FIRST contact database
 

Prompted by the Networking idea for FIRST teams through Gmail, I made a quick little database for contact information. Right now it's not very pretty and lacks some functionallity, but if we get enough teams in it, I'll work on that. :) At this point I've wasted 15 minutes of my life working on it; if I make it pretty, I may waste 30. :rolleyes:

Anyways, if you can (make sure to check with parents or mentors or whomever), please put your team in the FIRST contact database.

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Just in case it's interesting, there are currently 6 teams in the database. I'm going to say 20 teams and I'll clean it up some. :)

And the real reason for the post is the say: You can view a list of the teams in the database at http://traherom.homeunix.net/contacts/list.php.

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If we can get more teams to sign up, this is pretty cool. Great Job.

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This is cool, I'll check with our head mentor and add us later if he ok's it.

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Well, I had nothing better to do today because my current project (JFY) is in a state of possible desctruction because of competition, so I started working on the nicer version of the frontend which is up at http://traherom.homeunix.net/contacts2. Looks fairly nice, I guess, except for the corner rounding things in IE.

If you go there in IE, you'll see that the corners don't exactly position themselves correctly...

The divs which contain the corner image have a green border around them and the image itself has a red border. I gave the div which contains the rounder divs a black border, and as you can see it doesn't extend down to the images. The out divs are used to clip the corner image, which is just a circle:


Do you have any idea what's going on there? I would think IE just doesn't support multiple classes, but I've done it before...

--EDIT--
Oh, yeah, the borders are just for debugging. They're going away, don't worry. :D

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It appears that there are issues with the edit page.

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Yep... I haven't done that yet. :)

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So, I worked some on it and, ignoring the IE problem, I'd recommend that you use the new version. It's pretty and has several new features, including editing!

Yep, go it working. If you had to enter a password when you added your team, then you can go to the "edit" page and change your teams information. If you're one of the 6 who didn't have to do that, PM me and I'll set you put a password. And no, the teams which don't have passwords can't be edited by anyone.

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while trying to access http://traherom.homeunix.net/contacts2/add.php

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Oops.. :o

All better now. Thanks.

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awsome! i just added my team 447

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What about instead just providing teams with other teams emails, why not have a PM kinda system set up. You could send another team a message, and when they logged into their account they could check their messages. Maybe email alerts for when teams get messages?

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Why make the system more complex than it needs to be? An e-mail alert to check what's basically an e-mail?

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Hm... interesting. I might work on that sometime! (or in a little bit, whichever.)

Or maybe he's right. :)

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The FIRST Contact Database is now up to 31 teams (number updated)! What?!? You've never heard of the contact database? Well, check to see if your team is already in it and, if it isn't, add it (with a mentor/parent's permission)!)

Because of its huge (;)) size, I'm willing to put in some more time on it. Anyone have any suggestions? The current list of suggestions/bug fixes I may do:

• Add PM type functionality
• Every single *nix browser I've viewed it on (even FF, which works fine on IE), displays the wrong quarter of the rounding circle on the right side, as well as pushing it some distance left... (Boy, that's a bad sentence.)