MOAIP: It's time to get finished already...

[~K~]

Budman,

Don't get me wrong he doesn't own the info but he has all of it as he was working on a searchable database for it ...

Henrik,

You are 100% correct because a lot of those images were donated by JCFers to K.E to create the original database. When FMIC told us they owned it because they bought it we had a bit of a pissing match over it. At one point we had jumped servers and ended up on Jacksons server at AMIC. Shortly before the sale we moved to chicagowebs. Thank got we did because it ight have been assumed they would own the JCF domain as well because it was on the same server

[jackson1]

Don't get me wrong he doesn't own the info but he has all of it as he was working on a searchable database for it ...

Would that be a database like... put in a serial and DING! out comes a full spec sheet + pics? There possibly can't be enough info available for this to be true, or?

I'm also wondering how the interface to the MOAIP was planned to be. Would it be an offline application? Or an online html driven thing?

[~K~]

It was more or less being able to search based on options to models etc. Pick a set of options and each model that has given options pops up or pick a model and all options for that model come up etc

[Budman68]

Is it possible that someone who knows what they're doing with this kind of database, to get it from Todd and take on the project?

[VitaminG]

it'd be cool if someone could. Plenty of folks have offered in the past, but Todd has been reticent to hand it over (or accept help with it, for that matter)

It is, after all, just a database of pics & specs.

[xenophobe]

No matter how much work it will be converting the model spec info from static HTML to a searchable database, or to rescan and replace old pictures with new scans or pictures, I'm positive there are enough people here willing to work hard and dilligently until it was accomplished.

It is a GREAT reference, and I know I sure miss it.

Any PHP programmers here?

[NextInLine]

I'm not advanced but I think I can work on it if that's needed I know php, mysql, html etc.

[Tekky]

Kev is right, I don't come here much at all anymore. From time to time, I'll come to this forum for some information. I stumbled across this thread and reading through, there are some things that need to be set straight.

1) As far as I am personally concerned the MoAIP is dead. I don't own the data, it has always been the property of the JCF. Though, I DO own my work on it.

2) I had a working application. Problem was that it worked from my server, but not the JCF's server. I was working on that problem when the board was cut-over. After the cutover, my access to administration and background tables was removed.

3) I am not "reticent to hand it over". I was never asked to "hand it over". There was a version on the JCF server, however I do not know what happened to it. The working version I had on my site is being converted for use of a future feature there.

4) The MoAIP I had created was a drop-down menu that one could use to see a spec-sheet and picture(s) of each model. Future iterations planned were to have the user add a couple of features and then search the database for matches.

5) As far as refusing help, I have always felt that too many cooks spoil the brew with things like this. I'm not an expert at PHP and MySQL coding, but offered to do this learn and to offer something to the JCF.

Obviously I don't have much, if anything, to do with this forum anymore, so it's free-reign for someone to work on.

[Newc]

Well then, it looks like the Search Engine is going to get a workout.

I'll start a new thread to start collecting the info, which will be a group effort. Finalization into whatever format will have to be done by someone with the coding skills (certainly not me - I know HTML, and I can make Excel/Quattro do some stuff, but that's it).

[jacksonaxes]

why not start with the info you have accumulated, let others add to it, and we as a group will decide what is valid information, as far as we know?

[xenophobe]

*bump*

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[Grim]

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