I'm sorry to have to disappoint once again, but the launch of MétEX will have to wait a few more days. Last week, I noticed certain sections of the site had problems with charsets and encoding. The result is that accents are not displaying correctly, producing garbled text instead.
Obviously, I do not want to launch the site with such a big bug. Not to worry though, I am sorting things out with my host, and it should be a very quick fix.
See you again next week!
Well, that didn't take long.
That's it! The site has been completely converted from ASP.net and Access to PHP and MySQL. Everything is functioning exactly the same as it was two years ago when I submitted it to my tutors.
The only problem is the database. All of my backups contain the same version of the database - the one submitted at the deadline. However, it was still missing the descriptions of several (actually more than 30) stations, so over the next week, I finished researching all the stations and uploaded an updated database to the test server.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any backups of that final version of the database. This means that at this moment, almost half of the stations in MÈtEX are missing descriptions. While I could go ahead and open the site right now, I feel it would not give an accurate representation of my work.
Therefore, I will rewrite the station descriptions over the current week. If, by the weekend, I have not finished all of the descriptions, I will open the site anyway, but disabling the incomplete lines.
Of course, I hope I manage to find a copy of this elusive database!
All of the Flash's PHP scripts have been converted. All of the photos and sounds have been uploaded. All of the Flash movies have been updated. All of this is live right now if you know where to look.
The following still needs to be done:
- Conversion of text-only tour to PHP;
- Conversion of I-Mode Index/Tour/POI pages to PHP;
Once I complete these last conversions, I will open up the site to the public.
Unfortunately I still have not found the final version of the database. Unless I can find this soon, it means that some of the stations (roughly 20) will be lacking descriptions. Also, I will be using this blog as a place to collect bug reports, but I am considering opening a forum for this purpose. It depends on the amount of traffic MétEX receives.
MétEX 1.0 will launch sometime this week. Keep your eyes peeled!
