Tonight was a final bug hunt before launching the site, I’ve asked several internal staff members and fellow programmers to test the site for me for bugs as well as design criticisms. Tonight I went through about 10-20 bugs spotted and fixed them one by one, some include:
- The nav bar, I’ve increased the size of the header again so that theres a gap between the nav links (in particular their hover top border) and the subtitle of the site. My client wanted this fixed in particular so it was good that I managed to get that done
- Feeds, the way they are parsed and added onto the news page. They were being escaped when double speech marks were used, a fix was to use the htmlspecialchars() function and then strip slashes on the form. The process was a bit tedious in pinpointing how to correctly parse the thing
- Logging in system, made it work more smoothly now,it will now take you back to the original page you were on
- Logging in system, I’ve also ensured that admin pages are not accessible unless you’re logged in AND you are an admin, I will also do some htaccess on this folder just for added protection
- Include more bookmarking sites on the summary pages
- Fixed the links on the meta box
- Sorted the headlinks, turned them to pink instead of white (since white was the main font so it made sense that way)
- Delete news, that works now. Twas a few typos in the code
- Fixed the comment approval section, was suppose to display “no comments required approving” but it didnt, was a problem with the query, fixed now though
That should be about it for the bug fixes, tommorow I will refresh the database so the id numbers are all nice and new and after that we’ll be able to enjoy a nice site launch. Hopefully.
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