I was looking at my google analytics account and saw that the MTG:DB site was actually getting a little bit of traffic from google. One visitor even spent 40 minutes searching through cards (and I know it wasn’t me since the source was google and not direct). I figured the site could use a few small updates.

I altered the database so that there was only one card in the table even if it was released in multiple versions. It uses the editions table to sort that out. That made the search results a little cleaner since if it only finds one card it will display it.

Just like the old Code Spatter, it was using spaces in the mod-rewrite-pretty links which aren’t so pretty with the %20s all over the url. I replaced those with dashes so it’s more readable.

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