About the URCG Website

You hopefully are thinking to yourself, "wow, what an amazing website." Thanks! It took a lot of work. This website was the brainchild of former president of URCG, Nate McBean. Once upon a time, URCG had a nice and fancy website that was around when Nate was a young'in. It did a lot of stuff (he thinks), but it broke! Unfortunately no one knew anything to be able to fix it, so URCG entered the dark ages. These ages were marked by a fully manual website. This meant that the webmaster would manually have to put the movies on the front page every Sunday. Furthermore, everything had to be updated and maintained on the schedule page.

It was a logistical nightmare. If something went wrong with the programming, the programming director would have to contact the webmaster who would have to update the website as fast as possible. Since everything was manual, even simple changes took some time.

A vision...

But Nate had a vision. A vision of a fully automatic website powered by PHP and MySQL. This website could be powerfully controlled by anyone in power, and would be specifically tailored to the needs of the aspiring Cinema Group. This website would have a nice, easy to use admin interface....

It would allow the correct people to update movies, based on editing a simple HTML form...

With a lot of hard work, this vision became a reality. Once the information was all stored, everything else was automated! The front page would automatically display information for any movies in a two week timeperiod (it would findthe last monday, and then show movies scheduled two weeks from that date). The schedule page would look at the current date, and if it was before July 1st, it would pull all movies scheduled between January 1st, and June 1st and would label it the spring semester. If the date was after june 1st, it would label the movies as the fall semester. The possibilities were endless.

Then, Nate became mad with power... he thirsted for more in the website. Using this system, historical data was added, so the schedule page allows you to look at historical data from any URCG semester.

Still not enough...

He even went further, and made it so that all exec boards were saved on the website,

and so that there was a TM management system, with automatic email reminders when someone signed up to help out at a movie.

It also allowed the easy management of the survey that is given out every semester...

The system was good, and Nate was tired. Even so, whenever he thought work was done, he would think of another novel idea. He ended up working on it till the end of his days of being able to control the website without annoying the ligitimate webmaseter. Nate has since pasted on in his webmasterial role, but there is a new webmaster, someone possibly.. even greater... with larger ambitions for the website. Maybe THEY will add even MORE new things!