What? So instead cover all the keyboard characters? Exactly how are you doing it?

I guess that would work but that's a lot to type up......

I'm using a php function called strtr which translates characters, and I'm using an array to hold all of the "translations". and as far as I know, there's no wild card

I couldn't use anything else b/c then even the html that it gets replaced with would get filtered and I wouldn't want that....

Before "translating characters", replace anything that isn't a used character with something to represent a fake crate.

wait a minute. running every character of the cavecode through a switch thing.. I don't think all that extra work for the server is worth it. how many caves would have invalid characters like that anyway?

You don't need to run every character through a switch thing, and even if you did, it wouldn't take that long. It's like this, to find out if a character isn't a used character, create a string of all the used characters, and call the php-equivalent of the "contains" method on the string for each character.

I don't know what I'm talking about, but really, whatever it is, I'm doubt it's all that hard to find a way to do.

there probably might be some php function like that out there but I don't know it. but I didn't think it was such a big deal because I didn't see a reason why anyone would add alt characters to their caves.

but still, is it even a big deal?

Well clearly, there's at least one cave that displays incorrectly because of it.
I think it's important that the cave's map representation be accurate.

Ugh. The Cavelist Map Generator isn't as nice as Marz's. Make the pictures bigger, and perhaps put some water behind the objects if needed.

I was planning on making an alternative full-res one, but there is very little demand for one. maybe some day...

I at least found the small images much more usefull for seeing the bigger picture. If they were too small it would be silly, but I think somewhere near this size is the most useful.

How do you add a name to the caveist

by searching it.

Gasp. You're using my patented search-to-add mechanism! Lawsuit.

hey did you realize that we sent a bot after your cave search just the other day, updating it with all the names in our CaveList?

thanks!

Really? That's cool. I forgot I was even hosting CaveSearch until I got an email from shos. I'm considering adding some neat features. If you like I could host it on your server and use your database, so if I disappear again you still have all the stuff you need.

that would be cool

lol you gave me access to your database once, and I kept the info all this time, and then I finally tried to use it a few weeks/months ago and I couldn't connect.

Well, it's been quite some time! I have no idea what I've done with the database since.

UPDATES: In my quest for making more stuff show up as the title of the page, I made it so that when you look at a name in the Cavelist it's title and author show up in the page's title. I also made the coding a bit more efficient, which makes it a lot easier to make edits to, on my side. I also noticed that the massive-username-addition page for mods didn't insert names with all the new info like terrain type or dimensions. So I fixed that...

Another cool new thing is that you can type into the Quick Search the name of a cave, and if it finds exactly one match, then you'll be redirected to the name in which that cave is uploaded to. you have to write it exactly or else you'll get thrown into the related search results but the cool thing is that you can type in, for example, "snowflake_of_doom" when in reality, the cave is called "Snowflake of Doom", and you'd still get redirected to cavetester, which is where it is uploaded to.

but it will only work if it can only find one instance of that name. For example, there are several caves called "test", so you won't get redirected if you type that in...

why not have it so that, if there are indeed more than one cave with the same name, it'll give you options, as in:

testby username
testby username2
testby bla
testby superduperuser
testby ahahah

because you get related search results if it can't find anything, and as long as you're not looking up something as common as "test", then you already should be able to see all of the names with the same title

for example, if you do a search for DELUXE_SPIKE_CAVE:
http://www.interguild.org/hatpc/cavelist.php?user=DELUXE_SPIKE_CAVE

cool new thing: type in a username using spaces instead of underscores, and it'll redirect you to the correct spelling if it finds a cave on the correct spelling. This check is prioritized above titles.

so now if you search "good caver", you'll be sent to "good_caver"