I've started again to work on this site, and I finished off the news section completely this morning. Next on my list is probably the photos section, and fixing up the troop homepage. Oh yeah, and get comments working .

That was strange: It seems that adding the [R] tag on the end of one of my htaccess definitions caused all POST variables to be dropped between page loads.

Phew....

I just finished an epic battle with PEAR's Date class and timezones in general, but I came out victorious! I still don't understand how I managed to do it, but a lot of tinkering ended up with me not having to touch the input unix timestamp and setting the timezone = Canada/Mountain, then switching it to the user timezone.

Unrelated to the main project, I have set up a Drupal installation at http://e-troop.net/sandbox to showcase my other random creations.

I have created the CSS style for news items, but I have yet to add functionality to them. This will include latest news for the troop homepage, a troop news homepage, an area to create new stories, and an area to edit existing stories + delete unwanted stories.

I finished the TCP up today with the exception of the settings tab, now I'm starting on the troop homepage content. From there, I'm going to do the news section + comments, then events + rsvp, and then picture albums.

11:39PM ends my coding marathon for today. I have successfully burned through everything in the Troop Control Panel with the exception of changing registration settings. That means permissions for both groups and users work, you can add new groups, change a user's primary group, view members of the troop, and approve requests to join your troop.

Next up I need to add the ability to delete non-primary groups, deny join requests, add the My Troops section to the nav menu, and then start on the actual features.