Album Covers in Forum Header?

Roastbeef · Unread post by **Roastbeef** » Fri Oct 03, 2003 12:22 pm

Hey Jared. How about putting the album covers in the forum header like you have on all the tab pages? It would be nice to be able to easily access a particular song's tab directly from the forums.

Roastbeef · Unread post by **Roastbeef** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:49 pm

Anyone...?

Bueller...?

jsgksu · Unread post by **jsgksu** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:55 pm

Good call on that, I find myself going to songs while Im on the boards a lot when people mention something I wanna check out or something. Is that possible Kanter?

Unread post by **jkanter** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 2:00 pm

jsgksu wrote:Good call on that, I find myself going to songs while Im on the boards a lot when people mention something I wanna check out or something. Is that possible Kanter?

Well....the one reason I didn't put them up on here is becuase of the load times that it would incur on the server. While people usually go to a couple songs and whatnot while browsing the normal site.......the number of pages viewed on the forum is exponentially greater. I will consider it and see if we can do that....but all in all, it might not be possible from a webmaster standpoint.

I'll add it in a little bit and we'll see if it makes any difference...good suggestion, thanks man, peace

Roastbeef · Unread post by **Roastbeef** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:02 pm

Jared - I've done a fair amount of phpBB admin and I'm sure it's possible, but your point on the load time is valid. However, I looked at the code and it doesn't seem like it will impact forum performance much. All the tab pages load very quickly. Would be cool! 8)

Brock · Unread post by **Brock** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:11 pm

When Jared talks about server load, it's because the lists of songs from each album are pulled dynamically from a database (at least they were last time i checked). Couple that with the 10 queries phpbb makes, plus the high traffic on the boards.... that's pretty messy.

Appfro · Unread post by **Appfro** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:45 pm

what about just having a song pull down list that has all the songs like the one on the front page? would that be easier, it would still serve the purpose too.

Brock · Unread post by **Brock** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:51 pm

Appsoldier wrote:what about just having a song pull down list that has all the songs like the one on the front page? would that be easier, it would still serve the purpose too.

same principle

Unread post by **jpittman** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 9:10 pm

Actually, the list isn't pulled from the database every time. We generate new static copies whenever it needs to be updated (automatically, server side).

I'll put in some mental cycles and try and come up with a low bandwidth, low proc. way of doing this.

Brock · Unread post by **Brock** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 8:28 pm

jpittman wrote:Actually, the list isn't pulled from the database every time. We generate new static copies whenever it needs to be updated (automatically, server side).

I'll put in some mental cycles and try and come up with a low bandwidth, low proc. way of doing this.

And that's why he's the PHP guru; my lowly self would have generated dynamically and just added load to the server.

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