UCWCE

Utter Chaos Web Comic Engine

Modules

Page Loader

This module creates an XHTML page from the comic template, inserts the image reference to the specified comic, fills in the archive popup menu, and current news entries. As much of this work should be done before hand as possible to make this script run quickly for each page refresh.

Database Interface

This module acts as the abstraction between our internal objects and the database backend. This will probably interface with MySQL.

Comic Uploader

This module uploads comics into the engine and updates the database with the appropriate information.

News Poster

This module is used to add news posts to the database which will be used by the page loader.

Cron Updater

This module is run on a daily basis to post comic updates at a specified time in the future.

Search

This module will run a search for keywords, new posts, and comic dialog.

File Structure

The file structure will be specified here.

Schema

Schema for the MySQL DB backend

Comic Table

cid	page	date	title	comic_path	Chapter	Text description	Status
1	1	2/6/2006	Enter the Dragon	comic20060206.png	1	You killed my fish!	live
2	2	2/8/2006	Exit Tiger	comic20060208.png	1	Why does that pickle you?	working

Indexed by cid, Full Text on title, Full Text on description, or Chapter. Sorted by Date or Page

News Table

cid	nid	date	title	poster	entry	status
1	1	2/6/2006 15:30 EST	Enter the Dragon	Artist	Hey everyone, I posted a comic!	live
1	2	2/7/2006 12:43 EST	You Suck	Writer	Pthhhpbt	live
2	3	2/8/2006 00:00 EST	Exit Tiger	Artist	Waka waka	working
2	4	2/9/2006 12:17 EST	Lameness	Admin	I am lame	working

Chapter Table

chapter	title	book	status
1	Crash	1	live
2	Crashier	1	working

Book Table

book	title	status
1	Start!	live
2	Downward	working