Coding Project #1 - Name Generators

Idea
Really basic idea, user enters their name, hits enter and the script returns a name relating to a certain topic for example, pr0n star names, pirate names, hacker names etc. For this project, I would like to built it for a website, so languages required would be PHP, basic SQL, HTML and CSS.

As this project is to help familiarise peopole with differnet languages I would like to start with a basic generator which when you press a button a random first and second name are fetched from an online database. Over time we can then work on algorhythms to pick specific names from the database which have some sort of connection to the end users inputted name.


Sections
Id like to split this project up into smaller groups of work, this way we can have multiple people working on differnet parts of the project, that way we can get the thing done quicker.

Website Front - Consists of creating the form and the stylings for the website. For this, HTML & CSS knowledge will be required.
PHP Scripting - This would be the 'behind the scenes code that will fetch the names.
Name Database - Probably the easiest job of the lot, to create multiple tables full of differnet names depending on the name topic (eg ornstar, pirate etc)


Developers
If your interested please reply with what section you would like to do, depending on who wants to do what, we might need to mix and match to ensure that all goes well.


End Result
In the end, I hope to have a good website that runs without any issues. I plan to add some ads to the site to help fund the CTF servers and future projects.
The site will be linked to the forum and visa versa.
Name Generators are quite popular and I hope this one to be too, but obviously there are many name generators out there so unless we make ours differnet we might not get up there. But either way this is a good team project to help people learn the basics of differnet web based languages.

PHP for me.

That surprised me -_-
lol

I guess ill be doing the front end of things.

So now just someone to build up the databases, all thats required for this is notepad lol
We can do the rest.

Indeed I am using Zend Studio, but I have no problem with Notepad.

Time to go look for a database of names. We need to talk about the circumstances for pulling names.

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Oh and because it requires the use of HTML forms, let me just create a quick index with some text boxes and a button for functionality, then you can work your styling/HTML/CSS magic.

Ok, I was looking for someone else to do the databases with names etc, but if your happy doing it, then go for it.
I was originally going to start with just a button to return a random name to try and help people understand, but if nobody else is interested in the project then there wouldnt be much point in taking it easy
Im going to send out an email blast to see whos else might be interested but hasnt checked the forum from this morning lol.

Sounds good, mate. I will try and find some names.

Front End for me

Hey Harold, I was wondering if you would be happy building up the database as all the other positions are taken.

Oliver Evans said:

Hey Harold, I was wondering if you would be happy building up the database as all the other positions are taken.

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hey Oliver, i do know if i can handle that. But I can try if you let me.

It's very simple mate. All you have to do is create a MySQL DB with one column that holds names.

I'll give you a quick guide on what to do. If you want you could just list a bunch of names for the different categories. You can do this in word or notepad if you want.

So to list the different name catergories.
Pirate
Hackers
Porn Star
Pop Star.

Any more?

Yeah that too. I can use fopen.

Hows the name list coming along?

haroldTech said:

Front End for me

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Is that a youthanism?

No longer doing this.

Closed.