[WIP] PasteSite

[PsychoticDude85]

PasteSite.Com (http://pastesite.com/)

PasteSite is an easy to use and advanced pastebin website which allows users to track and manage their pastes as well as having password support for pastes to allow users to keep their code secret from the public while still allowing them to ask for help.

Please promote it and use it if you like it. Also, use the contact form if you come across any bugs, it's been working fine for the last week or two though, so I don't expect anything major to emerge.

Credits:
- Icons: Crystal SVG set from http://everaldo.com/crystal.html
- Text_Highlighter: php PEAR module http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Highlighter

[Terminator1138]

so its a code editing help system or what exactly is the benefits of this, curious to what you are doing there alex...sounds interesting

[PsychoticDude85]

You've not used a pastebin before? Basically, you paste the code you need help with to the site, then pass on the link to other people. Having the code plus syntax highlighting helps others to find bugs etc.

[Terminator1138]

You've not used a pastebin before? Basically, you paste the code you need help with to the site, then pass on the link to other people. Having the code plus syntax highlighting helps others to find bugs etc.

nope never used pastebin, but I appreciate you "educating" me on what it is and what you are doing. Seems pretty interesting...

[PsychoticDude85]

They are awesome things, especially in IRC where you can't really paste a 200 line page source into the channel. ;) They have an equally valid use in forums apps with poor syntax highlighting support as well, or just a place to make a note of something then find it again a bit later on another computer.

[Terminator1138]

so this is basically something similar to say subversion but one file? I would love to find a php version control system that does not require root access, but sadly have not found anything to day that has features.

[PsychoticDude85]

I suppose you could use it as such, but it doesn't have anything more than a basic parent version system. If you edit a page it knows what page preceded it, but it doesn't have support for development trees. What I see as it's main use is a site for a conversation like this in a chat app:

<Foo> Hey, Bar, can you help me with this? http://alex-elliott.co.uk/pastesite/show/24586
<Bar> Foo, sure, I'll have a look.
<Bar> Foo, line 13, you're missing a semi-colon.
<Foo> Awesome! Works now, thanks, Bar. :)

Though I'm not saying that's it's only use.

Any feedback though? Even if just on the layout or markup, though comments on the backend would be preferable. :)

[Terminator1138]

sounds interesting there Alex...looks like you have done some good work.

[PsychoticDude85]

Bought the domain :)

Tell your friends! Now! ;)

[intiendes]

HTML Validation Result
----------------------
http://pastesite.com/

line 1 column 1 - Warning: inserting missing 'title' element

0 errors / 1 warning

[PsychoticDude85]

Eh? http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpastesite.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&ss=1&verbose=1

Also, I already knew how it validated, I'm not one to leave things with errors, so that's not particularly useful, if you have anything to critique about the backend, or layout or how the site works I would love to hear it though.

[Terminator1138]

HTML Validation Result
----------------------
http://pastesite.com/

line 1 column 1 - Warning: inserting missing 'title' element

0 errors / 1 warning

only one warning is pretty good and really its errors that are the main worry, however I have to applaud Alex on a good site overall...best of luck with it.

[PsychoticDude85]

I just want to know what this warning is, w3 doesn't tell me I have a warning :/

I'm guessing that you're using something like HTMLtidy? Well, it hardly matters, I think I take w3.org's suggestions more strongly.

Things aren't going that badly all told, first couple of weeks and I've got 200 uniques, I just have to hope that I can build on that over a few months until I have enough people on there to keep it in use.

[PsychoticDude85]

I've done some more work on this recently, and a new version of the site is now live with a much cleaner index page, more control over pastes for registered users, an alternative syntax highlighting colour scheme for usability, and more. :)

Please have a look and tell me what you think (and if you remember the old one whether it's better now).

New lazy link: http://pastesite.com/

[Terminator1138]

looking awesome there alex....I like the web 2.0 look as it adds a level of modernism to it...nice job.

[Terminator1138]

I'm also curious, am I the only one and others I set up to view my pasted code? or can it be viewed by anyone?

[PsychoticDude85]

By default it's public, but by clicking "toggle advanced options" you get the option to set it to private and assign a password to it. That way, only people who have the URL with that password will be able to view it, and it will also not appear in the recent pastes page.

[Terminator1138]

Cool, thats good as some my take code without credits and all, anyway, great site....