The display of projects is improved

When I started this site four and a half years ago, I had no idea I’d have 475 projects cross referenced. My zeal to find PHP projects on the web overshadowed the simple fact that projects change over time.

How I’ve kept track of things was with plain text files and spreadsheets, like the saying goes “the shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot”. Adding projects was easy, it was the updating part that has always been a bit tough to accomplish. With automation in mind, I’ve taken all the information I have on the projects and placed it in a MySQL table. The fruits of this effort are apparent when you go the different project sections. Displayed neatly in a table format are the projects with statistical information and links to their current home pages.

Of the 475 projects, 386 are still active and 89 have been set to inactive. Of the active projects, 317 need updating to new releases and some have had name changes. Before I begin the updating process, the PHPXref Perl app will need to be modified to use the newly created MySQL table, instead of individual config text files. Once I streamline things a bit, updating projects should be much simpler, which will free me to add more over time.

The forum at PHPXref.net that kept the project changelogs was closed, one less thing to deal with on update time. Eventually I’ll put back a forum, but only for discussing projects or being informed of new ones to add. The docs at PHPXref.org was also closed, I may place a wiki there one day to share the knowledge I’ve accumulated while doing the cross references.

2010-07-24 16:29

Dormant projects

Over the course of 3 years, PHPXref has amassed quite a lot of cross references.

As I go back through them all, I find that many projects have either been abandoned or are not being actively developed. In order to streamline things, I’ve decided that each section will now contain a dormant listing which will separate these projects from the active ones.

Once all the sections have been properly separated, I’ll begin the process of updating the active projects to their latest releases. The dormant projects will be checked every so often, just in case they become active once again.

2009-03-19 12:55

PHPXref is moving

We’re moving to an unlimited hosting account at DreamHost. No more worries about disk space or bandwidth requirements!

I switched over the DNS to the new web server, if you’re reading this, then you’ve made it to the West Coast of the United States. If your DNS server keeps low TTL settings, you may have arrived here before all the cross references have finished syncing. Should you encounter a 404 page instead of a cross reference, please excuse the dust.

2008-12-14 19:13

Use the Docs

Decided to put online, whatever documentation I find myself always Googling for:

The PHP and MySQL manuals are updated via a daily cron job. The other docs will be updated manually until I have a good feel as to how often they change, then I’ll setup appropriately timed cron jobs for them also.

Use the Docs, sounds better than RTFM ;)

2008-07-28 22:10

The Explorer regeneration

Changed the default behavior of the left side explorer menu in the cross references.

The default was to show the directory explorer, but this prevented linking to specific pages generated by the cross reference. One of the nicest examples of this new default look is the Wordpress code.

2008-07-20 21:44

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