Lua Chunks.com - A new website for sharing Lua code

[Nikolai Resokav]

Lua Chunks.com is a website I have been working on in my spare time to learn more about PHP. It's primary function is to serve as a pastebin-like website but exclusively for Lua, with syntax highlighting for different kinds of Lua (like Lua written for LOVE). Currently, Lua Chunks supports the entire LOVE api, as well as several Garry's Mod libraries. I plan on adding support for more apis/libraries in the future.

url: http://luachunks.com/

Let me know what you guys think and if you have any suggestions or encounter any errors feel free to PM me or make a post in this thread.

[Nixola]

I'd like an account system, but it's quite difficult to do, isn't it?
It's quite nice, anyway, I like Notepad++-like syntax color
First Lua chunk!

[Nikolai Resokav]

I'd like an account system, but it's quite difficult to do, isn't it?
First Lua chunk!

I actually made an account system in a previous version, but I felt like I was over-complicating things so I got rid of it.

[Nixola]

I'd like to be able to track my chunks easily, to access a list with a single click, but it's really useful like this too

[Nikolai Resokav]

I'd like to be able to track my chunks easily, to access a list with a single click, but it's really useful like this too

I might re-implement the account system in the future depending on how many people actually end up using the site.

[Nixola]

I also thought about having a button to read a random Lua chunk and the possibility to upload a private chunk, at least the first one shouldn't be hard to do, right?

[Nikolai Resokav]

I also thought about having a button to read a random Lua chunk and the possibility to upload a private chunk, at least the first one shouldn't be hard to do, right?

Neither would be too hard to implement. The only issue with having a private chunk is the current chunk id system. Chunk ids are currently really easy to guess so I'd likely have to implement a password system when trying to access a private chunk. I personally think it would be a little frustrating having to enter a password in order to access a private chunk.

[Nixola]

Isn't it possible to use strings as an ID? A public chunk could have both a numeric and a string ID while a private one may only have a hard-to-guess string ID

[Nikolai Resokav]

Isn't it possible to use strings as an ID? A public chunk could have both a numeric and a string ID while a private one may only have a hard-to-guess string ID

Chunk id's are strings already. Currently, chunk id's are created by converting an auto incrementing database id to base 36. This means that they will eventually be alphanumeric once more chunks have been created.

[Nixola]

Well, if you prevent people from using custom IDs shorter than 8 characters you already have at least 78'364'164'096 chunks to be created before private ones could accidentaly become public... Or, you could tell them to use at least one symbol, it will never become public