[Phpslash-devel] Re: mailinglist status

[Luis M <le...@ho...>]

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>Hello,
>
>Do you have the mailinglist working for your site now with the
>changes we made?
>
>If so, can you apply the appropriate changes to the -ft cvs?
>
>I'd like to get a RC release going soon.

Yes. The mailing list has been working for some time in my "production" site 
with no hiccups. I'll be doing the diff'ing and applying changes to -ft very 
soon.

There are couple of things we need to keep in mind for 0.7.2 before 
considering RC's:

1. getTitleBar doesn't have a STORY_ID variable (container). Before I had 
titles that when you click on then get you to the story ( a la "MORE" link). 
For some reason, after upgrading one of my production sites to 0.7.1 I lost 
this functionality. I'm not sure if it has to do with phplib or that's the 
way things were in previous versions of phpslash and we somehow changed this 
for the 0.7.1 release... What I mean is that STORY_ID was declared somewhere 
and as te templates for slashhead() were parse, somehow that container was 
still active when getTitleBar() got called... In short, having this variable 
available for titles don't hurt. We would love to let people click on MORE 
or the TITLE of the story to go to the whole article ... it's just natural.

2. there should be a way to declare arrays/containers/hashes directly from 
the config.ini.php file (or somewhere else) so that the user can just do 
things in that file (or maybe thru the "admin" links right into the 
database) and don't need to modify the slashhead() calls to get variables 
declared at the slashhead(). For instance, prior to 0.7.1, I had to do 
things like:

$banner=random_image("file.txt");
slashHead(...,...,"",$banner);

This means that I had to modify the functions.inc and e/a slashHead() call 
for e/a script/page I wanted to show a random banner chosen from a file... 
painfull to maintain and upgrade!

Thanks goodness that you changed slashHead() to get an $extra_ary hash for 
which keys will be taken as containers for the templates, now I can just do:

$banner["RANDOM_IMAGE"]=random_image("file.txt");
slashHead(...,...,$banner);

And things work as expected. You are a genius :-D This functionality should 
be added to the manual for other webmasters out there who use phpslash for 
their customers ;-) People love to have banners and other "commercials" in 
their sites.

3. We should stress the poll (system: classes, functions, pages, admin 
pages) to make sure that we took care of all "known" bugs. I'll be doing 
this ASAP and I'll let you know if I find something that needs to be 
changed.

I think that's it for now. If I remember other things I'll let you know as I 
find them.

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Luis Mondesi
System Administrator
LatinoMixed.com

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