Website: 2004

Webmasters

Students:

• Emil - main webmaster, PHP scripting, theme, graphics, content management
• Ohm - content entering/editing, image editing
• Jim - data entering

Advisors:

• Kristyn Kapetanovic, Coordinator
• Richard Chen

How this Website Works

• Every web page is written in PHP.
• Most of the content is stored in a MySQL database. This makes it possible to easily manage the theme since the content is separated from the layout.
• The look-and-feel of this website is stored in a CSS file which provides a central place to change how text displays.
• Although all normal users would see is the final product, this site has a lot of neat administration features. Having great administration functions allows administrators to quickly add nicer and more organized content for the user's benefit.

The Theme

The yellow-gold theme resembles the colors of Purdue University, our biggest sponsor and local college.

 

Menus

Menus are generated automatically by PHP script. This is an example of how a menu is defined:

<?php
makeMenu("Team Stuff", array(
	array("Photos","photos"),
	array("Team Members","members"),
	array("Attendance","attendance"),
	array("Forums","http://www.boilerinvasion.org/forums/")
	)
);
?>

Search

The search is done by redirecting the search request from this website to Google and adding "site:boilerinvasion.org" to the end of the Google search. This tells Google to only search pages within boilerinvasion.org.

Cool Image Effects

The website had cool image pixelate effects that were done by a combination of javascript and Microsoft's pixelate image filter. These effects were only visible in Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

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