"If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." -Toni Morrison
Just letting the world know that this project is still alive, but I've been very busy lately and so have been unable to get much time to devote to this project. I've been distracted both by school work and a couple other projects that I have decided have higher priority right now.
Plus, I've been learning more about the area of library science, and I have learned I have a lot to learn, so I'll be working on learning more. And yes, that had way too many uses of the word "learning" in it.
So, not much content here, just a brief message lest someone thinks this project fell off the face of the Earth before it really got started.
So, the feature I'm currently working on is user management. Although the project is currently meant as a fairly informal thing, I feel that creating a secure system should always be a priority, particularly when there are avenues of access that are potentially open to other people. In this case, this project is meant to be run as a web page and logged into, so if it is published on an open port, if it's not secured, there is an inherent security risk in leaving it insecure.
I have decided to, err... borrow the user management functionality from phpBB. It's taking some time as I go through and read the code to determine what's necessary and what's not. In fact, I'll probably ultimately borrow a few more parts from their project. But for now, I'm sort of just ripping out the user parts.
Anyhow, progress is coming along fairly nicely, but it'll still take a bit more before the user management is integrated. Currently, the user can now again log in, but past that... well, that's it.
So, yay, this is my first note! Of course, it does come with a purpose: letting you know that development is still underway.
The first release, about a week ago, was meant entirely just to get something out the door. Right now, though, I'm reworking a lot of the basic infrastructure of the project, mainly regarding user management for now. The next release will probably have a more fully developed user management system, will still be ugly and probably buggy everywhere else.
"If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." -Toni Morrison