Books of Tamriel Application

Amrod · Post by **Amrod** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:13 pm

I'm currently working on a web based application. This web application will be able to store books (and other forms of TES lore) into a database. Then I will try and make a wide range of search functions that will allow people to make specific searches in the database.

Hopefully this will be usefull to the writers/lore people here at TR and possibly other projects. I'm planning to start by adding TR books, but I will eventually move on to adding books and lore found in the TES games itself.

This application will be built in php and will work with a MySQL database (but will be usuable with other database types). It will have a simple interface, I might make it look nice if I feel like it. But for now main priority is to get this to work properly.

For now it just has 3 functions, and isn't really usefull at all, but it works. It can print (with printing I mean show in your browser) all books in the database, add a book to the database and search by title.

Screenshots are here (it looks really crappy)

http://nnoppe.com/books.html

I'm not giving people access to the working demo version yet as it will just eat up my bandwith. As soon as a decent version comes out I will post it here.

Anyway, I hope that in the future at least some people will use this. Whatever the case it will be a learning experience for me (first time I use php).

DiegoDraw · Post by **DiegoDraw** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:28 pm

I don't want to sound like an ass or anything, but will this program differ at all from [url=http://til.gamingsource.net/]The Imperial Library[/url]? Or is it supposed to contain only TR's books and not already in-game books? Just wondering.

~D-Draw

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:38 pm

it seems to be a program for efficiently sorting and finding books from both the game and TR. til's search feature is rather hard to deal with at times (and dosent alow the type of customazation that amrods apears to have).

Amrod · Post by **Amrod** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:38 pm

DiegoDraw wrote:I don't want to sound like an ass or anything, but will this program differ at all from [url=http://til.gamingsource.net/]The Imperial Library[/url]? Or is it supposed to contain only TR's books and not already in-game books? Just wondering.

~D-Draw

It will have more search options and contain TR books in addition to books found in game. In fact i'll start by adding TR books. So it will be different from TIL.

P.S. I'm also open for requests for future features of the program, if you have any suggestion feel free to post them or even PM them to me.

ch85us2001 · Post by **ch85us2001** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:46 pm

Great work, Amrod.

I actually had an idea for an App myself, one that would transform psuedocode into MWScript. Then I realized it was a lot of work adding all that junk in, and left it as a pipedream (I work in BASIC).

The_Warder · Post by **The_Warder** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:30 pm

great job amrod I have I have some idea of the time you have put into this and I think it is great.

Post by **Haplo** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:48 am

Moved and Stickied for our Lichey pleasure.

lb003g0676 · Post by **lb003g0676** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:48 am

WOAH... Amrod is already working into Webmasterdom!

Xui'al · Post by **Xui'al** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:01 am

This sounds quite promising.

Amrod · Post by **Amrod** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:36 pm

I was going through the lit forum for a bit and noticed this stickied post. I never actually continued working on this. Now that I'm webmaster I have ideas of having sort of a BoT browser (on the forums) that has the kind of functions described above. It's low priority, there is a lot of stuff to be done and L&W doesn't seem to be in desperate need of this, but the idea of making it is still there.

Nanu · Post by **Nanu** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:47 pm

That'd be really nice of you. We don't need it, per se - but we could use one.

Lit Mods love gadgets.

Xui'al · Post by **Xui'al** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:50 pm

Ooh goody. I love to press buttons!

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:25 pm

even if not in app form, we need some kind of list with all teh books so we can gidure out what is appropriate for which ints without reading em

Nanu · Post by **Nanu** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:41 pm

I'll see what I can do.

Amrod · Post by **Amrod** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:58 pm

Lady Nerevar wrote:even if not in app form, we need some kind of list with all teh books so we can gidure out what is appropriate for which ints without reading em

Thats a good idea if I can fit something like that into the claims browser, but I'm a looooong way from even starting on it, maybe not even this year. It really depends on the time I have.