A fairly easy yet very educational project on PHP would be to do an

Order By: (fill in specifications here).

Project for the skillsets. This isnt projected just towards photics but the entire community. I'd do it myself but I'm in the middle of a few projects myself: Pet-guide, Secondary Paths guide, and the Game Contest which is starting to press more and more on me, I hope I can get it done!

I'm confused. You want to do a PHP project to help organize the skills? That is a great idea. Yet, this is a huge project.

The Game Contest is the most important. Skills are going to be choppy for the next three weeks. I heard that ArenaNet was doing another rebalance, probably this week. Then, there will be more data to collect once the game is released. So... I'd rather see you enter the Web Game Design Contest.

Let the chaos of Factions Release pass, then we can brainstorm the best way to handle this problem. I did find something neat that was JavaScript...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/activeui

...but I didn't know how much value it truly added to the skill lists. A PHP solution would be better. Yet... it is more important to me to keep the naming system intact. I like the simple links to the skills...

http://photics.com/sprint

So... the project could take three forms...

• A simple PHP link list. The pages would stay as is, but the PHP system would sort the links for easy accessability. The Good - Easiest to create. The Bad - Double updating, as skill list data and skill pages would be separate.
• An entire PHP system - Idealy, there should only be one place where the skill data is updated. The PHP system should automatically create a list from that data. The Good - This would make it much easier to maintain skill lists. The Bad - This system is a lot harder to create. Plus, it would be separate from existing systems.
• Spreadsheet / Grid MOD for Wordpress - Something that intergrates into WordPress would be the best solution. Yet, it seems incredibly complicated to create. The Good - In addition to being the best possible solution, the people who work on this project would get awesome recognition outside the Guild Wars community. The Mod could be released as open source. The Bad - Did I mention this would be incredibly complicated to create?

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Well it would be PHP with a MySQL database, all the skill page names themselves would remain the same, but you'd just click a little button and on the necromancer skill page you could order by Factions/Prophecies and various other ways. Kind of like how they do it on ebay...order by (Time ending, price, date added), I've done it before when i created a CD database for personal use, but it got deleated when my friend decided to stop paying for webhosting.

That is the easiest way to solve the problem. It would ultimately mean updating two systems, but eh... the user wouldn't know the difference. All they would know is... "HEY, THIS IS COOL!"

Heh... as long as there were no errors in the data.

Well... I say finish your game first... that's the only project listed that gives you a chance to win a prize.

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i'm really behind schedule on that hehe. Made a few graphics and have it written out but not coding of flashing

I was thinking of doing something similar.. it would be fairly easy to set up using JavaScript, as it can look at the names of tags and you could also add attributes for JavaScript to look at so it could re-organize a table. No double data, no extra server load, easy as pie

I think a JavaScript solution would be best... yet, I'm not clear on what you mean here. Did you see the program from sourceforge? Is it like that or do you have something else in mind?

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