Re: [Phpblosxom-devel] Introduction, offer, and need advice

[Magnus N. <ma...@no...>]

Jim Nicholson wrote:

>Hi, all
>
>I've been working with blosxom (2.0) for a while, and am fairly familiar
>with the concepts. I run a few MovableType sites as well, so I have a pretty
>good understanding of that.
>
>My "day job" involves coding in Java, Perl and PHP.
>
>I'm giving up on blosxom largely because I can't get mod_rewrite to work
>correctly with my ISP, and I'd rather have /index.php/foo than
>/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/foo in my URLs.
>
>
>For php-blosxom to be useful to me, I need the following:
>
>- support for meta-creation-date: <date> fields in the "header" of posts.
>From what I see, getting this to work will involve patching php-blosxom to
>place the logic for sorting entries by date AFTER the "raw_entry" callback
>is invoked, unless there's some way for a plugin providing that callback to
>manipulate the list of dates.
>
>- A port of textile2. Most of my site is done with textile.
>
>In good ADHD style, since these are essential, I've chosen to begin my work
>on something else. :) That is this: I want to add support for blosxom themes
>(a la the themes plugin) that will let us keep all of the theme HTML
>elements in a single file. (it makes them easier to edit and deploy).
>
>I'd also like to work on getting the category plugin to produce a variety of
>category trees (vertical, indented, maybe even javascript-menu style).
>
>= Jim
>
>  
>
Hi,
I'm not really sure what it is that you want, however I will give some 
comments on the things that you have listed.

- support for meta-creation-date

Why do you need that? You could alter the real creation date with the 
UNIX-command touch. There will be support to change the dates using the 
upcoming webadmin plugin.

- A port of textile2.

 From what I've seen it looks like a standard postformatter, shouldn't 
be too hard to implement.

The category plugin right now is quite a bit short handed.
Any work on that is appreciated.

There is much going on right now.

Currently making is
- An installation script.
- A web based administrative tool.
- Support for trackback
- Support for XML-RPC
- Support for RSS and Atom-feeds.

New in version 0.2 (which is not yet released) is that all modules will 
be, not required to, but encoraged to register themselves, and which 
configuration-keys they use in a $moduleinfo-array. This will be used to 
enable web based configuration of the modules.

Look at for example comments.module in the CVS.

Since you didn't really ask any questions, I can't really answer any :)

Magnus Nordlander