School project (torrent website)

[HenkaN75]

HI
I just started making a torrent website for my school project.
The site will focus on active swedish movies (im swedish).
I got plenty of time until the project should be turned in, mars 2012, but i need to start now because the teachers want me to write logs during the process of my work.
I have done websites before and know html, php, css and how javascripts work.

I want my website to contain:
1. Advanced search function that will search for the movie title, uploaders name or genre.
2. The 15 latest uploaded movies will be shown at the top on the start page with the latest at the top.
3. A nice "Log in" function for users.
4. Maybe a forum if i find it usefull later.

Im using "http://jquery.com/" latest versions of javascript because most of the torrent sites use it.

I found a nice "Log in" function on this site "http://shareitall.se/" that i want to use but i need some help with the code. I cant get "LOGGA IN" to open so i can write my log in information.

Im using Dreamweaver 8 and google chrome/internet explorer 8.

Any help with the log in code is appreciated and also more tips of what can be useful for a torrent site!

 

[Kickazz006]

i'm going to say this is safe for now

i'll be watching this thread for spam though (@ everyone else - please don't be noobs)

 

[Runawaycoder]

What are you searching? I'm not quite sure how current torrent sites work. Are you searching a database?

Also where is your log in information stored?

Is your teacher okay with you using open source code?

 

[mezz0]

Any help with the log in code is appreciated and also more tips of what can be useful for a torrent site!

What can be useful for a torrent site is a disclaimer of liability and a huge notice stating you are only hosting .torrent files
and no actual copyrighted material *right??*

 

[CodenameG]

my suggestion is find another school project, because first and foremost 90% of teachers wont know what your project is, because they cant wrap their minds around what i torrent is, or how it works. not only that, but what if this tracker gets picked up on and sued? you are then responsible for it and it would be better to just pick something else.

my recommendation is do take like 3 Swedish movies and do a report about them, and how they are historically accurate or whatever BS things you wanna write about.

 

[Azucar]

Any way you can incorporate this into ipb/vbulletin? Looks nice

 

[arczi19]

my suggestion is find another school project, because first and foremost 90% of teachers wont know what your project is, because they cant wrap their minds around what i torrent is, or how it works. not only that, but what if this tracker gets picked up on and sued? you are then responsible for it and it would be better to just pick something else.

my recommendation is do take like 3 Swedish movies and do a report about them, and how they are historically accurate or whatever BS things you wanna write about.

Unless its a University level project, surely the staff will know what a torrent is if that's the case.

 

[CodenameG]

Unless its a University level project, surely the staff will know what a torrent is if that's the case.

but if it is, surely theres no way they will take something thats open source that your hosting.

trust me, your better off finding something else.

 

[cowdude]

Some hints:

1. uninstall dreamweaver
2. stop testing on IE* unless your projects MUST be compatible on most common browsers. Waste of time
3. don't use any external stupid libs, jquery has everything you need
4. don't try plugging your site to a board's DB, this takes a lot of time and it's completly useless for your project
5. design the DB schemas first, then start implementing your backend safe getters/setters
6. once you're done with most of the backend, you can start working on the frontend, which contains two parts if you're going on the AJAX way:
6.1 'frontend's backend', which is the link between your frontend ajax calls and your backend part
6.2 the frontend itself: UI, pages, layouts, links

Most of the interesting work relies on the backend, the frontend is really trivial. Since this is a school project, keep in mind this will surely ends into a piece of crap barely usable. No offense here, just telling you not to dive into something 'too complex' for nothing as you won't have time nor the knowledge for that... Just keep it simple and focus on interesting parts of your project, like security and backend protocols for example.

 

[HenkaN75]

My mentor for my school project is also my c++ teacher and he knows what torrents is.
I asked him when i choosed what to do as a project and he said that its okay for him if i do a torrent website.

If you think i will fail it wont be a problem because if i make the best project without logs i dont get any grades but if i fail and got logs with reflection of my failure i can even get 1 of the higher grades, thats how the project system works here.

The search function will search for the given word on the website server and the log in information will be stored somewhere too, but i havent come there yet.
I have a classmate that does websites on his spare time for smaller companies and sell them for around 400-500$ each so he can surely help me with something.

I use what i use for a reason, dreamweaver have a nice layout that u can code by ureself and fast switch too design mode too see if it looks great. It also have a ftp setup that have an option: sync youre folders on save.
My friend that makes websites told me that IE doesnt read every script right and i want my website to workout on every webbrowser, isnt that good?

 

[Dubbelu]

My friend that makes websites told me that IE doesnt read every script right and i want my website to workout on every webbrowser, isnt that good?

It's good that you want to make your site work on every browser, but not for a simple project, unless it's one of the requirements to do so.

 

[lollete]

A list of usefull tools:
MysqlWorkbench for schema design
Eclipse for php coding
Propel (if you want to use an ORM).