Re: [Phpslash-devel] Re: mailinglist status

[Luis M <le...@ho...>]

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> > For some reason, after upgrading one of my production sites to 0.7.1 I 
>lost
> > this functionality. I'm not sure if it has to do with phplib or that's 
>the
> > way things were in previous versions of phpslash and we somehow changed 
>this
> > for the 0.7.1 release... What I mean is that STORY_ID was declared 
>somewhere
> > and as te templates for slashhead() were parse, somehow that container 
>was
> > still active when getTitleBar() got called... In short, having this 
>variable
> > available for titles don't hurt. We would love to let people click on 
>MORE
> > or the TITLE of the story to go to the whole article ... it's just 
>natural.
> >
>
>Not sure how you handled this before.  What I've done is replace the
>{TITLEBAR} with {TITLE} like:
>
><a href="{ROOTDIR}/article.php3?story_id={STORY_ID}">{TITLE}</a>
>
>This is in story.tpl or storyIndex.tpl.
>
>I usually also pretty much replace the {THESTORY} tag in
>storyIndex.tpl with most of the stuff in story.tpl.  I believe a few
>of the skins in the -skins cvs do this.  In this way, the index page
>can look different than just the first part of the article page.
>Just because the original slashdot page does this doesn't mean your
>layout needs to.

That's exactly what I needed to know. Thx. Before I just had the 
titlebar.tpl setup in the same bgcolor that the story.tpl had, and then made 
the title a link to the story... exactly what you said here. Thx again for 
the input!

>
> > 2. there should be a way to declare arrays/containers/hashes directly 
>from
> > the config.ini.php file (or somewhere else) so that the user can just do
> > things in that file (or maybe thru the "admin" links right into the
> > database) and don't need to modify the slashhead() calls to get 
>variables
> > declared at the slashhead(). For instance, prior to 0.7.1, I had to do
> > things like:
> >
> > $banner=random_image("file.txt");
> > slashHead(...,...,"",$banner);
> >
> > This means that I had to modify the functions.inc and e/a slashHead() 
>call
> > for e/a script/page I wanted to show a random banner chosen from a 
>file...
> > painfull to maintain and upgrade!
> >
> > Thanks goodness that you changed slashHead() to get an $extra_ary hash 
>for
> > which keys will be taken as containers for the templates, now I can just 
>do:
> >
> > $banner["RANDOM_IMAGE"]=random_image("file.txt");
> > slashHead(...,...,$banner);
> >
> > And things work as expected. You are a genius :-D This functionality 
>should
> > be added to the manual for other webmasters out there who use phpslash 
>for
> > their customers ;-) People love to have banners and other "commercials" 
>in
> > their sites.
> >
>
>gotcha.  The guts are there, but each page has to be modified to
>call the header correctly.
>
>I had been thinking that this would be spread out for different ad
>"zones".
>
>How about this?
>
>$extra_ary = '';
>// Are there extra tags/variables to pass to slashHead.tpl?
>if(is_array($_PSL['extra_ary'])) {
>    $extra_ary = $_PSL['extra_ary'];
>}
>
>$header = getHeader($pagetitle,$_PSL['metatags'], $extra_ary);
>
>Then it could be defined in config.ini, config.php, or in the
>script.  But couldn't come from the url.
>
That sounds perfect. But how would the "extra_ary" be defined in the .ini ? 
This way:

extra_ary = KEY=>'value', KEY2=>'value2', ..., KEYn=>'valuen'

?? just curious...
>
> > 3. We should stress the poll (system: classes, functions, pages, admin
> > pages) to make sure that we took care of all "known" bugs. I'll be doing
> > this ASAP and I'll let you know if I find something that needs to be
> > changed.
> >
>
>I don't think there is anything here to hold us up, but we'll see.

Me either. But just to be sure...


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