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MTV STAYING ALIVE - NELSON MANDELA

Project Start Date: April 17, 2008

Project Launch Date: June 16, 2008

URL:
  • http://staying-alive.org/mandela90/
Purpose: Micro site produced to celebrate Nelson Mandela's birthday when he turned 90 on 18th July 2008. He is a long supporter of Staying Alive and the fight against AIDS in general.

Technology: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript

Click here for preview.


Functionality:
  • Normal View
    • WATCH VIDEOS
      • Video player is embedded on the page. Click on the picture of mandela to play the video.
      • Click 'Watch "Meeting Mandela"' to auto play Meeting Mandela video. Click 'Watch "Birthday Wishes"' to auto play Birthday Wishes video.
      • Videos will play in the same space and will swap out when links are clicked
    • Featured Quotes
      • The quotes pull from a text database.
    • SPEAK OUT! LEAVE A MESSAGE
      • Form takes input and sends this to email so there is an alert whenever a comment is added.
      • All entries are added to the text database automatically. These entries are marked as inactive when they are initially entered into the database.
    • YOUR MESSAGES ARE DISPLAYED BELOW
      • All entries that are marked as active are displayed with the newest entry posted on top.
  • Admin View
    • Here you will see every comment that was inputted. Newly added comments are inactive. Note that comment #1 and #2 are not displayed since these comments are the featured quotes above.
    • Clicking on the green plus button will mark the comment as active so that it will be displayed outside of the admin view.
    • Clicking on the red cross button will mark the comment as inactive so that it will NOT be displayed outside of the admin view.
    • Clicking on * ADMIN VIEW * will refresh the page. I do not recommend clicking the refresh or back buttons on your browser.
    • Clicking on [ Click here for normal view. ] will take you outside of the admin view. You will have to enter the password again to go back to admin view.


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