Thursday, March 5, 2009
Book Database
As you may have noted over the past couple months, I’ve been writing a fair amount of php code. Although this was partially to learn a new language, it was also so I could make my book database do what I wanted.
Although I’m not entirely there, I’m getting close.
Yes, a lot of work I did was on the back end, that you can’t see. Too bad. But I’ve also done so work on the front end, especially implementing some of the stuff I did on the back end.
So what I’m asking is for you to go poke around the database, and see if you have any suggestions for making it better. I’m considering making an author search that only brings up names, instead of every book written by every author with a similar name, but I’m not sure if that’d be useful.
Please note: not all books have been linked to their reviews, but many have, so if there’s a book lacking a review, there’s a 50% chances I haven’t read that book. Additionally, about 25% of author pages link to pages elsewhere on my site. The other 75% jump back to the current page. I’m trying to figure out how to fix this. And the status is available for books I’ve gotten rid of. I’ll get to that bit later as well.
So please, go visit my book database, poke around, and tell me how I could make improvements.
And while you’re there, if you think there’s an author or book I should own or should have read, feel free to let me know.