Site News

This is a changelog of work done, features added, and bugs fixed.

09/23/2003

• Per-user language support.
• Collected info about borrowed, loaned, and pending items onto a single Your Status page.
• Added a Lost Password utility.
• Added "advanced" feature allowing users to edit their longitude and latitude, if they know them.
• Added tools for the website administrator.
• Added a favicon.
• Distance information added to many pages.
• Many miscellaneous fixes and touchups.

09/04/2003

• Added full language templating support.
• Software is distributed with French and German translations.
• Added 'Remember Me' login feature.
• ISBN lookups retrieve editor reviews.
• Reading Lists now maintain order.

08/26/2003

• Added Reading Lists.
• Common interests are now displayed in bold.
• Improved interest searching.
• Added the Laserdisc media type.
• Added EAN lookups as well as ISBN lookups.

08/01/2003

• MapQuest changed their page so I couldn't hack longitude/lattitude coordinates out of it, so now I do it through MSN. Anyway, the "Nearby Users" feature should be working again now.

06/19/2003

• Obfuscated user email addresses to prevent spambots from harvesting them.

06/06/2003

• Fixed a bug that had corrupted the item status of everything in the library, and hopefully restored everything to its correct state. Sorry.

05/26/2003

• Added additional profile info like webpage, AIM SN, ICQ #, MSN SN, etc. Update your profiles again...
• Added 'medium' column to new videos page.
• Slight DB schema reorg.

05/25/2003

• Added user bios and interest lists. Update your profiles...
• Recalculate geo-lookups when address is changed.
• Misc hackery...

05/23/2003

• Fixed geolocate script that was broken due to perl include path ridiculousness.
• Removed the "user" column from the item tables on the "user info" page.
• Translate \n to <br> when displaying user reviews.

05/22/2003

• Added "extend loan" feature.
• Kicked off reminder scripts that notify borrowers when they're overdue.

04/28/2003

• Added explicit support for videos.
• Fixed bug where ISBN filter strips valid non-numerics.

04/23/2003

• Added "Nearby Users" feature.
• Added subscription information for mailing lists on contact page.

04/17/2003

• Added ISBN# lookup functionality.
• Added ISBN DB column.
• Made error fonts a CSS style.

04/16/2003

• Switched 'Science Fiction' to 'Sci-Fi'
• Reflect DB limit on usernames/passwords in account creation form.
• Upgraded to PHP4
• Fixed broken "approval" link in email.

04/14/2003

• Specify wrap=virtual on all TextAreas for browsers with a different default.
• Fixed pages without footers that didn't display on Netscape 4.x.
• Gave up on the "li" without "ul" tag hack and switched to images for non-indented bullets.
• Properly URL-encode title queries.
• Added Humor, Business, Sociology, and Mathematics sections.
• Fixed bug where username was not case-insensitive in all places.
• Added specific apartment number column in DB.
• Switched style for search result headers again.

04/14/2003

• Added mouse-over review popups on title links in search results.
• Added better search functionality: ability to specify author only, title only, and search reviews.
• Changed background color for search result header.
• Added "books loaned" link in addition to existing "books borrowed" link.
• Added this "site news" section.