Website progress
The last few days have been spent getting the website more usable. Profiles are well under way, and users can now edit their profile data.
I have also made use of the GD library for PHP that allows me to manipulate images. I used this to resize uploaded user photos so that they are scaled to a width of 300px. This ensures file sizes are kept small, and bandwidth is minimal.
I have also changed the main front home page to show recently logged in users to encourage user interaction and show that the site is being used.
Finally today I have added script to create directories for users upon their successful registration. This allows me to store their uploaded files in their own file space which makes it easier to maintain. Also, directories are created in secure non web viewable locations for the purposes of uploading data, so that when potential trip data is unzipped, if there are any malicious files they wont be executed by Apache/PHP.
SO MUCH TO THINK ABOUT!
We are getting there, though lots more to do!