Re: [Phpslash-devel] Blocks Everywere, Navbar control

[Joe S. <joe...@us...>]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:17:04AM -0400, Mike Gifford wrote:
> Hello psl folks,
> 
> I'm writing mostly to find out when the new block feature that you've
> been working on is likely to get released.  I'm not sure when the next
> release is planned, but am planning to put out a new release of Back-End
> CMS very soon.
> 

Glad to see Back-End development proceeding.  I've been busy moving our
office.  So hopefully will get cranked back up soon.

So no release from me planned yet.

> One of the contributors to Back-End has created some code for bottom
> blocks to allow for some navigational elements to be dropped in directly
> here.  This sounded to me like a lot like the flexibility that the PSL
> team is working for.
> 

phpSlash supports this with just changing a couple of things now.  The
-dev branch does already support top and bottom blocks.

> I also wanted to know if there was any attempt to extend the ability to
> turn on/off navbar links from the config.ini.php file.  I do think it
> would be useful to allow the more detailed control over what appears in
> the navbar than by simply turning on/off a module.  Certainly for things
> like the links. 
> 

I'd like to see some patches for this, or a web management interface.

I stalled on it with what seemed to be a limitation of the "ini" array
stuff being limited to one level rather than having nested arrays.

later,

Joe

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