Midnight Plumbers - site technical information
The site is put together using free/open source materials where possible.
- Databases - MySQL
- Programming/Scripts - PHP 4, Perl 5, JavaScript, Java
- Hosted by - www.dr2.net - check out their excellent hosting plans
- Developed using - Namo Webeditor v5, Aedix, MySQL-Front and metapad
- Browser compatibility - tested on IE6 and Mozilla. The site has been (re)written using CSS (no tables) so everything should work ok
The following resource materials were used, mangled or just generally helpful
- Hugh E. Williams and David Lane, Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL, published by O'Reilly & Associates. Check out the source code at www.webdatabasebook.com
- Sterling Hughes, PHP Developers' Cookbook, published by SAMS
- Coranto v1.22 with various add-ons for the news scripts. This provides the top story and headlines on the home page along with all of the other stories in the news section. worth a look if you need that kind of thing.
- Java applets came from www.6sense.com
- Quiz - Quirex Perl Script
- codewalkers.com is a valuable source of help and guidance - please check it out
- Weblogs - currently provided courtesy of Blogger
- Forum - Invision Board
- HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS by Dan Shafer, published by Sitepoint 2003 is a book well worth having on your bookshelf. It takes away a bit of the pain that is the CSS learning curve
For more information contact The Webmaster who will be happy to help
