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SerenadeCMS: Part 1… A
Posted by MrSaints in Projects, Spotlight Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:39 5 Comments
As I promised, i’ll be making a new post in continuation to my SerenadeCMS 2.0 streak
But due to the lack of time I have and the lack of ideas I have on making the post interesting, I decided to take a break from that episode and hopefully something will strike me once I get something in mind. As the title states, Part 1A. Clearly this is not the actual continuation to the previous post on Serenade but I just decided to post a few (or 1, for now) images that some people might have forgotten or never seen before, but clearly it was one of the first few steps I took in creating a successful CMS, which I guess, led me to where I am today (as cheesy as it sounds).
And like many bloggers, lets communicate with the audience! So, if you like to see more, then drop a reply below this post and say along the lines of, “WE WANT MORE”. Who know’s what I might do! So have fun, and sorry I haven’t been doing much lately, I’m a slacker!
One more thing, as there were quite a few suggestions lately about setting up a forum for the hostings, I taken the liberty to set one up at http://www.frozonenetworks.com/, drop by when you get the time
Its still in the progress of being setup fully! VOTE THE PICTURE 5 STARS. OR ELSE.
No Post Title.
Posted by MrSaints in Projects, Spotlight Monday, 24 August 2009 01:42 6 Comments
Hey! I couldn’t think of an article title this time, so I’m just leaving it as NO POST TITLE! How original is that? Anyways I need to update my todo list soon but for now I have a basic idea of what I should be doing… I think. For one, I need to catch up with all my school work and maybe revision. Get Bankai’s site done, DMS CMS fixed up with the SHOUTcast. stats thingy, fix up my hostings and maintain the forums.
Hmm… where to start. Right, I just remembered, I was designing a layout earlier adapted from a few sources and images/stocks taken from D.A as well as SXC. Finished it up in GIMP after a few mess arounds with Photoshop. It’ll be my new and awesome hosting layout I will be using! Completely from scratch besides the pre-made and taken stocks (layout on left).
Right now, I’m listening to a bit of trance and house like I like to at 1.35am =D. Enough Meatspinning people for the day lol. And boy, the hit counter for our GNAA Last Measure is still going up even after removing the unnecessary links from Facebook, Twitter and relevant websites.
I’ll be updating my blog slightly more often once I get the time, tell me what you want to see. Besides that, I got school coming up in like 2 days? So I guess I will be a hell of a much busy (not like I’m not already busy enough). Also, I just realized this blog post taken 3 categories. Woots woots. In other news, my bro Jose is setting up a private server for MapleStory v0.62, if your interested in helping him out, please do contact him. I lack the time to support or help much so it’ll be nice if someone could. He already has a dedicated server up.
I’ll be working on my OdinMS Rankings and AresGD once again when I get the time, for now, I’m going to be ditching PHP for a while and go back to messing with Cinema4D. See you around.
AEROSOLSTUDIOS Layout?
Posted by MrSaints in Projects Monday, 18 May 2009 16:11 No Comments

Well here it is, I decided to make a blog with a sneak peak of the blog’s future design.
I have an urge to merge the design style with the one I currently have cause I ran out of ideas on the placement of content on my older one, at the same time I think the present one is plain, so MERGE!
Anyways you can check out my Flickr shit on the homepage of the website, its my flickr streamer and most likely I’ll be adding some pics there once in a while, yess there are some pics dating back to ages ago like when I was in yr4 or some shit I think, anyways. See ya, back to History Revision.
Cheesy but keeping it simple
Walkthrough SerenadeCMS 2.0 – History
Posted by MrSaints in Projects, Spotlight Sunday, 17 May 2009 23:11 13 Comments

So, some developers or people have been hearing all this nonsense about SerenadeCMS.
For those that know what I’m talking about, I bet you didn’t know about SerenadeCMS 2.0?
Well, I decided to walkthrough it today, nothing much but I suppose it goes somewhere rather than no where.
To start with, SerenadeCMS = Serenade Content Management System. It was a CMS for MapleStory, specifically OdinMS engines, but that was back in the days when I used to work with private servers, no harm done I suppose?

The original SerenadeCMS.
Well it all started out back in the KitKatMS Days, I volunteered myself as a Web Developer and started coding this CMS in XHTML with PHP as its backend. It was thanks to RaGEZONE that I have basically discovered this server and the great owner that accepted me and bugged me day and night to finish the CMS.
So thats basically the first ever generation made. And no it was not coded in any particular methods or style. Back then I did not make use of OOP, it was all basically shoving in snippets after snippets, but all I cared about was that I spent 4 hard days on it with solid effort without any help. The results were fantastic!
People were more or less attracted to the server because of the website! I sponsored the VPS for the server and it all went great, not till it closed that is, but that doesn’t matter now.
The first version was kept simple.
It did not have MySQL based confi
gurations, it was all in scripts editable through the site by using PHP fwrite and fopen. Yes, I know… This was rather quite a redundant and insecure technique, but the current Serenade CMS goes a long way to what it was before.
As I was saying, the old SerenadeCMS, only had manually configured pages, a simp
le ranking that I heavily modded for security, login script as well as control panel to edit settings
and view characters and such. Besides this I even threw in my Dynamic Avatar Signature. For those that don’t know what the heck I’m going on about, the image on the right is basically one of the older FSDAS Versions, it is dynamic thanks to PHP GD obviously. Simple ain’t it?
Well, the benefits of the Serenade project brought me to making use of Subversion and development of mPanel.
Come to think about it, it wasn’t that bad after all apart from the terrible CSS and backend
One thing I do recall was that this CMS had a lot of research and trial runs put into it to make it what it was and what it will be in the future. For starters, I have first engineered SerenadeCMS with an idea in mind of moving forward and building it to be practically an application, this is Web 2.0.
For starters, the login script was based upon jQuery’s POST XMLHTTPRequest method that sent all the form
content to a specified .PHP file, it will then be processed and if the login is true the file (e.g. logincheck.php) will echo ‘true’, if not ‘false’. The script will process these return results and output an error or a redirect (NOTE: If the login is true, the script sets a session for the login too). Although I do advise if you wish to do the same thing, make use of json and don’t use post, avoid post. Use GET.
For the rankings, I followed a similiar technique except the search would load a page ‘ranking.php?n=FORM FIELD CONTENT HERE’, so everything they searched something in the box, jQuery would fetch lets say, #charactername and replace it into loading ranking.php (e.g. load(‘ranking.php?n=’+fieldVar)). Ranking.php will basically have a PHP $_GET function retrieving the value correspondent to ‘n’ and return the results. Similiarly ranking.php can be accessed alone, but Ajax just makes it easier since they don’t have to continuosly reload the page for different content.
Another thing I utilize was jQuery tooltips to display the character information (e.g. Current Location), it made a lot of difference and effect upon the audience. Although a dilemma I encounteered during this time was trying to make it compatible with browsers such as IE. But that was no issue overtime thanks to FORUMS.
And finally, Thank God I realize the wonders of true CSS web layouts, or I would be stuck designing crappy table-based websites like the old SerenadeCMS.
jQuery’s Website - http://www.jquery.com
Well I guess this is the 1st out of the 3 articles about SerenadeCMS.
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