How to manage your posts/files - FAQ

John Cooper · Post by **John Cooper** » Sat Jun 30, 2001 11:00 am

Some people have asked me how to perform these operations, so I'll explain here:

How do I delete a post?
First make sure you are logged in (click the Login link in the top right of the window). Now, find your post. Click on the edit button below it - it looks like this: <img src="/forums/images/edit.gif">. The first checkbox in the options is "Delete this post". Check it, and hit "Submit".

I edited my post, but when I clicked "Submit", it said I didn't enter all the required fields.
The file submission pages require you to make some selections in the tags area - I want to make sure people select these, as they'll make forum-searches and filtering much more meaningful. So when you upload a device, you must make a selection in the Price and Type choosers (while the "Related To" and "Requires" tags are optional).

Note that when I imported all the old files, I did not set all of these for you. So if you go back to edit one of your old posts which I imported for you, you'll need to set the required tags before it lets you submit.

How do I upload a new version of a file for my post?
When you edit your post, you will see the file uploads area in the center. The URL to the current file will be shown there, and you have the choice of either uploading a new file (by clicking on the browse button, and selecting a file off your hard disk), or typing in a URL to a remote file, which is hosted somewhere other than planetz. In either of these cases, the old file (if it's hosted on planetz) will be deleted first.

I see a post in the list which is mine, but it says "Anonymous".
Short answer: Just <a href="mailto:webmaster@planetz.com">email me</a> with the URL of the post, and I'll fix it for you! (And make sure you register first!)

Longer answer: When I imported all the old posts, I did my best to match up old poster names/email addresses with registered users in the new database. However, you guys weren't always consistent, and sometimes used different email addresses and aliases, etc. Also, some of you weren't registered users in the new database at the time of the import.

I'll add answers here as I receive questions!

Cheers,
-john

[ This Message was edited by: John Cooper on 2001-06-30 22:52 ]

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Sat Jun 30, 2001 1:06 pm

Where did the Picture link, Notes, and MP3 sample go? It would be really cool if the picture automatically popped up when you clicked on the device (sorta like <a href=http://planetz.ghostwheel.com/forums/vi ... =5>this</a>), perhaps also these links could be bigger too, not sure what issues might be involved with this, of course...

A small search box directly on the top of the forum to search within the forum you're inside?

I really like the integration of the new areas (Devices, etc) into the forums, slick and hopefully will help the connection between developers and users become stronger.

John Cooper · Post by **John Cooper** » Sat Jun 30, 2001 9:47 pm

You should see the links to all the files associated with the post, at the top , next to the posted date. True these links could be bigger, but I'm always fighting to get the most info in a reasonable amount of space, so I think once you know where to look, you won't mind the icons being smaller... at least that's what i hope

e.g., see <a href = "http://planetz.ghostwheel.com/forums/vi ... 16&1">this post</a>. You should see links to File, Image, Sound Example.

The reason i didn't directly source the image into the post was that some of the images are enormous e.g. see <a href="http://planetz.ghostwheel.com/forums/vi ... 14&0">this one</a>. Too bad I can't add logic to say "if the image is smaller than 400x400, then show it here" - I don't think I have a way to do that in php.

-john

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Sat Jun 30, 2001 10:17 pm

Excellent, I must be going blind, I guess I thought <a href=http://planetz.ghostwheel.com/forums/vi ... >Saturn</a> had an image. Checking image size in php is a lil tricky <a href=http://www.zend.com/manual/function.get ... ze.php>but possible</a>. Not necessary anyway.

John Cooper · Post by **John Cooper** » Sun Jul 01, 2001 6:02 pm

On 2001-06-30 23:17, subhuman wrote:
Checking image size in php is a lil tricky <a href=http://www.zend.com/manual/function.get ... ze.php>but possible</a

ha! easy! i didn't even notice that. i'm sorta learning php on an as-needed basis, and have never really browsed thru the full function set. so thanks for pointing that out. i may go ahead and implement it. there are other things that are higher priority tho!

Thanks as always
-john