm opening up registration and editing to anyone. If spam gets to be a severe problem, I'll implement a pre-moderation system - but I don't like the idea of that until it's necessary.

I'm also thinking of implementing a forum - custom-written from scratch, to integrate fully with the rest of the website. If the Puppet Guardian devs get that badge feature implemented here, I could probably find a way to implement that for avatars ^^

The (quick) technical details - it's built around the absolutely amazing Textpattern CMS, along with a couple of custom plugins, mem_self_register, and rvm_privileged. And people say community websites can't be done with TXP

Cheers,
Dark Gryphon

EDIT: I've now implemented the synthesis editor! Now to implement an easy interface for users to create new items, edit them, and add synthesises to them. And a half-decent search box for items. *Then* comes mem_self_register.

[blackmintz]

Wow.. sounds really pro xD Full support!!

[Dark Gryphon]

Quick update:

• The synthesis editor now has autocomplete for entering items.
  
• There is a better search box for items, which also uses autocomplete.
  
• Self-registration should work, although I haven't tested it.
  
• I've added a *very simple* forum - I will extend it once the site is up and running. The forum will not be available at first, as I'm not happy with how it works.
  
• I'm redesigning the website, as the current (mostly default) design is way too cluttered, and the forum doesn't quite fit in.
  

All in all, I've managed to get most of the functionality I want, it's just making this all work together for the end user that I've got to do now.

Cheers,
Dark Gryphon

EDIT: Forum will not be up, and I've fixed a very obvious bug in the Synthesis Editor. Site will be up soon-ish, if not today, then tomorrow.