Pixel Joint Forum: I need help on a Pixel Joint-like website

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   A recent plugin for N64 Emulators has allowed the use of custom game
textures, and thus retexturing games has become a fad on the
EmuTalk.net boards. The current board has absolutely no
organization whatsoever, since topics are being made all over the place
and topics that actually have textures are left in the dust.

I was thinking of making a web site that will organize these individual
textures (which are all images) in the same way Pixel Joint works
(upload a texture, texture gets approved, open for download and
c&c). 

Could anybody point me to a tutorial on making a site like this?

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Dejital Midshipman Joined: 03 March 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 75	Topic: I need help on a Pixel Joint-like website Posted: 20 March 2005 at 10:04pm
	A recent plugin for N64 Emulators has allowed the use of custom game textures, and thus retexturing games has become a fad on the EmuTalk.net boards. The current board has absolutely no organization whatsoever, since topics are being made all over the place and topics that actually have textures are left in the dust. I was thinking of making a web site that will organize these individual textures (which are all images) in the same way Pixel Joint works (upload a texture, texture gets approved, open for download and c&c). Could anybody point me to a tutorial on making a site like this?
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Demon Commander Joined: 16 March 2005 Online Status: Offline Posts: 562	Posted: 21 March 2005 at 12:41am
	you'll need some kind of scripting language to do this. HTML is purely cosmetic, and a tiny bit backend. But the languages you'll be interested in are Javascript, ASP, or PHP. sedgemonkey uses ASP, and that is what I program. Fortunately there are scripts that are already made that are free, and are very useful in what you're looking for. SOOP Portal is a portal script that uses webWizForums script, the forum script used here, and there are Modifications that you can use to make a Downloads section.
	"At least we killed some boredom..." - Death Note.
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sedgemonkey Admiral Joined: 07 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1669	Posted: 24 March 2005 at 10:50pm
	Demon mentioned everything you need to know. Linux/PHP/MySQL or Windows/ASP/MSSQL are typical setups, but there are a zillion ways you can set up your web app. The best place to start is finding a host that will allow the following... Uploading access for your textures Database (MySQL, MSSQL or Access) Scripting (ASP or PHP) There are other techs out there for web like JSP, Coldfusion, .NET and old school Perl/CGI, but ASP and PHP are the easiest to learn and implement and there's tons of free code online for anything you might need. With all that said there is one thing you should know... building and maintaing a web app takes a lot of time. Even customizing existing code can take a huge amount of work so be prepared to pour in a lot of hours.
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Guests Guest Group	Posted: 05 June 2005 at 2:11am
	no,no tutorials, but i'll help and as long as it don't cost me anything
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