One of the unfinished pieces of this web application was the control panel. This isn't something that most users would see, only support personnel, which is me.
One part of the control panel is to help with customer support. Other parts were for marketing, website design, database maintenance, and language management.
The first photo shows what I see when I'm logged in and I've clicked on the Support link at the top of the page. The bottom four buttons don't actually lead to anything yet. I just put them there because they were items I wanted (and still want) to get done.
The second screenshot shows the heart of the helpdesk application that I haven't finished yet. The search features work, but adding a new customer needs some more programming. The database tables are already in place for documenting cases, and some changes generate a case record automatically, but I haven't yet written the part where they can be searched and edited.
The third picture shows the screen where I can edit details of a user. The Edit buttons are functional, and share a lot of the same code. The three buttons in a row aren't functional yet, but I got the "Reset Password" code written and tested today. The code for users to reset their own passwords was working years ago, and still seems to be, but this screen is for editing someone else's password.
The cases were generated automatically when I made certain changes, but I can't annotate them yet. I can also edit my students.
The fourth picture shows the statistics information. It worked years ago, but it may need a minimum number of log files to generate statistics, or I may need to change permissions on the logs to read them. I'll figure that out sometime after I redo the virtual servers.
The fifth photo is the screen for viewing individual logs. It used to work, if I remember correctly. It shouldn't require much to get that running again.
The sixth photo is the screen for managing the website's appearance. I created this so that I could eventually manage all of the formatting without having to directly access any of the css files. The data for each of these five categories have tables in the database, and internal style sheets are or will be generated based on these settings. I should also be able to modify this so that users can control the appearance of their own pages, but I'm sure I didn't get that far yet. The seventh picture shows the page for editing the styles.
The eight picture is from the marketing part of the application. "Potential Friends" refers to potential friends of learning, not people I was hoping to hang out with. I set up the database to include the ability to keep track of prospects, and relationships between prospects.
The ninth photo show the results of some of the email experiments I ran. The program can send out alternate versions of an email, and gauge response based on the unique IDs associated with each email. I wanted to be able to make a test, then judge the results, then use that information for the next test, but I had no income and had to abandon the project (temporarily) while I looked for a job, and then while I began taking care of my mother, who has Alzheimer's.
The last picture isn't actually the language screen that would show up in the control panel. This is what one of my user logins displays under Settings > Languages. This isn't available to other users yet.
I built the application from the start with the idea that it would be capable of being displayed in multiple languages, and there are many tables in the database to facilitate that (the database has a total of 213 tables at the moment). Under the control panel there would be options for adding languages and entering translations, but this screen is what a user would see to choose a language. If you look at the top menu in that picture you can see that three of the words are in Hindi.
Dr. Drew interviewed Scott Adams recently, and Scott Adams mentioned the absurdity that Republicans went to overthrow the government on Jan 6, but they neglected to bring their guns. On the first or second anniversary of the event, that alleged oversight made the narrative appear absurd to me, so I made a "video" that was supposed to be audio from January 6, captured on a video camera from which the lens cap had not been removed. I'm posting it again just because.
While I was waiting on hold to talk with a human at the IRS, I decided to put some food out for the dogs. I set the full bag of dog food on a chair, and walked away to get the bowls. When I turned around I saw the bag slowly tipping over, spilling much of its contents onto the floor. Fortunately I had help cleaning it up.
The main task for today is to begin revising McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader. It may take a couple of weeks, possibly more. I still have to work at Publix, and next week I start a new job in the memory care unit of a rehab/nursing home facility, and I'll also be working at Publix at least one night.
After that I'll take a look at the double-slit experiment, and see if there is an interpretation that is consistent with my theory of wave physics.
Also, I came across the attached meme, which I had created two or three years (or so) ago. I thought I'd include it because I still like it.
I recently proposed a theory of matter and energy called Wave Physics. In this theory, the only things in the universe are energy and the universal membrane, which is the medium through which all energy is transfered and stored.
Tonight I realized that according to this theory, everyone and everything in the universe are connected to each other at all times. Things that would be impossible according to the standard model of particle physics, are very possible in the universe of wave physics. Psychic transmissions and the power of prayer are physically possible and make sense if the universe works in any way like the theory I proposed.
If you've ever heard the phone ring and felt sure who it was before answering it, and were proven correct, this makes sense in wave physics, but not with particle physics. If you've ever looked intently at someone, and had that person quickly turn and look directly at you (I have), that phenomenon makes sense if all of us are parts of the same vast, ...
I was only scheduled to work three days this week, so I decided to work on a theory I'd been playing around with for fun over the last few years. I'd never been a big fan of the standard model of particle physics, so a few years ago, just for fun, I thought about exploring some alternate ideas, with zero training and zero experiments.
This week I wrapped up a few loose ends, and posted it to a community I created called Wave Physics. Originally I had called it Alternative Physics, but I changed my mind, so the link still has alternativephysics in it, but the community name is Wave Physics. I'd love for people to pay $5.00 a month to tell me how wrong I am.
https://alternativephysics.locals.com/
I also posted it on my personal website:
