Hosting sample maps

From Valve Developer Community

Summary

In a short period there will be hosting of your SDK sample maps available at CrabbyData's website... It will probably have the url http://www.vmfupload.net, but since I'm negotiating with Valve, it could also become http://vmfupload.valvesoftware.com/ There will be lots of features, like moderating your post (altering, deleting, updating etc.).
Every (user)post will contain:

A SDK sample map
Date of post
For which Mod it is
Poster's VDC-username and email
Comments by poster and visitors
An Admin-comment (e.g. "Works fine", "Works fine, but problems compiling", "Corrupt" (=Non-.vmf-file))
Screenshot(s) (It will also be possible to upload 3D-Quicktime Movies (How_To_Create_Panoramic_Views))
A download button

Some features:

There will be a couple of admins around, 24/7, to check, validate and delete maps.
There will be a searchable database with all the information about all the maps for all mods.

Lots of features to be added! Give comments or ideas on the Talk Page of this article!

Note:There will be a maximum file size

(Open) Jobs

(PHP-)Coders

VDC Name	Type of Job	Confirmed by CrabbyData
CrabbyData	Webmaster (Mainly HTML+PHP)	yes
BJ	Primary .VMF-parser-coder + Webmaster	yes
Dutchmega	Secondary .VMF-parser-coder	yes
AndrewNeo	Code cleanup and standardization	yes
-your name?-	Volunteer

Mapping-Database & Forum

Name	Type	Map-DB	Forum	Confirmed by CrabbyData
CrabbyData	Admin	X	X	yes
Dutchmega	Admin	X	X	yes
BJ	Admin	X	X	yes
-your name?-	Moderator

Translators

Language	Volunteer
~~English~~	CrabbyData
~~Dutch~~	CrabbyData
French	Open
German	Open
Norwegian	Open
Finnish	Open
Swedish	Open
Danish	Open
Italian	Open
Portuguese	Open
Spanish	Open
other?	Open

Updates

05/14/'06

Idea initiated by CrabbyData.

05/17/'06

Email send to Valve about website hosting and copyright-things.
Started with creating index.php
Created a testing mysql-database.
Created the logo on top of the page.

05/18/'06

Created another 2 logos
Made a PHP-script which random displays one of the three logo's
Starting on creating login-system and news-system
Altered template so it will show bigger on larger screens (19"+)

05/19/'06

Free from school, so a 3-day-weekend ^_^ Let's get started!
Created a PHPscript for automatic updating of the copyright-year

05/21/'06

A friend of mine created a language-PHP-script! Yes, you read it good, the Upload.VMF website will be multilingual!
Created a perfect login-system, just have to implant it into the header...

05/23/'06

Created Jobs-list here.
Considered that a .vmf file is just a simple text file... No wonder they're so small... -CrabbyData
Came up with another idea: Source Statistics Community

05/24/'06

Tested language script, and yes, it works ^^

05/27/'06

Created login script.
Tested login script.
Confirmed working of login script!

05/28/'06

Added some language-entries (more sentences).
Random favicon (little image next to website-url) works!

06/05/'06

Lately not much updates, that's because I had a lot of work to do for school...

In the mean time, BJ has done a incredible job, and created the PHP, MySQL and HTML-'base'-website; He did a huge part of the website with this! I hereby want to thank him again, for this major 'update' :D

In a short time, my 'alpha'-website, and BJ's test website will be merged into a real alpha-website! Once BJ and I finetuned it, it will become a beta-release, and it will be available for uploading your sample maps! :D :D :D

07/05/'06 and futher...

We've made HUGE progress, all thanks to BJ! Thanks mate, very, very, very much! :D He's done ALL the PHP-parser coding and other things like map-database, uploading forms, actually everything and more I could wish for :D Thanks again! :D

01/30/'07

Although the project was 'down' for about half a year, CrabbyData worked for the past month on the 'looks' of the website. A small sneak-peak can be viewed here: [1], but take in mind that it's far from finished(!). CrabbyData

...more updates soon...

--CrabbyData 12:57, 14 May 2006 (PDT)