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NEW Killboard system project (PHP Developers/designers needed)
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NickyYo
modro
The Initiative.
#1 - 2012-08-07 15:29:26 UTC
I have many ideas for a new killboard system that is simple yet sattisfying for the user, i plan to code it from scratch but still use existing killboard database killmail information.

When i look at existing killboards they are all the same, and there is simply to much information that the user does not care about in my opinion.

Ideas, thoughts and advice on this are welcome, who wants to help with this? It will be a GitHub based project and the experience with working with other people will be gained from this; one of the reasons why i want to do this.

I plan to start looking at designing this in 2 to 4 weeks.

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Heinrich Hertz
Genstar Reloaded
Ribbit.
#2 - 2012-08-08 00:15:28 UTC
I would like a way to download a bunch of killmails to use offline.
NickyYo
modro
The Initiative.
#3 - 2012-08-08 10:12:03 UTC  |  Edited by: NickyYo
Heinrich Hertz wrote:
I would like a way to download a bunch of killmails to use offline.


I would also like this, there is a way to scrape mails of existing killboards but that is a LOT of killmails, and if one did scrape i'm guessing the said killboard sites will keep banning your IP's. The other method is hacking but that is bad.

I also highly doubt that any killboard owner will release a database dump of killmails as they are mostly making real cash on the monopoly through online advertisement..

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Peter Powers
Terrorists of Dimensions
HORSE-KILLERS
#4 - 2012-08-08 11:52:34 UTC
"When i look at existing killboards they are all the same"
most killboards are the same killboard software (EDK), doesn't make 'em the same killboard.
most killboards are owned by a corp or alliance.

some have their own killboard software, sometimes the software is not public available though.

the only two killboards that have really huge sets of killmails
are battleclinic and eve-kill

battleclinic runs on their own software, and yeah they probably won't give you their killmail data.
eve-kill runs on a modified EDK, and as with most EDK boards offers feeds from which you can pull the killmails.

besides EDK, there are also a few other opensource killboards available / in development.
to name a few:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pykb/ decloaked, a python based killboard
https://github.com/Kingboard/Kingboard Kingboard, a PHP/MongoDB based killboard
https://github.com/cvweiss/zKillBoardhttps://github.com/cvweiss/zKillBoard
zKillboard, PHP / MySQL based.

they all are different in features, look, feel and code than EDK.

also, you wrote you want to keep the existing database, which i assume is EDK, and with that premise your new board will have quite a few of the same problems that EDK has.

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NickyYo
modro
The Initiative.
#5 - 2012-08-08 11:56:49 UTC
Peter Powers wrote:

also, you wrote you want to keep the existing database, which i assume is EDK, and with that premise your new board will have quite a few of the same problems that EDK has.


Thanks for the reply, i will check those links out.
As for the database you may be right what could be done is a script to convert one database to another.

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