I have no idea where this fits, since it's not a problem with AGS but a problem with the games page (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php). If there's somewhere that's more appropriate for this to be, I hope someone will move it for me.
My problem is that I've managed to get my game to show up on the games page, but I can't get the game authors to go into the database. Whenever I try to edit the page, I get a message that says that the page has been successfully updated, followed by this line:
QuoteData too long for column 'position' at row 1
Thusly, on my game's page (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=1066), this is displayed:
QuoteThe Vacuum was brought to you by:
(No additional author information available)
Obviously I'd like to be able to credit the people that helped make my game. Is this something I'm doing wrong? If not, how are the chances of getting this cleared up? (If we need a hand for some reason, I do have some knowledge of PHP.)
Did you make sure to follow the instructions PRECISELY with putting a colon between the user and their role without spaces? Like so:
Makeout Patrol:Game Design
You also need the actual user name of the people, which sometimes differs from their display name. The only way to get their true user name is to go to their profile.
Both done, still doesn't work. I'd been putting in the space before, but now I've taken it out and I have the same problem.
It couldn't be something to do with the space in my name, could it?
For reference, this is what I'm putting in the text field:
QuoteMakeout Patrol:Concept, art, writing, programming, beta testing
kaputtnik:music, beta testing
neon:beta testing, German translation
olafmoriarty:beta testing
DazJ:beta testing
Jon:beta testing
Alarconte:beta testing
CosmoQueen:beta testing
dunnoson:beta testing
I used your list on one of my games and all the names work (including your own) except for kaputtnik, which gives the error that it is not his proper user name. You'll have to ask him what his registered name is in this case. I forgot that the profile only shows the member's display name. If it varies from their registered username you'll have to ask them for it. I think CJ should probably add support for display names to the database so this stops being an issue :).
You can find out someone's registered name by visiting their profile page and looking where it says "Summary - NAME". It'll show their original name, not the one they're currently set to.
re your suggestion, Progz, using people's user ID would be even better. Admittedly it would be more fuss to find out the ID, but this would reduce hassle with strange characters in username, and confusion over registered names and stuff.
Or just hover over the name in one of their posts.
All right, it turns out that the entry that I had for myself was too long, in addition to the kaputtnik thing. Thanks, folks, everything appears to be running smoothly now!
Quoteyou can find out someone's registered name by visiting their profile page and looking where it says "Summary - NAME". It'll show their original name, not the one they're currently set to.
I was sure that was true, but when I loaded up kaputtnik's profile to look for it I completely missed the top blue border because I'm used to it just being header information! :|
I'm not sure about user ID's, but I do think display names would be easier overall since that's what everyone sees by default.