January 30, 2008
The end of year 2007 was a little disappointing for the GPL Quake development
community. Quakesrc dot org, our central forum was instable during one month,
and finally down since the start of 2008.
Ender, the admin, has given no sight since the end of November. He has never
sent me the database export of the old COOP or DIE forum. Fortunately, between
Christmas and the end of the year, I have grabbed the entire COOP or DIE
sub-forum HTML pages.
After near 10 hours of hard work, a huge use of regular expressions and text processing,
I have re-imported the complete forum content. Of course with a correct database
export it could has taken 30 minutes, but I have learned a lot about the
preg_match function and text manipulations under PHP. For testing if
messages were correctly imported, I have re-read a lot of old thread, it's
always fun and surprising to dig in the past.
Finally, I'm now porting the entire COOP or DIE website and the WorldServer
to PHP 5, and I will be able to release it very soon.
The end of year 2007 was a little disappointing for the GPL Quake development
community. Quakesrc dot org, our central forum was instable during one month,
and finally down since the start of 2008.