[bme-develop] Re: bme-develop digest, Vol 1 #106 - 3 msgs

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> How about larger blocks of text? If someone translated the whole about
> page into another language, how would that work?

They are in it too !! Everything that is part of the website language is set
by those locale files (only CVS instructions are not part of it yet but
will).

>
> Also there are some other things needing localisation - Date strings
> for news articles for instance (on my index2 page, I decided on "Author
> - Date" instead of a "Posted by Author, on Date" format as I thought it
> would work in most languages like that)

It's up to you guys. French use day month year like 31/12/2004 .... and i
think only US is 12/31/2004. Doing this will need i think the have three
columns in the database with day, month and year to change the way it
screens, or make some substring(); ...... and i means also to make a
difference between UK and US .... i think it would be better to keep d/m/Y
for everyone but it's ike you want !!!


> I've been doing all my changes on line - the new css is in bme.sf.net/
> main2.css (as Tim had the bin directory protected so I couldn't write
> to it). The only css change I remember is adding some definitions for
> the welcome block on my index2 page. Any other changes (some little
> things in header.php is all I remember) are just overwritten on the old
> files.

Oky .... Mil, can you send them to me ?

> I have some ideas on the lite-forum page, I'll try to get a basic page
> working to show sometime next week.

You can do only muckups if you want ... or explaning you ideas.

>
> Another change I have thought of is being able to decide whether or not
> a Read More... is necessary, rather than having it cut automatically at
> x chars. Maybe another field in the news table "ReadMoreText" or
> something that gets added on the end of the article when Read More...
> is clicked.

Well, so i think what would be the simpliest is two fields, a first one for
introduction, and a second one with the article. So there, you could cut
wherever you want. Here, a readmore checkbox wouldn't be necessary cause if
the article field is empty, it doesn't put a read more link.
Good ?


Happy new year !!!!!

Rémi
ps: i will be in Ireland since tomorrow to the fourth of january, so it's
possible i do not answer very quicly or perhaps not at all before that.