Making a Directory-ish Thingie of Collectives
Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 8:37 pm
Following the completion of my links site's Explore page, and all its collectives and personal blogs listed therein, I got a great suggestion from awesome boyfriend. He suggested that I make notes about what each collective was about, topic-wise, so that it both broke up the long list of links and let visitors know ahead of time what each domain was about.
I did that this afternoon, ending up with an owner/creator name and a list of keywords for each collective, in this format:
WithinMyWorld.org
- Owner: Robin
- Subjects: Anime, Books, Movies, Comics, Western Animation, Blogging, etc.
But I started thinking--what if people could sort the list of collectives and blogs by what type of content they're interested in? For instance, they could click on the keyword "Anime," and the list would only display collectives with the keyword "Anime," sorted alphabetically.
Is such a thing feasible, or already made? I'm pretty sure a MySQL database could handle the keywords, links, and everything, but aside from that, I would have no idea how to build a PHP script to retrieve that info with clicks. (I was wondering if Enthusiast or another fanlisting-type script would work, even...just not sure how much code-rewriting I would have to do to make it work.) That and my last foray into using MySQL databases ended up with me having to clean up an apparent injection of spam through a search form, so I know I'd have to be careful...just want to make things fancier/easier if I can. xD
I did that this afternoon, ending up with an owner/creator name and a list of keywords for each collective, in this format:
WithinMyWorld.org
- Owner: Robin
- Subjects: Anime, Books, Movies, Comics, Western Animation, Blogging, etc.
But I started thinking--what if people could sort the list of collectives and blogs by what type of content they're interested in? For instance, they could click on the keyword "Anime," and the list would only display collectives with the keyword "Anime," sorted alphabetically.
Is such a thing feasible, or already made? I'm pretty sure a MySQL database could handle the keywords, links, and everything, but aside from that, I would have no idea how to build a PHP script to retrieve that info with clicks. (I was wondering if Enthusiast or another fanlisting-type script would work, even...just not sure how much code-rewriting I would have to do to make it work.) That and my last foray into using MySQL databases ended up with me having to clean up an apparent injection of spam through a search form, so I know I'd have to be careful...just want to make things fancier/easier if I can. xD