1. If I edit some article or wrote new one and then hit Alt+X (or another kind of exit action) it just exits without asking me to save as a draft. IMHO, there must be a question for user: a) save as a draft, b) post immediately this one, c) post immediately all edited, d) exit without saving ?

2. There is something strange in menus drawing: some accel codes overwrites menu names e.g. "Help on ThingamyCtrl+F1", "Edit\Tags\URShift+Ctrl+L", "Edit\Tags\UnderlinCtrl+U" ?

...at new address: http://thingamy.decard.net.

http://thingamy.decard.net/client/ - this directory contains scripts for the client. Currently following scripts are available:

getarticle.php?id=article_id - displays given article, or simple "0" (zero) if it cannot find given article. The article has the following format:

table articles (
id int not NULL primary key auto_increment,
title varchar(128) not NULL,
cat int not NULL,
authid int not NULL,
body text not NULL
);

getarticle.php returns all those fields separated by tab character. Body can contain tabs, but it is always a last field so that should be no problem.

getcat.php - returns all categories, just as we discussed before. You can also use getcat.php?parentid=XX, to get only categories under given parent category.

getlist.php - lists all article ID's, separated by tabs. You can also use getlist.php?catid=XX - to retrive only articles from given category.

On website itself, I implemented basci bbcode parsing (just a few tags now), and implandted Tommy's FASM syntax highlighter.

regards

2 JohnFound

1. This http://sulaiman.netadvant.com/Reitp.rar is from PSDK. There is example how to insert objects in RichEdit using OLE. But, IMO, this is a too complex way for Thingamy.

2. Do you look this http://www.kakeeware.com/i_kb.php. This browser uses Explorer OLE Control or Mozilla ActiveX. Freeware (+ MASM sources freely available). And there http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm is Mozilla ActiveX control.

If it will help you in some way...

POST http://thingamy.decard.net/client/post.php HTTP/1.1<CRLF>
<CRLF>
CatID<TAB>Author<TAB>title<TAB>Body
    

POST http://thingamy.decard.net/client/post.php HTTP/1.1<CRLF>
<CRLF>
catid=CATID&autor=AUTHOR&title=TITLE&body=BODY<CRLF>
    

Can you handle such request in PHP (I am not so good in PHP...) or it is better to make URL encoding of the fields and to send them like web browsers: (...)

<p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<br />
Request header field is missing ':' separator.<br />

Where AUTHOR, TITLE and BODY are URL like encoded - with %20 for spaces for example?

Also, I am not sure about the authors. How we have to handle them? Do you think we have to use some registration or simply assign unique ID for every author string specified?

POST /thingamy/client/post.php HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 38

lang=en&content=dfdsfdsfdsfdsf&add=add    

I have done simple test (brutal ) to obtain information that browser really sends with POST method. To make apache accept POST request, you need to send at least this:

Code:

POST /thingamy/client/post.php HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 38

lang=en&content=dfdsfdsfdsfdsf&add=add    

When I insert new record to a table, I don't know its ID field, so I pass NULL (it has auto_increment flag). But after adding a record, I would like to know ID number that was just assigned to that record. How can I read it? (using PHP functions....).

select max(ID) from Articles;    

What about getting user's email?