What Scripts Do You Want?

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I'm in the processs of developing a couple of new scripts for webmasters / designers, entrepreneurs like you.

However, before I start developing, I'd really like to know what kind of scripts that you would most likely want?

For example, maybe you want a ticketing script, a car rental system script, hosting script, band music management script, real estate listing script, auction script, form builder script, etc.

Please let me know your ideas. It would be really helpful, - I wanna develop scripts that people want, and don't waste my time on the ones that people don't want. As a way of appreciation for your ideas, I'll probably give the scripts to you when I get it done.

Thanks.

p/s: Sorry if theres a similar post like this. I tried a search but couldn't find any.

Antaramedia, are you writing these scripts as a free service to the community? That's great! We really appreciate it!

I'll tell you one script I would like: A script which will automatically resize a JPEG to an arbitrary thumbnail size image. So I could read a directory of images and it would dynamically recreate thumbnails of a size of my choosing and make them available either in the same directory or another.

What do you think? I would love to write it myself, but find the time harder and harder to find......

THANKS IN ADVANCE, Antaramedia!

Hi Kyrnt,

Thanks for the idea Kyrnt. But lucky for you, someone has already done exactly what you need.
You can check it out here:

http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/#download

Nevertheless, I do have an image managing tool I used to co-develop on and
It's now used on some my Websites. It can be used as standalone, or used in conjunction with HTMLArea, and has powerful resizing, crop functions.

You can check out the demo of this image manager tool at

http://demoarea.antaramedia.com

Then select ANTARAMEDIA Image Manager Demo from the dropdown menu.

Cheers. Keep the ideas coming. :-)

Thanks for the great information, antaramedia -- good luck with your efforts!

How about a script that allows a webmaster to produce dynamic navigation for their site and incorporate a affilates navigation into a simple, easy to install/manage app

What I have wanted for a while (mostly to tame my wife as she really wants to do a recipe site) is a recipes script. The current ones are expensive and lack features that I feel any kind of distributed app should have, for instance....

Complete seperation of logic from code (for instance, using Smarty or another template engine that a friend of mine developed that is compact and perfect, I'm sure he would not object to it's use as long as copyrights stay intact).

The ability to scale recipes from 1 serving down to 100 servings. I had tried to do this myself and found this portion of the backend the hardest thing to come up with. I eventually came up with a DB structure that would allow this, I think, however I lost the time to continue development.

Recipe comments and additions. Two seperate yet equally important factors, we both know what a comment is but what if someone wants to add their secret ingredient to the recipe without uploading a completely new recipe, there would need to be a system in place to add to recipes without doing it in a comment 29 pages down.

These are just some of the ideas I've had and if you would like some help let me know. My wife has been nagging me for a while to complete something along these lines so forgive me for trying to dump it on you but I'm getting desperate,

By the way, I've seen recipe scripts that measure up to nearly nothing being sold for $90 so I think there is a market for a really well done solution.

I'd absolutely love if there was a catalogue script out there that wasn't for commercial use. I'm trying to write my own, but there are so many glitches... Aiiiie. @@;;; But I might be the only one who would use something like that, so maybe my script isn't the best for you to use your time on. ^^;

I don't know if this exists or not, but perhaps a debug script that allows someone to insert PHP code and have it checked for peculiar or detrimental code (at the very least incorrect code) and then have it display that persons code again, only highlighting the line(s) the error(s) occured on, highlighting (in another color) the exact code in question, and perhaps in a side box (or inserted as a comment at the end of that line) a description of the error.

For example, if there was a missing } after an If statement, it would highlight that entire If statement, and then highlight the end of it (the last ;, maybe), and then have a bolded note saying // missing } at end of If.

I find myself wasting valuable time searching for small, delicate errors that are like looking for needles in a haystack, so I think it would be valuable to me... perhaps it's a waste of time and resources in the long run, though, for how much work might be involved?

(and then again, maybe it already exists?)

Bloodsyne, PHP has a built in debugger... The parse errors tell you the error, it's the very best possible debugging system there could be. If you learn to understand what the parse errors mean, you can take that information and fix your script to comply.

Not saying this to be an insult or anything, but it SHOULD be no problem finding errors displayed by PHP's debugger.

Originally Posted by Logical Program

Bloodsyne, PHP has a built in debugger... The parse errors tell you the error, it's the very best possible debugging system there could be. If you learn to understand what the parse errors mean, you can take that information and fix your script to comply.

Not saying this to be an insult or anything, but it SHOULD be no problem finding errors displayed by PHP's debugger.

Usually, yes, but have you ever gotten an "unexpected BLAH on line 230" and had absolutely nothing wrong with 230? Yes, I know, usually it means there is a missing ; or } or whatnot on other lines (especially if 230 is nested), but sometimes the error is completely unobvious...

Yes, PHP's debugger works. No, it does not work well enough.

And besides, I'm especially speaking on behalf of beginners. It would be a
great beginners tool.

Also, I'm not saying that debugging can't be done, but when you've got a gigantic PHP file and have possibly a dozen errors, it would be handy; If you're just making a quick mock code job for someone else to browse at, it would be handy (especially if you can't check it because you're at work or whatnot); if you're trying to incorporate someone else's pre-coded PHP script and you funk it up trying to edit it (especially if they're the ones who made the error, because you're not as familiar with the coding as they would) , it would be handy.

You're right, for most coding jobs the PHP dubugger is efficient, but I think there are more situations to consider.

I run small freelancing company, and from the requests I get:

Easier to use Content Mangement Scripts. The main ones are all very complicated to a newbie it seems.

Easy to use RSS feed generators. Same thing, people get confused by RSS.

SEO anything...... People want their sites to rank higher, and more traffic. Things that help thier sites rank better legally are a great help. I just wrote a templated goarticles publisher for a client because he just wanted an easier way to publish articles with his layout.

Not much I can think of that doesn't exist somewhere else. Even a pretty decent livehelp center is included in fantastico now...which I get asked to make for people all the time.

Originally Posted by rewq007

Easy to use RSS feed generators. Same thing, people get confused by RSS.

I second that. I have no clue what I'm doing when it comes to RSS, but I want to incorporate the Dictionary.com "Word of the Day" RSS into my website... I don't know if that requires a feed generator, or if that's even how it works, but... well, yeah, like you said, people get confused by RSS. I just happen to be one of those people.

Hi friends,

Thanks for these useful and exciting ideas. I'll definitely try to work on some of these and make it available to you when I get it done.

cptnwinky,
I really like the recipes script idea, and I'll try to work on that as soon as possible.
I'll let you know when I get it done, and hopefully you'll make your wife happy :-)

tekistar,
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I'm not really sure what kind of catalogue script do you want. There are a couple open source shopping cart systems that are good. OSCommerce is one of them, find more about it at http://www.oscommerce.com . I do have a more of a customized & modified version of OSCommerce running at http://estore.antaramedia.com . In any case tell me more what you really want, and I could probably get it for you.

BTW, Bloodsyne,
Baed on your post, I think what you really want is a PHP Debugging tool/software.
You can find a fairly good one here . It's free and useful.

http://gubed.mccabe.nu/?module=base&page=index

You also mentioned that you want to incorporate the Dictionary.com "Word of the Day" RSS into your website. I've made available a tutorial on How to make RSS Feeds Content Appear on Your Website over at

http://www.antaramedia.com/site/Expl...ur_Website/56/

if you're interested.

I also liked the ideas on a simpler CMS and affiliate systems, and I'll try to work on that as well when I have the time.

In any case, thanks a lot for the ideas. And keep it coming.

Hi Antaramedia,

I am currently trying to get a script working for my site that will display a random product from mysql database, along with some other information about the product such as:

Product Name
Description
Price
Link to purchase the product.

However, this site is an e-commerce site, so I have a shopping cart already in place, which is making it a bit more difficult for me to handle.

I would appreciate it alot if you could help me come up with a cool looking script that will pull the requested data out of the db, and display it as a 'Featured Product' on my homepage...

I already have some of the code but it's pretty much far from finished. I would appreciate it if you (or someone here on this forum) could help me out with it.

Ps: This is what I have so far, but, not realizing that for me to link the product image, I will need to use the shopping carts code stored in the templates, ...Which means I will need to use the url stored in the shopping carts template to link to the products page, not a row from the database. Please assist me on how to go about doing this.

<?
// Connect to the database
mysql_connect ('localhost', 'username', 'password') ;
mysql_select_db ('name of db'); 

// Edit this number to however many links you want displaying
$num_displayed = 1 ;

// Select random rows from the database
$result = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM products ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT $num_displayed"); 

// For all the rows that you selected
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) 

{
// Display them to the screen...

echo "<a href=\"{$product.pid|getProductUrl}&parent={$parent}" . $row["image_url"] . "\">
<img src=\"" . $row["image_url"] . "\" border=1 alt=\"" . $row["title"] . "\">
</a>" ;
}
?>

If you noticed in the echo statement, specificlly this:

"{$product.pid|getProductUrl}&parent={$parent}" . $row["image_url"]

That's the url that links to the details page for each product in my shopping cart...How come that isn't working? If you can work something up that looks good in a table format Preferrably a table divided in half with the product image in the left side, and the product information in the right hand side that would be awsome!

Thanks A Million in advance!
I'll keep checking back on this forum.
-Brian

basic car rental script for an independent car rental company .

A really good and flexible online shop script which can handle a variety of payment methiods ie(paypal, and if possible charitychoice)

and also on the total the ability to donate extra on top of the bill, i want to make one for a charity site im making but im not quite as skilled, my main problem with the others ive found it the front end and all that,

if it was dont so the parts of it were in variables on small chunks of code which can easily be played with in a design would be great.
and would be greatly apprieciated

Contact me if you are happy to do it and need more details

Thanks,
Dan