Book reviews : FAQ

How does this work?
This is simply a front end coded in PHP to a MySQL database. If I ever get the code cleaned up, I'll release it as a tarball for others to use.
What if the book I want to review has already been reviewed?

That's fine -- go ahead and enter another review for it. That way, we can get a diversity of opinions about the books

I put HTML in my review pointing to my warez site, but it just showed up as the raw HTML!!!

Yup - HTML tags are converted to display as raw HTML. Sorry.

My name is O'Doul, but in the display it shows up as O Doul! What have ya done to my name?!?
It's a cheap hack - when data is entered into the database, the single quotes cause an error to be returned. For now, I've just done a s/'/ /g on the form fields. If anyone has a better idea, just let me know!
So, how long can a review be?
I used the varchar data type for the review field in the database, and while it does take a small performance hit, you can enter in as long a review as an HTML form will allow. I think that's 32767 characters, but I could be wrong. The form will stop accepting data before the database will.
I don't see a category for the book I'm reviewing
Great! Drop a line to will@mylanders.com or nmorton@mylanders.com and I'll be glad to add a new category. You might want to explain it to me if it's a bit obscure or something.

Book-Review scripting and database done by:
Will England (will@mylanders.com)

Updated Tuesday, June 06 2000 @ 02:01pm