Fanlisting Conversions
Jun 6, 2006 Author: Meredith | Filed under: internetThanks to inspiration from the Quilting Bee message board, I spent today messing about with fanlistings. I had tried before to convert to Enthusiast 3 and it broke horribly, so I gave up and went back to Fanbase. This time I managed to get all seven of my owned FL’s converted successfully from Fanbase to Enth3, and tonight I manually converted 135+ joined FL’s from Flinx to Enth3. The amusing thing is that I spent many hours today doing something that is utterly pointless - there is no meaning behind fanlistings whatsoever. If you want to see what I was working on, though, my joined and owned fanlistings are now here.
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3 Responses for "Fanlisting Conversions"
Was it worth it though? I have been wanting to start a fan listing for a while, but wouldn’t even know where to begin…so I haven’t
For someone running just one and is comfortable with just using images links on a page for the handful they joined, is something like Enthusiast necessary? or is it overkill?
Yes, I would say it was worth it, because it does make life easier to have everything in one set of tables and one user interface. I can edit everything at once, which is nice.
As for whether or not you need a management script (Enthusiast, phpFanbase, FanAdmin)…I would say it makes things a lot easier, yes. If you’re not expecting very many members - one of mine only has eight after being around for a couple of years - then it’s probably fine to do it by hand. But keeping things in a database makes your life SO much easier…otherwise you have to receive the form (and archive it, in case your FL moves), copy the data over onto the website, sort the people properly, etc. It would be a big pain, whereas installing an admin script is not.
I set up everything I need to run my fanlisting last night and am awaiting approval *grin* I chosen phpFanList because I could figure it out on my own LOL
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