Salty foods are weirdly delicious.

love this issue!! i did have a plan to make something for this, but i wasn't able to finish in time :omg:k: but it turned out great! i am still reading through everyone's submissions but teddy's entry on virtual pets hits close to home! <3 i also loved the visual representation of web design history in kaiserwalz's entry!

i love this project and will keep my eye on it for sure! :-) i'm checking out the radio as i type this and i can hear some moonlight densetsu

some of your fav recent releases? what do you hope this project will look like in the future?

luuuuuuuuu!!! it's nice to see you here :-3
your site is a nice place for me to get lost in and think you've done your part in making the internet more awesome but i totally get shifting priorities. a forum is nice because it's a much slower pace!

omg I remember oekaki boards from chicken smoothie's own oekaki boards, do you recommend starting a personal version of one of these?

(i totally meant to respond to this way sooner, oops!) but yess! if you have access to dynamic hosting it's not as hard as i thought it would be to set up. it would be super fun to have an oekaki board just for yourself n friends! i took the extra step of adding in a login system to avoid spam since i wanted to make mine public, but otherwise the POTI-board template works out of the box. :-p

btw youre the person i found this site from, which i found from mayaland, which i found from marijn, which i found from gemini, which i found from i dont remember
anyway oekaki boards are goated

woahh! that's a fun rabbithole haha. and thenkz i missed oekaki's a lot and was so excited when i finally figured out how to set one up! :omg:k:

I don't think the era of RPGmaker games ever really ended! They definitely got a new lease on life through Steam. There's so many good modern ones. LISA is brilliant, and I've been meaning to check out Omori (waiting on the Switch port).

I did make my own RPGmaker game ages ago, on the PS1 version! It was about a dog doing dog things. Mostly I got it so I could play other people's games, but I could never get my DexDrive working...

I've never gave LISA a chance but I've certainly heard of it! same with omori! i remember when it started fundraising ages ago and kind of forgot about it BUT anyways it looks interesting! :-)

Also, I never realized there was a ps1 version of RPGmaker! man I would've loved to see some of those games!

Sneeky (And very premature) foreshadowing!

we must know more!

ooooh the palace! like di, this was before my time but i heard about it when reading an article about the origin of Dollz.

i also didn't realize it was decentralized :-o that's so cool that there are servers around, but di's experience with it seems to be the case for a lot of these old graphical chats that are still around. (i used to go on furcadia alllll the time as a kid, and now it's mostly AFK avatars lol. it makes Worlds seem more active in comparison).

for those that went on it back in the day: any memorable stories? fav servers?

im still a big n00b to php so i'm at the mercy of other's kindness to help me

i'm working on a curated archive of early 00's pixel websites (cough cough https://archive.cinni.net/) and wanted to implement a search engine for images on the site. at first i was using this tutorial which works fine BUT it doesn't easily search multiple directories. the issue is i plan to have many, many folders and having a big chunk of code per folder seems very bloated. i tried to make the $directory variable an array (like one of the comments suggest) but i haven't had any luck getting that to work since i dont know enough php :<

THEN a kind soul on the yesterweb discord provided me with the following code (that i sliiiiightly altered) which is able to search multiple directories but multiple word search terms like "hello kitty" would pull up every image with the term "hello" & "kitty" instead of filtering ONLY "hello kitty" in the file name. if you try it out yourself you'll notice it'll pull up each hello kitty gif twice.

Code

<form action="" method="POST">
 <label for="search-terms">enter search terms</label>
 <input type="text" name="search-terms" id="search-terms" value=''>
 <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search"/>
</form>

<?php
// Comment out PHP error reporting
// ini_set('display_errors', 1);
// ini_set('display_startup_errors', 1);
// error_reporting(E_ALL);

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST':wink: {
 $original_search = $_POST['search-terms'];

 $altered_search = strtolower($original_search);
 $altered_search = trim($altered_search);

 $search_terms = explode(" ", $altered_search);
 $search_terms_amount = count($search_terms);

 $images = [];

 $directories = ["img/", "test/"];
 $filetypes = ["jpg", "jpeg", "bmp", "png", "gif"];


 if (empty($original_search) === false) {
  /* Loop through our array of directories to search */
  foreach ($directories as $dir) :
   /* If the directory exists, look through it */
   if ( is_dir($dir) ) {
    if ( $open = opendir($dir) ) {
     /* Look at each file */
     $file = [];
     while (($file['original_name'] = readdir($open)) !== false) {
      $file['lowercase_name'] = strtolower($file['original_name']);
      $position= strpos($file['lowercase_name'], ".":wink:;
      $file['extension'] = substr($file['lowercase_name'], $position + 1); // get the file extension
      $file['extension'] = strtolower($file['extension']);

      /* Check if the file name matches any of our search terms */
      for ($i = 0; $i < $search_terms_amount; $i++) :
       if (strpos($file['original_name'], $search_terms[$i]) !== false) {
        /* Check if the filetype matches any of our desired extensions */
        foreach ($filetypes as $extension) :
         if ($file['extension'] == $extension) {
          array_push($images, $file); // add the file name to our array of found files
          ?>
          <div class="search-result">
           <div class="img-result"><img src="<?php echo $dir . $file['original_name']; ?>"></div>
           <div class="title-result"><p><?php echo $file['original_name']; ?></p></div>
          </div><br>
         <?php } // file extension matching
        endforeach; // file extension loop
       } // file name matches search terms
      endfor; // loop through all search terms
     } // while loop through every file in directory
    } // opendir($dir)
    closedir($open);
   } // is_dir($dir)
  endforeach; // directory loop
 } // empty($original_search)
} // if a search has been submitted
?>
</div>
<br><br>
<div style="display:block;">
<?php
if (count($images) == 0) { 
 /*echo "No results found for this search."; */
} else { 
  //for each search term, echo that search term
foreach ($search_terms as $key => $term) {
   
echo count($images) . " results found for ''$term'' ";
}
}
?>

if... someone could point me in the right direction of how to solve this @_@ i would like the search engine to pull images from multiple directories AND be able to filter out maybe like, up to 3 search terms. this isn't *super* necessary and if i have a janky search engine then so be it, buuuut i am thanking you in advance for any insight

i was super excited to try this out, till i got to the disclaimer... LOL

NOTE: If you use one of those fancy iframe sites (like cinni.net) this guide will not work for you directly, but it can be easily adapted to suit your site too! Ask in the comments if you need help with that and Ill figure it out.

either way, i've been wanting to do something like this one day cuz that's the one thing i dont like about iframes :-O

im a bit biased because i was a hardcore user of text emoticons like :-) or xD or T_T or even better kaomojis like (⌒▽⌒)☆! i definitely still prefer to use :-) over a smiley emoji, but that's because it conveys a totally different ~feeling~ yknow? i'm not against emojis and i really like them at times (i love some of the forum emojis like OR THE BEST ONE ), BUT the wrong set of emojis will turn me off :-(

side note: i wish emojis could be more easily toggled off in some clients, cuz soo many times i type :-o and it turns into 😮‍ when i really meant ":-o"... >:-(

to no one's surprise i use neocities for all my sites, but more recently ive been playing around with my leprd.space server for things that only php can do :-p such as my oekaki board!

n like cobradile i've used freewebz in the past & use yestercities for gemini!

love this !!! i recognized a lot of the sites featured hehe. i'm bookmarking this as it's a great example of how creative & diverse the web can be if you know where to look!

dang these sites are so cool! im glad they are still up :-o one site i still check on every now and then is https://webneko.net/

I just started making gifs and now I can't stop. lol




And I made a new web button for my neocities, now that I've had some practice making gifs.

so cute! i love them :-D