So we have the release 1.1 and after the initial rush of minor bugs (fixed) the forum has become rather quiet.
Here is a time to reflect on the project so far and maybe a chance for a small amount of thought towards the future.
what do you think of the new implemetations used between 1.07 and the new 1.1 versions.?
What could be better with those ideas?
What could be added to improve the project in your eyes?
You are right... the forum has become pretty quiet in the last week.
I only came along at 1.1 Beta 11 so I honestly can't give much input in comparing it to 1.07 but I can say, it looks like the entire community has put in a lot of hard work on this so far with suggestions to Ryan. And great thanks to Ryan for making this what it is so far!
As far as improving the project I made a mod for the only real improvement I saw neccessary in this so far, and your calculators addon filled the other need I was looking for.
I was thinking that maybe changing the forums around a bit might help a bit. Organizing the forums into categories similar to phpbb.com's forums. This might help organize things a little better and spark some more conversation on the forums, generate more suggestions and possibly some development of templates and mods.
As always, just suggestions.. I'm totally happy with everything the way it is.. This rocks just fine how it is!
I'm satisfied about the new version.
I like to see some extension for user accounts.
I'm not sure if this was on 1.07 or not but I'm experiencing long/slow loading listingsearch.php if I have 'Allow searching' and 'Two pulldown for min/max ++' enable for the 'price' field.
On my home development site i open most reasonable searchs including 3 x seperate feature search's, state, town, price, zip, structure, type, roof, walls this does not apear to slow it down alot.
I sugest you check the type of search you are allowing.
Be careful with the use of min/max searchs best used for price only as this is a slower search method as is written on the form editor.
Try differnet search pattens etc and you will find that it will speed up noticeably.
With that version, min/max is not a problem at all.
I don't think it's a good idea to make queries when a user is not ready to search. If the database is big, and maybe a dozen of people hit the site at the same time, the site would be jammed.
Building thoose two boxes really shouldnt be that big of a problem for the server. If you want to do some testing for me, IM or Email me and i will send you some changes to make, to see if we can speed it up. Ideal who ever is testing, should be doing this on a large datbase what is slow to build the search page.
I don't have a big database yet. But I'm willing to test it out.
I'll email you shortly after this.
Thanks for the fix, Ryan.