History Of ExtremeSkins

[TheItalianStallion]

lol

Don't you mean ""?

[MassSkinsFan]

Hey MSF (the newer MSF) - my understanding, as I've posted earlier, is that the team wasn't particularly interested in adding custom hacks to their commercial software package - the reason being, it can cause instability at some point in the future, and also there is the risk of data loss during upgrades. Hacks are risky, and the team didn't want to take the risk. Can't really blame them.

That's my understanding.

Thanks MTH. It's understandable but sad. Based on a few of the earlier posts I'm curious to see if someone else tries to pick this up and run with it.

[Mark The Homer]

Well, they'd better get started because they have a whole lot of data entry to do.

And a fancy search routine to write.

Any volunteers?

[zskins]

Thanks MTH. It's understandable but sad. Based on a few of the earlier posts I'm curious to see if someone else tries to pick this up and run with it.

Well, they'd better get started because they have a whole lot of data entry to do.

And a fancy search routine to write.

I have already backed up redskinsdb.com website to my computer in case he doesn't renew his domain and all that data is gone.

No fancy search routine needed. The site can be done in simple ASP with MS Access as the data source. It can also be done in PHP and MySql which I am not good with.

If someone can compile the data in Excel spreadsheet I can import it into a DB. I just don't have time to do both.

[Novato]

Thanks for the memory lane, I'm not really active in posting, but Extremeskins has been my home page since the beginning and it still does.
I've witnessed a lot of what's stated above as well as the continuous growth of this website.
I don't know but I'm probably the oldest non US member of this site and I've kept the same nickname (Novato = Rookie) since day 1 (in honor of Champ Bailey great rookie season).
I have not have the pleasure of meeting none of you guys, I attended the Houston game what, 2 years ago, but did not meet any ES members, I was wearing my ES cap (hey I still have it, as well as 3 black ES T-Shirts... color is pretty faded now but I love them).
I've some some friends depart this life (sadly) and some friends just depart, but we still here strong as ever.
Long Life for ExtremeSkins.com

Mauricio Alayola a.k.a. Novato
from Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche. Mexico.

[Mark The Homer]

I have already backed up redskinsdb.com website to my computer in case he doesn't renew his domain and all that data is gone.

No fancy search routine needed. The site can be done in simple ASP with MS Access as the data source. It can also be done in PHP and MySql which I am not good with.

If someone can compile the data in Excel spreadsheet I can import it into a DB. I just don't have time to do both.

Are you sure you have all the data? I grabbed some data too, A through Z like a year ago, put it all in a text file, but I don't have the "years they played" which is kind of important. And I don't know how to get it, other than one player at a time.

I also don't have birth date and high school and birth place. All that stuff is listed somewhere else and I don't know how to get to it.

[wermol]

Such an awesome post. Loved reading about the history of the website.

[zskins]

Are you sure you have all the data? I grabbed some data too, A through Z like a year ago, put it all in a text file, but I don't have the "years they played" which is kind of important. And I don't know how to get it, other than one player at a time.

I also don't have birth date and high school and birth place. All that stuff is listed somewhere else and I don't know how to get to it.

I just uploaded what I downloaded to my website:

http://theredskins.ghznetworks.com/skinsdb/player

Just don't press the search button as it will re-direct you to his website since the code under the search button is still pointing to redskinsdb.com (root).

If you just press the player by letter you will see that all the data did get downloaded -hopefully.

But, let me know if it is missing anything though.

Shouldn't DH or Blade already have this db? And do we know how out dated it is?

[Mark The Homer]

That's the same data I have, but as you can see, it's missing the years they played.

But if you actually use the site to access the db, it includes the years they played and the birth date, birth place, and HS

[zskins]

That's the same data I have, but as you can see, it's missing the years they played.

But if you actually use the site to access the db, it includes the years they played and the birth date, birth place, and HS

Here is the screen shot from my upload. I am seeing the info on the left hand side.

[Mark The Homer]

So you're saying when his site goes down, you can still access all that via your stand alone download?

[zskins]

So you're saying when his site goes down, you can still access all that via your stand alone download?

Yes as long as you don't use the search button.

For the search button to work I would need to recreate the db and redo the search code.

The program I used queried the db on that website and converted it into static web pages. All that info would need to be put back into a DB. But the important part is, at least for right now, we have the data and we can rebuild.

[Mark The Homer]

...
The program I used queried the db on that website and converted it into static web pages. ....

Exactly. So what you're saying is, once that db goes down, the "years they played" goes down with it.

So I don't see the value of your download.

Maybe I'm missing something....

[zskins]

Exactly. So what you're saying is, once that db goes down, the "years they played" goes down with it.

So I don't see the value of your download.

Maybe I'm missing something....

Yes. I think.... I have a page on every player that played for the Skins now with all the stats like I posted in my image earlier. (Look at the URL in that image it is sitting on my website domain).

So if the other site's db goes down it won't matter. A query has already been done on all of the players and the data has been posted to one HTML page per player that was in the DB. Static. I now have 1600 pages of data that use to be in the DB. Which I would need to put back into a DB if we really want this project to move forward.

I hope that helps.

[SpringfieldSkins]

That was an awesome read Mark.


It really makes appreciate what you guys, especially TK, do for this website. Maybe it's just me but it seems that TK is shouldering a lot of the load these days. He updated our smileys and he's been making improvements here and there. Real good work.