A New free Fault Database

[alancilia]

Hi

I have been following this forum for quite some time now , and I can say you are an amazing community .

These last few weeks I have been writing a Fault Database for the community .

Everyone is welcome add new categories and faults entries to share with others

You can search the database by Make/Model , category , fault description , or diagnosis / fix .

The database is still a bit empty , but hope we can build it together .

I know I still have some minor bugs I will be working on when I find some more free time

Here is the url :
http://fault-database.host56.com/Faults

Register and login.

Any suggestions are welcome.

[tom66]

Re: A New free Fault Database

It would be nice if you could view the database without registering first? Also could help with Google searches. I can understand the need to register before adding items.

[alancilia]

Re: A New free Fault Database

Hi

The registration is just to keep track who added the fault entries and the user can only edit his entries .

Here is a picture below .

[alancilia]

Re: A New free Fault Database

Hi

Just Added 450 Entries .

Enjoy !

http://fault-database.host56.com/Faults

[tom66]

Re: A New free Fault Database

To make it indexable by Google, which will bring more users to the site, you should make it so that people not logged in can see entries. It's fine that you have to register to add new entries but not to view them, in my opinion. Just look at a site like badcaps forum: you can browse without registering. Same idea.

[alancilia]

Re: A New free Fault Database

Hi Tom

Yes you are right ,

I have to make some search engine optimization when i find some free time .

Thanks for your suggestion .

[alancilia]

Re: A New free Fault Database

Hi

Just Added another 600 new Entries .

Enjoy !

http://fault-database.host56.com/Faults

[mmartell]

Re: A New free Fault Database

What about tom66's suggestion ??

[alancilia]

Re: A New free Fault Database

It only takes a few seconds register and join, it's free and dose not ask for any confirmation.

Please understand that removing the registration part from the code is not that simple now that is ready + time is not on my side at the moment .

So thanks for the suggestion , but at least for now it's not possible .

[alancilia]

Re: A New free Fault Database

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[tom66]

Re: A New free Fault Database

The registration/login is fine if you want to ADD things
But don't expect people to register to browse items. This will also prevent Google seeing the data.
I don't know about your code, but modifying the browse page should surely be simple; just comment the part that is:

if(!$user_logged_in) show_login(); 

for the browse page. Maybe 10 minutes work, tops. I recommend it
I did register myself out of curiosity, it looks like a good database so far

[mmartell]

Re: A New free Fault Database

It's a great idea and probably long overdue but I'm not understanding the opposition to removing the login for browsing the database ???

[alancilia]

Re: A New free Fault Database

Hi Tom

I don't Expect that people come to the database just to browse it .

But when people need to find a fault in the database than the registration part
will not be a problem .

I even used to pay for a database ( www.euras.com/english/ ) to save time in finding the faults .