I need testers for an online dream journal.

**blade5x** · 02-28-2009 02:49 AM

Hey everyone. I am looking for testers for an online dream journal I just built. I'm going to through a web development addiction phase again - I've spent the last 4-5 days putting it together. I've debugged it, but there's only so much I can do by myself. I actually need user comment and feedback to make sure it works perfectly.

Here is the example

If you are interested, you will need to register an account (how else can I retrieve user specific information). Once registered, you will be able to add/edit/delete your dream journal entries.

For now, all dream journals are private meaning only you, the logged in the user, can view your dream journal. At some point in the future, public (viewable to registered members) and full public (viewable to all) options will be available. You will also be able to keep your journal on private and add select members to be able to view your dream journal if you wish.

Other things that I plan to implement:

Color scheme options for index chart.
Multiple entries viewable at one time.
Selectively add members to have viewing ability of your dream journal while keeping it private.
Option to allow your statistics to be viewable in a table against other members (like a high score sheet).
Select flag count of other public entries before they are no longer viewable to you (may be set to unlimited).
If set to public allow the option for other members to insert dream interpretations below the dream entry.

So as you can see, there is much yet to come. That's about it for now. If I think of anything else I'll update here. If you do decide to test it out, please give me feedback and suggestions and here, or by private message here. You can also submit bug reports once logged on.

Thanks!

**blade5x** · 03-05-2009 05:44 AM

Realized there was a bug and the entries were not displaying. Not sure how that happened to be honest... must have accidentally uploaded and older version. Works good now though.

**blade5x** · 03-15-2009 06:11 AM

Bump. Got some registrations but not much usage, so no feedback yet. Finally spring break has rolled around so I can actually start working on the planned updates above.

**Smarties** · 03-16-2009 08:37 PM

This thing seems to be coming along nicely. It is quite a nifty little tool, but one thing is really bothering me: why can you only submit one entry per night? I understand that it's fully possible to add more than one dream in one entry, but there's only one "dream title" field, which can be a bit of a problem. May I suggest you make it possible to add more than one dream per night and make a dropdown menu for each date, listing each entry for that night? (any other solution would be fine too, as long as it's practical) This is a very interesting project and if you could just fix this one detail, you'd have at least one faithful user.

The best of luck with the online dream journal.

*edit*
Just realized that was on your list of things to add. (unless I misunderstood the second thing on the list) My bad. Keep up the good work nonetheless.

**blade5x** · 03-16-2009 10:09 PM

Thanks for the feedback. Yes it's definitely up there on my to do list. I'm thinking about just making a button you can click which will display a duplicate form below for a second entry, and so on, or just have "how many entries would you like to add" and based on the input display that many forms.

The other thing is I am looking into getting the characters ' " outside of the illegal characters. For some reason, it seems that my server is real escaping these characters as a security feature, so if you type a word like don't, it will appear as don\'t even though I am not telling it to do that!

I am spring break now so I'll be working a lot on my web developements before the school of engineering hell starts up again.

**blade5x** · 03-20-2009 08:53 PM

Alright - multiple entries to a single day are now allowed. You can select a date, and select X entries you wish to enter (which will bring up X entry forms). You can also add to previous entry dates, move your entries around, change them entirely, and etc.

Hopefully it is not too buggy because I had to pretty recode everything to allow for multiple entries in a single day.

Next I'll work on aesthetics a bit. And afterward I will begin to implementing DJ publicity options.

**blade5x** · 03-29-2009 01:40 AM

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