Re: [Chategory-devl] Versioning: Chategory 2.0, 3.0

[Jonathan F. <jo...@sl...>]

I think having a built-in updates would be awesome. Like you go to the 
admin cp and it says, "New updates available! <link>See what's 
new</link> or <link>go ahead and upgrade</link!>" The second link would 
be to something like "upgrade.php" (obviously it'd be secure for admins 
only) and would overwrite the PHP of other files (and possibly even 
itself, if necessary) based on the remote PHP source code that would be 
available on SF.net.

I'm not sure if I explained that thoroughly before (my memory evades me, 
as the idea has been running around in my head for quite some time), but 
I believe that would be an extremely cool feature, and plus it would 
highly encourage upgrading. I'm running Wordpress 1.5x and Wordpress 
tells me when there are updates, but I don't feel like it's worth 
upgrading unless I need to in order to make use of a plugin of some 
sort. If there was a link that said "Click here to upgrade 
automatically," I'd upgrade each time a new version is released.

Where is Zach, by the way? Ignoring the mailing list? Tsk, tsk.

Bob F wrote:
> Templating system isn't giving me problems, it was archiving. But that's 
> mainly because of my backwards (literally) naming scheme. I confused 
> myself using a $back variable for going forward and ++ when I should -- 
> and the like. Simpler now then I originally thought it would be, 
> wonderous what looking at something afresh can do.
> 
> Mike, I think you'll be happy to here about our new templating system we 
> have planned. If you've ever used wordpress or textpattern or any number 
> of PHP apps that use these things, you'll be familiar. Basically, we're 
> going to have four template pages that users can modify to their own 
> pleasing: Header, Footer, Navigation, Posts. So admins will have almost 
> total control over the HTML used (except for things like UBB code which 
> we'll generate on our own, of course). So users can totally incorporate 
> Chategory into their website exactly as they please, even making the 
> HTML fit in. They have control of everything before, and everything 
> after Chategory, they have control over the markup for the navigation 
> (This is chategory navigation - Home, Users Online, User Control Panel, 
> ect.) and how posts are presented. So if you want the posts displayed in 
> an unordered list, you can do it. If you want them to be all one line, 
> go ahead. If you want to have the post text, followed by the poster's 
> name, followed by the date then you can do it.
> 
> This was Zach's idea I believe, and I think it offers a great degree of 
> customization. We will, however, ship with a default template so that 
> Chategory is ready to go out of the box. Also, it's a lot easier to edit 
> what's already there instead of starting from scratch so this should 
> really ease it for admins. I'm also thinking of having an update script, 
> if possible,  which will make Chategory look the exact same on upgrading 
> to save existing users from any hassles that might pop up. Just an idea 
> for now, but I think it's doable.
>