I'm currently writing some software and I'm trying to code the front page.

I'm thinking of 2 things.

1. after user successfully logged in, on the FrontPage he gets list of top(popular, trending, something like that) posts based on the topics(tags, categories he's following).
and
2. the Nairaland style. which is why I want to know, are the posts moved manually by Admins or is there any scheduling script or cron job done.

gurus in the house your thoughts needed.

ArewaTech1:
I'm currently writing some software and I'm trying to code the front page.

I'm thinking of 2 things.

1. after user successfully logged in, on the FrontPage he gets list of top(popular, trending, something like that) posts based on the topics(tags, categories he's following).
and
2. the Nairaland style. which is why I want to know, are the posts moved manually by Admins or is there any scheduling script or cron job done.

gurus in the house your thoughts needed.

Front page post are moved manually

ArewaTech1:
I'm currently writing some software and I'm trying to code the front page.

I'm thinking of 2 things.

1. after user successfully logged in, on the FrontPage he gets list of top(popular, trending, something like that) posts based on the topics(tags, categories he's following).
and
2. the Nairaland style. which is why I want to know, are the posts moved manually by Admins or is there any scheduling script or cron job done.

gurus in the house your thoughts needed.

This can be achieved by designing your database properly
1. When you query the database for maybe the most viewed content, it returns a list of topics with the highest means it's the trending topic.. That's just one of the simplest ways in achieving that.. Google works with more complex tagging approach.
In summary, you have to use Php or any preferred server side scripting language to count the number of viewers on every topic, you can also add more parameter like most replied topics.. Those stats gives you on what's trending.

2. This could be achieved using your database design, for instance.
Let's assume a table name topics
Topics has fields
Id number
Title string
Date date/time
Time date/time
Frontpage boolean or string


Now an admin panel will be created to have access to this table
Let's assume you have two topics uploaded in your table
It looks like
1. Is buhari dead, 23/2/2099, 4am, false
2. Am I stupid, 24/3/2099,5pm, false...



Now if the admin wishes to make topic with the ID of 1 to make front page, all he needs to do is to run an UPDATE query to change the field called frontpage which was set to false by default, now change it to true.


Finally on the front page, you simply another query to display only topics where their frontpage is true...


I hope you understand my little tutorial.

Also before I forget,, it always has to be paginated as your data will always get bigger in future.. DONT worry Jquery can easily do this for you.

ezechinwa2:


This can be achieved by designing your database properly
1. When you query the database for maybe the most viewed content, it returns a list of topics with the highest means it's the trending topic.. That's just one of the simplest ways in achieving that.. Google works with more complex tagging approach.
In summary, you have to use Php or any preferred server side scripting language to count the number of viewers on every topic, you can also add more parameter like most replied topics.. Those stats gives you on what's trending.

2. This could be achieved using your database design, for instance.
Let's assume a table name topics
Topics has fields
Id number
Title string
Date date/time
Time date/time
Frontpage boolean or string


Now an admin panel will be created to have access to this table
Let's assume you have two topics uploaded in your table
It looks like
1. Is buhari dead, 23/2/2099, 4am, false
2. Am I stupid, 24/3/2099,5pm, false...



Now if the admin wishes to make topic with the ID of 1 to make front page, all he needs to do is to run an UPDATE query to change the field called frontpage which was set to false by default, now change it to true.


Finally on the front page, you simply another query to display only topics where their frontpage is true...


I hope you understand my little tutorial.

Also before I forget,, it always has to be paginated as your data will always get bigger in future.. DONT worry Jquery can easily do this for you.

Thanks man, you made me happy this evening. God Bless You.

ArewaTech1:

Thanks man, you made me happy this evening. God Bless You.

though won't work with just triggering 1 and 0 if I were u.

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directonpc:
though won't work with just triggering 1 and 0 if I were u.

Could you please be more specific

ArewaTech1:

Could you please be more specific

I am a programmer that loves doing things automatically and as a matter of fact, my website runs by itself with just little monituring. if you ever want to do something like this, dont make front page post by just the number of views or comment, instead, add a front page reccommendation button to every post so as soon as the number of front page rec6mmendation exceed the required number and it has quite enough views comments already, it will automatically move to fp... I know you dont wanna see dumb posts that has hundreds of views on fp, just saying. Op

0luwatope:
I am a programmer that loves doing things automatically and as a matter of fact, my website runs by itself with just little monituring. if you ever want to do something like this, dont make front page post by just the number of views or comment, instead, add a front page reccommendation button to every post so as soon as the number of front page rec6mmendation exceed the required number and it has quite enough views comments already, it will automatically move to fp... I know you dont wanna see dumb posts that has hundreds of views on fp, just saying. Op

Great, I'm also thinking of a way in which the FP populates itself depending on what Boards/Categories the user follows, but the thing is that each and every user will have a different FP(it makes me think otherwise).

But I'll finally choose the one I thinks suits best, depending on recommendations here by websmasters and gurus

The Nairaland Featuring system is quite simple, and this is how I think it works.

It is a simple blog-like system, that accepts PostTitle, PostUrl, FeaturedTime, and probably logs the ModName.

The PostTitle accepts bbcodes, the PostUrl can be altered too, the FeaturedTime is shown only when paginated, and the (Logged) mod name can be seen only by the superMods.

TOmmyJidex:
The Nairaland Featuring system is quite simple, and this is how I think it works.

It is a simple blog-like system, that accepts PostTitle, PostUrl, FeaturedTime, and probably logs the ModName.

The PostTitle accepts bbcodes, the PostUrl can be altered too, the FeaturedTime is shown only when paginated, and the (Logged) mod name can be seen only by the superMods.

gbam! Ope there is your answer. No rocket science in it.

TOmmyJidex:
The Nairaland Featuring system is quite simple, and this is how I think it works.

It is a simple blog-like system, that accepts PostTitle, PostUrl, FeaturedTime, and probably logs the ModName.

The PostTitle accepts bbcodes, the PostUrl can be altered too, the FeaturedTime is shown only when paginated, and the (Logged) mod name can be seen only by the superMods.

I think you hit the nail, if u check the topics on the front page compare to the url when u hover on it,it shows there is a mechanical system involved probably for seo purposes, i believe alll topics have a front page button attached to it also with an ability to alter to the heading.

Quite easy, I use something similar to this script via the LASU Forum link on my signature and it works by mods or supermods suggesting the post to be moved to FP then it will be confirmed by the Supermods

ArewaTech1:
I'm currently writing some software and I'm trying to code the front page.

I'm thinking of 2 things.

1. after user successfully logged in, on the FrontPage he gets list of top(popular, trending, something like that) posts based on the topics(tags, categories he's following).
and
2. the Nairaland style. which is why I want to know, are the posts moved manually by Admins or is there any scheduling script or cron job done.

gurus in the house your thoughts needed.

My brother Frontpages are not automated,,,,,those ogbolo mods moved anything they like to the frontpage...