code is almost done

Well here is a surprise, after yesterdays getting database stuff sorted I had a few ideas bouncing around in my head. So this morning I started to do a little php/mysql coding. All I was aiming for was to pull out the contents of the DB list them and create url friendly links. Nothing too involved I wasnt looking to link and open the files or anything like that or actually have the urls work if you click on them.

Well after 15 minutes of start coding and getting what I wanted working ok, all of which was first time apart from a slight change I had to add in to the proposed links to the items from the list. So I played about a little more and before I knew it I had the url friendly links actually working which there was a slight hiccup with at first.

Then I moved onto dividing up the sections via navigation which wasnt too hard and then pulling out the selected item and then linking to the actual flash file. All of which worked with little to no hassle. I then wrote a couple of functions to make sure things validate properly (basically make sure a section is a real section). I still need to implement this for the final selected item which wont be difficult but once thats done thats pretty much all the front end error detection done as none of what people input will hit the db safeguarding it all woo hoo.

This is a change for me that a project is actually coming together pretty quickly. Now I have all of this working I had a few things I want to add, but overall I need to start thinking about the design as thats going to be the big stumbling block next in relation to amount of work that needs to be done/will slow down this project.