Things To Do
&
Work in Progress

Shops Database

The shops page has been active for some time and currently has about 90 entries. We need to do two things

1. Add more shops for the UK
2. Improve the search mechanism

Routes Database

This has been live for a little while - I've got some info to copy over to the live database but it's not finalised yet. It's set up to allow anyone to input info directly into the database and for us to remove/edit/moderate entries quickly and easily.

Events System

Already up and running for some time, events that get registered are displayed on the homepage one calander month in advance and remain there until they've happened.

• Register your event (worldwide)
• Query the database
• Summary Pages
• Old events will be automatically deleted from the database.

Winter Conditions Server

Fixed (more-or-less) for last winter it didn't get used much - a couple of improvements are planned for this year but basically you can:

• Read reports/search
• Submit by form
• Submit/Receive reports by email

Find a Climbing Partner Service

This will be a simple searchable database (worldwide?)...

• You can put your details in (or not)
  • Name
  • Country
  • State/Region
  • City/Town
  • Email
  • Phone number
  • Grades-u-climb
  • Availability
  • Car owner?
  • Short description

New Hillwalking Section

We now have a section on hillwalking. We're always looking to host/provide extra content and we've now got a Munro & Corbett database as well.

Manage the Links page through a database

This is worth discussing, it would let people register links to their own pages and save us the hassle of editing the file. The majority of the links page could then be produced using PHP.
We can use a perl script to extract all the links and test them once-in--blue-moon...

Mike has developed LinkController which should help us to maintain working links, too!

Make the Archive Searchable

We added <meta> tags to all the pages we wanted to be searchable and then sucked the info into a database table. You can now search by category/keyword.

Other Comments

Java

Java would be nice to learn properly. We could have a picture editor where people could draw topos for crags (or whatever)?

JavaScript

I'm not sure I can think of anything really useful that JavaScript can do for us other than making bits of out pages look flash... but that isn't the point. The point is to end up with a useful, easy-to-use, well maintained website.

Linux

We write our pages under linux, we test our pages under linux (Apache) and we're going to host our pages under linux... Say no more.

Perl & PHP

We're going to write all our CGI programs and database interfaces in Perl and page interfaces in PHP. These will be going to a MySQL database.