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

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

Jim Nicholson wrote:

> On 8/27/04 11:49 AM, "Magnus Nordlander" <ma...@no...> wrote:
>
>         [long discussion of why Jim wants meta-creation-date deleted
>         to save bandwidth..]
>
>           
>
>     OK, I see how this could be useful. If the aquisition of the mtime
>     is done with a module overrideable user-function it wouldn't be to
>     hard to make what you want possible, would it?
>
>     Magnus Nordlander
>
> That would do it for creation date. On the other hand, consider this: 
> Before the rawentries call back is invoked, a number of variables 
> exist that contain the post content and the "metadata" for that post - 
> the title, the date, the post pathinfo (the path to the source of the 
> article) etc. If it were (or maybe "is"; my php scoping knowledge is 
> rusty) possible to override the values of any of those variables from 
> within the rawentry callback, then (presumably) any number of 
> extensions could be implemented. Some general ideas might include:
>
>
>     * over-riding the display of the article on the main blog index
>       page to only include the first paragraph, or the article up to a
>       specific flag within the article, as the "seemore" plugin does
>       for blosxom.
>     * completely overriding the format specifications for a post file,
>       so that an entirely different post format could be used to store
>       data. One might would use this, for example, to write certain
>       posts as XML documents, with fields for the "category", "title",
>       "publication date", "abstract", and "content".
>     * Less ambitiously, implementing something like "macro" tags
>       within a post, so that frequently used markup can be easily
>       entered. (for example, on my blog I use this to change things in
>       posts like
>
>         <media type="mp3" filename="foo.mp3">Betty's song</media>
>
>     into markup like
>
>         <div class="media"><a href="/media/foo.mp3"><img
>         src="/images/mp3.gif" border="0"/>Betty's song</a></div>
>
>
> I'm just thinking out loud here, and haven't thought much of this 
> through, so if it's chasing moonbeams, just bring me back to earth.
>
> = Jim
>
>
>
> -- 
>
/me gets his lasso and brings Jim back to earth :P

Those things are already possible using post-formatters.

The only reason date needs to be treated separatly, is because posts get 
sorted and selected by date.

Magnus Nordlander