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fixed some defects

2008-09-12T17:11:00.000-07:00

2. A user registered with an '=' in the password field, which stopped them from logging into the editor. This has to be prevented both client side and server side. The first thing I need to do is check for this with JavaScript

- now username, password, subject and localtion password all get validated against an alphanumeric validator

3. (I'm currently working on this) There are still problems from the search, this is an SQL problem when users try to search for words less than 4 characters. I have solved this for some words such as LAW and IT, but many tutors register as ks1 2 3 ... this presents a problems, since I cant convert 2 3 to any other words in the subject column since others may use this for their subject (I'm not sure what yet though). Still looking for solutions, for now its a big issue that I need to find a work around for quickly!

fixed, all above now postfixed with the word tutor on registering, and post fixed with * when searching

However, I've just found I need to update: localtutorforum.com/Create_user_DataManager.php

The links on this are either out of date or dead..need to do this priority!

also priorityL update databse for ks1 2 and 3 tutors

one down, lots to go

2008-09-11T15:32:00.000-07:00

The following article will now stay static in the tutors guide area:
Tutors Guide
Required qualifications for Tutoring
Tutoring Attitude
Tutors Resources Exam Papers
Tutoring Requirements
Where To Tutor
Tutors Journal
Motivation Tutoring
Ascertaining Entry Behaviour
Tuition Strategies and Plans
all other articles will be sorted by date modified order after this.

The first page is a static HTML page that now point to the php page, Im not planning to add more tutoring articles to this, but list about 3/4 articles for each subject area

I will add all articles to this area, and point to users profiles from the forum and article area if they have written them

I will personally write some chemistry articles, I have a writer for maths and will continue to work together until we have a good source of quality articles

update articles in the tutors guide area dynamically

2008-09-08T13:49:00.000-07:00

I'm currently making it possible to update the articles in the tutors guide area dynamically, and all the links to other articles update, without the need to manually update them.

1) I will keep the first page static and html so I don’t loose any inbound links
2) The rest will be converted to php files, but will remain as 301 redirect just in case anything points to them
3) I wish to put all files in the local directly in to a 2D array containing: path (name), and time modified, sort by time, then display each as a link.

tutors reciprocal links

2008-09-07T14:57:00.000-07:00

Tutors seem to be very confused with the directory, and adding reciprocal links. I need a verification process that

1) the link doesn’t come from local tutor
2) the link doesn’t come from local tutor forum
3) there is a link comes form the same site they are adding
4) there is actually a link on the page the define, linking to local tutor

More for the to-do list!

2008-09-03T23:43:00.000-07:00

More for the to-do list!

There will be more tuition articles uploaded on a post on a regular basis.

The last 3 articles written should be displayed on the front page of Local Tutor, this will be done by a lst modified function.

However, I also need to change all of the article pages to php, and update to point to all file in the local folder, so that all links will be displayed on the first page.

I’m not sure I like this idea, if there are to many pages, there will be to many links on the first page, I may have to do something similar to the blog links (at the rhs) and contract the links in a monthly category, or at least something similar....Hmmm, how to categorise tutoring articles?

deactivate tutors accounts

2008-08-31T15:09:00.000-07:00

Adding to the 'to do' list

1. I need a way for users to easily deactivate their accounts. This has to be done in a manner which stops them from receiving emails from the profile, so once deactivated I wish to remove all the links section(including email), and have a large font saying - deactivated)

on clean up, remove the deactivated.
on rebuild, do not rebuild deactivated.

this makes it easy for people to see that the account is now deactivated from the profile (but may still show up on Search Engines until clean up) but also add a flag on the DB to say this user is now inactive so should no longer appear in local tutor search results.

If they wish, they should have the option to log in to the profile editor and reactivat their account.

2. A user registered with an '=' in the password field, which stopped them from logging into the editor. This has to be prevented both client side and server side. The first thing I need to do is check for this with JavaScript

3. (I'm currently working on this) There are still problems from the search, this is an SQL problem when users try to search for words less than 4 characters. I have solved this for some words such as LAW and IT, but many tutors register as ks1 2 3 ... this presents a problems, since I cant convert 2 3 to any other words in the subject column since others may use this for their subject (I'm not sure what yet though). Still looking for solutions, for now its a big issue that I need to find a work around for quickly!

updated tutors profiles for firefox 3

2008-07-31T14:27:00.000-07:00

We had to update all of the tutors profiled to look better in FireFox3

The main differance we found was that tables need to be completely defined.

Tables embbeded in tables were being shifted in FireFox3

we now define the tables as:

<TABLE class=table1 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0 width="762" >
 <TR vAlign="TOP" >
   <TD width="144" >


    <TABLE class=tableStandardb cellSpacing="0" cellPadding=0 border=0 width="134"  >
       <TR>....etc

This seems to have solved the problem :)
          <TD

2008-06-27T14:38:00.000-07:00

Plans Bugs and Projects

- There are a few known outs standing bugs we need to fix

#33: Local Tutor Editor - Links:
When adding a link, if a link is added and the 'save all' button is clicked, but the apply button isn’t, the link is blanked when closing the link tab. Although the link may be saved at first, when clicking save all within the same session, the link will be removed as the Editor now thinks it is blank

- we need to affectively do what the apply button is doing under the links tab when clicking the 'save all' button within the links tab

Tutors Blog: what is it for?

2008-06-27T13:18:00.000-07:00

Hello and welcome to our first post. We aim to provide this tutor blog to update users for information on any maintenance issues, updates or general information about Local Tutor.

If you don’t know about local tutor yet, please click the links at the side to navigate your self around the site. Local Tutor is a free site for both UK tutors and UK students, with a user friendly webpage editor for tutors, an easy tutor search box for students. There is a tuition forum for tutors and students interact so that the right match can be found, the forum also provides a helpful environment to learn out side of the tuition session.