jason! I have a php coding question for you!
I want to make a somewhat interactive web page that will facilitate the cooperative creation of poetry, namely Exquisite Corpse and I was wondering how difficult it might be to code something up with the following features:
1. The ability to start a new poem with some sort of input box, I suppose this would write the initial line of poetry to a database or text file or something on my web server. I'd like to have multiple poems going at once, so I suppose it needs to be somewhat flexible, perhaps saving the name of the person who started the poem. I'd also like the starter to designate how long the lines can be (in characters) and how many lines the poem will be before it's finished
2. The last line of a random poem displayed on a seperate page with another input box that a person would use to add in the next line, along with their name, to keep track of who did what.
3. A third page that displays completed poems, along with the date they were started and finished, maybe also a title that could be added after the poem's complete.
Is this at all a hard thing to make? It's all text, so it's nothing to terribly fancy. I was also thinking about the possibility of making specific poems private, so only certain people can add to them (possibly by making a special url or something? I dunno)
I really have no experience with php and whatnot, so I thought I'd ask your opinion.
1. The ability to start a new poem with some sort of input box, I suppose this would write the initial line of poetry to a database or text file or something on my web server. I'd like to have multiple poems going at once, so I suppose it needs to be somewhat flexible, perhaps saving the name of the person who started the poem. I'd also like the starter to designate how long the lines can be (in characters) and how many lines the poem will be before it's finished
2. The last line of a random poem displayed on a seperate page with another input box that a person would use to add in the next line, along with their name, to keep track of who did what.
3. A third page that displays completed poems, along with the date they were started and finished, maybe also a title that could be added after the poem's complete.
Is this at all a hard thing to make? It's all text, so it's nothing to terribly fancy. I was also thinking about the possibility of making specific poems private, so only certain people can add to them (possibly by making a special url or something? I dunno)
I really have no experience with php and whatnot, so I thought I'd ask your opinion.
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