Okay, mindspring's mail server has been *real* flakey lately and
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> > a web script that can
> > enable us listees to periodically enter our top
> > albums or tunes into a website
> > (preferably the main Acid Jazz List site), and the
> > script will compile them and
> > come up with some sort of "Acid Jazz List Top 10."
>
> We thought about this for the year end stuff actually,
> throwing a form up on a page for people to go to and
> fill out, then trying to automate the responses and
> compile that into something useful. the problem we
> thought about was that people have typeos all the
> time, refer to the same work a little differently,
> etc, and that's hard to work around.
Actually, this could be done without too much difficulty if you had a
database instead of storing all the data in text files. Basically,
have the ability to add each album into a different table, and run a
check on the album title in this table. If not found, then have the
user add it manually. The next user who tries to use this album will
have the (hopefully) correct spelling and will be able to correctly
update the "other" table which consists of spins given in a certain
week...or however you want to do it.
Well, in my opinion its not too difficult. It is time consuming more
than anything. Actually, one you have the database set up, you
could do all kinds of other things such as add reviews, um - well
you get the idea.
simon
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