That being said, should I just use facebook's liking function? If I do that, can I use those likes to rank my own comics by popularity in the database? Should I continue on with my custom liking function, but change my approach? Clicking on the star icon on any row in the main analysis pages results in adding that specific grade into your My Comics section. The official Vision Statement is: 'The Grand Comics Database Project aspires to be the worlds most comprehensive online comics database for. which could be a huge burden on my hosting server, and a mess to manage. The Grand Comics Database (GCD) is a nonprofit, Internet-based organization of international volunteers dedicated to building a database covering all printed comics throughout the world. which could be a ton of database entries. that could result in n voters * x comics that they've liked. Now what happens if my site starts becoming popular. I can then use this to rank and sort comics by popularity.Īs I was testing, I realized that a user with a unique IP can potentially like all comics (ex: 127.0.0.1 liked comicid 30, 127.0.0.1 liked comicid 31, 127.0.0.1 liked comicid 32, etc. If they are in fact liking a unique comic id, it will increment the like or dislike count of the associated comic id in the comics table. But their IP can still vote on any other comic id. Since their IP is now in the database, if they try to vote on the same comic id again, it won't let them. I don't think I can get the total likes fromīased on the information below, should I continue on with my approach or not?Įach time a unique person likes a comic id, it will first insert that user's ip and that specific comic id that they liked. I want the like counts to be stored in my database so I can sortĬomics by popularity. I wanted to allow users to like and dislike a comic. The reason I'm building my own is because I'm building a comics website and have recently been working on and testing a liking function.

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