[Phpslash-devel] embracing the future

[Mike G. <mi...@op...>]

Hi Luis,

I know nothing about the phpslash-dev site, but I am quite interested in
offering what Back-End has learned/used for adding/editing documents.

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 23:24, 
> 1. xml-rpc support: for things like transfering files from one computer to 
> the server and for posting stories in a "blog" kind of way using nifty tools 
> like gnome-blog and/or whatever other xml-rpc-compliant software the user 
> might choose. It's a matter of deciding:
>     a. what protocol to use
>     b. how to implement it in a way that can be easily turned on or off
>     c. having volunteers to work on this (Joe?, myself... etc...)
>     d. try not to reinvent the wheel (copy other GPL projects' ideas if 
> possible)

Well OK..  We've got no experience with this, but sounds great!

> 2. a consistent way to input text when creating new entries for stories, or 
> posting comments, etc... We talked about using Phorum-like syntax: 
> [url][/url] and the like, since that's very common nowadays on the internet.

Why not give your users the option of entering/editing stories using the
editing syntax that they choose?

Back-End has added a wiki text editor mode and an implementation of
htmlArea3 to psl's present options.  Giving users options is a good
thing.  Adding an option for phorum-like syntax could be a useful option
too.  For the wiki text we added an extra column for both the parsed
html as well as the original wiki content.

> 3. having a way to input data by using JavaScript or whatever is standard 
> nowadays for all main browsers. again, we will need a way to turn this off 
> for those who don't care, but for those of us who do, it's just a good thing 
> to have. it works for Phorum...

htmlArea3 is pretty good..  There's even a spell check module.  The best
thing is that it works in Mozilla & IE so I can actually test it.

> Comments anybody? Features I'm missing?

I also like the idea of being able to just upload the html of a story
rather than having to copy/paste it.

Would be also useful to allow folks to turn on/off modules through the
web interface rather than through the config.ini.php

Also, we had talked about an installer in the past for psl/be.. 
Wondered if you had a chance to check out Back-End's new installer
script.  Makes an installation pretty quick.

Mike
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