I don’t think I mention the little upgrade I did for our blog/rant system. Before I get into that, let me say the coding and design behind Applegeeks was done by me. I would get emails asking where can they download the source code for the rant system. I would release the code but the structure is horrible. The whole back end was built from scratch, basically I was still teaching myself PHP and mySQL. I really need to find the time and redo the whole back end.

When I created the rant system, it was a pretty simple setup. We would enter a new entry, the entry would get saved into the mySQL database and the main page will display the newest entry. The one thing I didn’t think about was, what if we were to post more than one entry in a day? So we ended up editing the recent entry with the word “Update” and added any new text. That got the work done but it was very lame. So for months I wanted to fix that problem but never got myself to do it. After kicking my own ass, I updated the rant system so it handles multiple entries in a day for each user.

If you look below, you will see “Other News”. It will display all the entries I submitted the whole day, the entry title and the time. I’m hoping this will help us and keep things organized on the main page.

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