When I fired up my local story submission tracker, it created an empty report. Luckily, I had Duotrope to fall back on. I love Duotrope, but one feature it doesn't have is a market suggestion feature, which my home-grown PHP script does have. Not to mention, it's always nice to have a back-up of what I'm doing that's not in the cloud.
It turned out that there were changes to several PHP calls. The first one was how files were read into arrays. I have three files--stories, mailcall, and markets--which I use to track which finished stories have been sent to which markets. The second changes were to how the mktime and date functions worked. Luckily, using a set time zone function fixed those; and then I had to fiddle with a how a market close date was trimmed (or in this case, how it shouldn't be trimmed anymore).
Now the programs are working, and I don't have to think too hard about if I've sent a story to a market previously, or which new story might be a good fit (is within word counts, is the right genre) for a particular market.
And... submit!
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