New website

Permanent: "New website"
18th December 2004

The resource map project will be a bit different from the previous projects. A large part of the result will be the website containing the generating maps. This means that the resource map project won't have a standard tab on the main page. It will instead reside on its own website with its own design. A link will however be provided from the main website.

The project is progressing at a steady speak. Things that have been completed since the last update:

The basic viewer can now handle the XML structured data. This data include the info about the nodes, zones and updates.
A parser for logs have been built, it is designed to cope with my personal logging of resource nodes. It will later be built into a planned client. The parser can currently output its data as either delta_.xml files for updating the viewer's data or as MySQL data for the databases.
An updater has been built to automatically regenerate the viewer's data by using delta_.xml files generated by the parser. The intent is for the updater to also be able to handle any data update to the future client (automatically downloading the delta_.xml files from the server and patching the data).
The database structures for the website has been defined and created. They should stay the same until the feature client is created. At that time another two more DBs will be created to handle data updates to the client and user submitted updates to the server.

I'm currently working on the websites design and parallel with porting the viewer program's code to php to dynamically generate the images on the website.