google ig and my yahoo

[queerfm]

Hi i am looking for a program free or paid that i can get to make my own site that allows people to have there own home page. Like windows Live/ MY Yahoo and Google Ig

Can any one help.
Thanks

[boxxertrumps]

for editing the html directly, you would need a php or other SSI module in place, like quixplorer...

if you just want them to customise a template, you could create a database and form with the persons name, nodeA, nodeA-on/off, nodeB, nodeB-on/off Etc...
then have the nodes echoed into the source code...
im not sure how to do this, but i do know its possible...

[queerfm]

no i want to do this http://www.google.com/ig
or http://www.live.com or even my yahoo

[thetestingsite]

The way Google (and I think Yahoo) does there's is by using a mix of AJAX, PHP, and Drag and Drop Javascripts. Not sure exactly how they do it, but that is what they use. As far as Windows Live, I didn't see exactly what their website was all about.

[boxxertrumps]

you could ask google how they do it, they might give you a few pointers.

[djr33]

There actually is a google webtoolkit thing around... might help.

For layout, that's just complex javascript and AJAX allowing it to be live.

The php behind it is the most important part; you need to have a database, etc. and variables stored therein.

For example, you could have a field in the table called "messages" and a value of "1" means to display, value of "2" means to display the minimized version, and "3" means hide.

This is complex in scale and events, but not really that much in coding.

In short, figure out AJAX, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, and some other stuff...

There isn't really something available, since its such a specific thing, so you could try something like a content manager, but not sure how much that would help.

Really, this is a huge thing that you want, so either find a creative way to do what you want with something that does exist, or learn how to code it all yourself (with some help from everyone here, but not that we've necessarily got time to code it ourselves). Short of that, there's always google.... search... you might get lucky.

Realistically, I'd recommend trying to scale back a bit, and then it might be manageable.

The most important thing is figuring out what you want and the logic behind it. The actual code behind it is easy (relatively) once you've worked out how it works and how the logic works.

[queerfm]

well i now have the ablity to allow people to look at rss feeds, and move things around. but i need to find away to allow things like google widgets on the page.

Take a look you will see what i mean @
http://queerfm.net/dragable-boxes/

[djr33]

Not bad. That's pretty cool.

However, now you need a database storing that exact setup for each and every user, including preferences as to position, minimized or not, what to show, which rss.... etc.

But I'll say I'm a bit surprised... looks really good. But, again, the catch is the behind the scenes data storage, including a user account system.

[queerfm]

the way the script uses is that you can access it from 1 computer, i have not worked out how to give users there own login and password so that the server stores the data.

At the moment it sets a cookie on the users computer.

So at this stage it only works on one computer and that computer must have and allow cookies.

If any one can help that would be GREAT

[djr33]

Ah.

That's cool then.

However, it's quite pointless for any real use, because cookies are frequently cleared, so everything would be lost.

If you're up for a non-official, user-based system, you could also store everything in a database by IP address, though this creates issues for people on shared computers, public areas with computers, etc.

And both solutions don't offer a way to allow the user to move from location to location.

The only way to do that is with a database system.

It would be cool if that worked, but I understand that it's a bit of work to get it there, so you might want to start with this.