Why not have a serverside script posting forum?

Well I believe that my subject said it all, Why not have a serverside script posting forum?

I think that It would be very helpfull, that way when certain scripts that have had problems that have been worked out in the ss forums could be posted for others.

That's certainly a possibility, but are there enough server side scripters to keep the category going? What are some examples of scripts that would be posted?

well I guess that their are a lot of different types of scripts,
I'm working on a list of scripts which I've set as goals so that when I've finished all of them I can say I know the language.

Getting client information
getting client information - through form
Redirection based on IP, Browser And Selection
Dropdown menu - Text file based and Database based
Counter - database and tex file based
News Ticker
HTML page creator
Shopping cart

Plus there are heaps of other types of scripts :

Ad Management, Calendars, Chat Scripts, Click Tracking,
Content Management, Counters, Database Tools, Date and Time, Discussion Boards, Email Systems, File Manipulation, Form Processors, Graphs and Charts, Guestbooks, Image Galleries, Link Indexing,Mailing List Managers,News Publishing,Polls and Voting,Quote Display,Redirection,Search Engines,SearchingSite Navigation,Site Recommendation,Tests and Quizzes,User Authentication, User Management, Web Traffic Analysis

How about having a Post A Script section where you could post not just JavaScript, but Server Side scripts as well. It would cut down on the maintenance and allow people to post Perl, PHP, JavaScript and other languages.

Originally posted by requestcode
How about having a Post A Script section where you could post not just JavaScript, but Server Side scripts as well. It would cut down on the maintenance and allow people to post Perl, PHP, JavaScript and other languages.

Not a bad idea. The guidelines for that forum could state that the particular type of the script posted be included in the subject line. For example, "JavaScript: capturing blah...", "PHP: detecting blah". Providing a method of organization so the language of the script would be clear right from the subject line of the thread.

Yeah, I like that Idea. And having all scripts in one area would be good, that way you could do a quick comparison between similar style scripts in different languages.

Yeah having them on one forum with the language in the title like suggested so then if someone wants to read all available PHP scripts they can search the forum for any threads with 'PHP' in the subject for example.

I certainly have some ASP scripts that people could find useful.

I suppose now is as good a time as any to bring it up. These forums are associated with freewarejava.com, javascriptkit.com, and dynamicdrive.com, all of which are about collecting tutorials and scripts. that's three places already for interesting and useful scripts. a fourth one here in the forums? i don't know. maybe all that's really needed is some reorganization amongst the sites and forums.

just a thought.

Originally posted by joh6nn
These forums are associated with freewarejava.com, javascriptkit.com, and dynamicdrive.com, all of which are about collecting tutorials and scripts. that's three places already...

or how about the scripts that are posted being submitted on all 3?

just an idea...

Originally posted by joh6nn
I suppose now is as good a time as any to bring it up. These forums are associated with freewarejava.com, javascriptkit.com, and dynamicdrive.com, all of which are about collecting tutorials and scripts. that's three places already for interesting and useful scripts. a fourth one here in the forums? i don't know. maybe all that's really needed is some reorganization amongst the sites and forums.

just a thought.

K, I'm not sure about this - but aren't all 3 of those sites dedicated to the Client side, rather than the Server Side???

Mhtml's original post was about posting Server side scripts.

Just my observations...

In response to George's comment - I do think there are enough Server Side Scripters to keep something like that going...

~Quack

well, they are and they aren't. freewarejava is about java, and you could argue that java is clientside, and you can argue that it's server side. then, there's the .htaccess tutorial at the javascript kit. and, imo, if we're gonna mix them all together here in the forum, then why not just mix them all together on the sites, which are already set up to house scripts?

dunno. maybe i'm just weird.

Is there any chance of this happening? I mean as someone capable of writing a script but nowhere near as knowledgeable as fp, spooky etc I'd love to see what comes up, there's no better way to learn than checking out other peoples work.

i think that mhtml idea was pretty good. but about DD and JSK the thing is that the scripts will never be changed or fixed (unless the author makes a V2 but that isnt very likley) so if they were in a forum people could fix and add stuff.

that's an excellent point, whackaxe. i'll agree that maintainence is important. but i still think that there's a certain amount of redudancy that needs to be addressed.

The most important criteria I need to consider before adding a new category is whether there's enough interest and expertise in the field to make it sustainable. Honestly I don't see that with a server side scripts category yet. The forum is ever evolving, however, so no idea is completely shut off until the fat lady sings :) That includes the infamous webmaster pit/lounge.

fa la la la la...... j/k

well i think i would attempt to contribute to the server side script posting category.... Im new at sss but i think its a great idea

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What type of maintance would be needed?
Just curious of what type of work geos into running this forum

Originally posted by WA
The most important criteria I need to consider before adding a new category is whether there's enough interest and expertise in the field to make it sustainable. Honestly I don't see that with a server side scripts category yet. The forum is ever evolving, however, so no idea is completely shut off until the fat lady sings :) That includes the infamous webmaster pit/lounge.

who's the fat lady? and where is she, I have got a whole roll of duct tape waiting to be used... ;)

I think I would contribute something to the serverside post a script forum. The only thing is that a lot of ss script (or programs might be a better deffinition) have lots of files associated with them so people would need space to store zip files and working examples...

I'm in agreement that it would be very useful. I think the list of possible posts that Mhtml posted would be very popular, not to mention other unthought of posts. What's the harm in adding it on a trial basis... After two weeks or so evaluate if there is enough interest, expertise and if its worth keeping.

well, i've been browsing these forums for a month (specially aspn) and it wouldn't be bad to set up some kind of script-collection, buth Thejavaman1 is right : one script doesn't show/learn you a lot.

why not set up a few mini apps (perhaps even using the same databases) with the most commom features :
- a login page (validated against a database)
- a form (dynamically filled from a recordset)
- a few pages to make select/insert/update/delete query's based on data from a form
- a few pages to display the results of query's
etc etc
+ a zip-file with the server pages

i have a few apps i could post there