When
MoDCAMeRa was first onlined, every news post, comic and comment was entered
in using PHPmyAdmin. Although this was groovy for me, Tom suggested that a nifty PHP application would be
more convenient all-round, so I set to work.
Soon, I had created the fully functional and secure news post, comic and comment manager known as the
MoDCAMeRa Manager.
MoDCAMeRa Manager comes equipped with the ability to list, view, create, edit and delete news posts, comics
and comic comments through a stylish, minimalistic interface. On the News Posts Overview, every news post
within the database is listed, sorted by thread age and sub-sorted by post age. Each new thread is
shown as a dark grey band in the news post table. On the Comics Overview, every comic item in the database
is listed together with the title of the news post with which it is linked. Individual comics can be shown,
commented upon, reuploaded and granted an alias in the MoDCAMeRa comic archives table.
Every action taken
within the MoDCAMeRa Manager is consistency checked and redundant posts and comments are removed.
MoDCAMeRa Manager was designed to give complete administrative control over the dynamic content of
MoDCAMeRa. For security and ease-of-use reasons, a cut-down, user-oriented MoDCAMeRA Mini-Manager was
created. MoDCAMeRa Mini-Manager allows users to add news posts to already existing threads, and to comment
on any already published comic. Users cannot edit posts to which they are not attributed, nor can they
delete posts.
The MoDCAMeRa Managers are sophisticated stuff, I've gotta admit. The most intense PHP coding I've ever
done, really. Although infinitely useful for MoDCAMeRa maintenance, MM was coded only for the PHP and
mySQL practice, so don't count on any more web apps being coded anytime soon.
Suprisingly, over the year that MM has been in active service, it has only required a small number of very
minor alterations to it's core code to fix some minor bugs. As far as I'm concerned, MM is totally complete.