Re: AW: [Openinteract-dev] extending base_page: custom directory hand lers

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 11:37, And...@Be... wrote:
> .. this really sounds like a good idea. It probably would ease my plan to
> port Apache::MP3 to OI. 

Oh, this is an interesting idea!

> In a recent post I told you about our plan to add features to base_page to
> build differnt views, which probably come close to these directory handlers.

Kind of -- it sounded more like the homepage you get on
sourceforge.net/my/, which collects relevant information (all
bugs/feature requests/tasks you've created or that are assigned to you,
projects you've bookmarked, projects you're a member of, etc.) -- a
summary page.

> I think, that you need two sorts of directory handlers:
> - one like you described before, where you build the index by reading
> through files of some sort and extracting whatever metainfo or displaying
> them

This will be the standard one, I think.

> - one which looks at who the user is and which rights he has and from this
> build some kind of "portal" with links to the information he shall see

Sure -- this is basically just another OI handler, so you can do
whatever you want. (Now that I think of it, it would probably be cool to
create a 'userpages' package which acts like the mod_userdir apache
module so I could have http://blah/~cwinters/, etc.)

But I want to create as little structure as possible for these -- your
handler will get some extra information in the parameter hashref (the
infamous $p) but that's about it. What you do with it is up to you.

> Also, the type of the "pages" in the Page hierarchy should be irrelevant. It
> does not matter, if the information is in files, some db, an external
> website or dynamically generated. What do you think?

Exactly! If the existing photo stuff isn't adequate then I was planning
to start out using files for captions etc (like Randal's column
discusses) and once that gels and looks good, put items in the database
and make them user-commentable.

Ok, now to find some time to do this... :-)

Later,

Chris

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Chris Winters (ch...@cw...)
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