improve 'request new show' page (for santah)

Done

Yeah, that'll stop 'em dead in their tracks.

In addition to what lighton proposed awhile back, would it also help to implement the same error message for "pending request" and shows that already exist here at next-episode.net? For example, if I request "Show XYZ," but someone else also requested the same show right before me, I should see the following error box. This should be filtered against the existing added list.

I also see a lot of shows that are rejected because they already exist. So maybe the same can apply when someone tries to request a show that already exists...

The only questions I have are, would it be easier to filter this against the "Show Name" typed in the request box, or TheTVDB page link? The latter would probably also eliminate a lot of alternatives and misspelled show titles if they also point to the same external links. The second being of course, would this be more work or trouble than it's worth?

Okay santah, cool. Look forward to however you decide to implement this. The other option that crossed my mind in addition to this would be a drop down window of an existing show title typed in the "Show Name" dialog box when you add a new request. Perhaps even making it a hyperlink that would redirect the requester to the show page. It would be similar to the search box at the top of the home page. The working theory is that hopefully people will notice it and stop right there with their requests. The only problem with that is it still wouldn't help against alternate titles or misspelled titles that are submitted with a different external id that isn't associated with the requested show already in our database.

It works that way currently - normally, we have both links, but that's not the case for 100% of the shows (some are not available on both platforms, some weren't available at the time of adding from one of the platforms etc).

Even though I regularly run (semi-manual) checks to match shows from thetvdb to tvmaze, still not all the shows have both.

And when a show is not on Next Episode and there are multiple requests to add it (one with a thetvdb link the other with tvmaze) - there isn't really a reliable way to match those and inform the person requesting the duplicate of it.

Ok done.

So, adding (or editing) a show request will now check against existing (pending) show requests and also shows already added on Next Episode and will error out (informing of the duplicate with link to the existing show if available) and not allow requesting duplicates.

Also, fixed a little bug that would sometimes prevents show requests to be edited once submitted.

Yes it will.