[Phpwebsite-developers] Some responses

[Matt M. <mcn...@ap...>]

I will respond on some of the issues I know about. Others from the team
will answer on their area of expertise (e.g. Adam is the upload image
guru, Brian is the user pages coder).

>Richard Rowell said:

>I discovered PHPWebsite the other day, and I like it save for a few minor 
>things.  These things, listed in ever increasing levels of annoyance, are as 
>follows:
...
>-Sub category system in the calendar is somewhat awkward.
>-MySQL only.

We will be recoding the calendar as a plug-in. Since we will be up to
the elbows in the code, expect major changes. The calendar was centered
squarely on a particular department on campus. Therefore, yes, it is
awkward. This will change. The following is what is planned so far:
1) Categories, subcategories, and locations will be options and not
mandatory,
2) Java windows will open when you click on an event. If Java is not
supported, the info window will open instead,
3) 24 hour time schedule option and the option to not assign a time at
all (All Day events)
4) Changes in the corner calendars. Month view will highlight days that
have events, others will be blank.
5) Overall structure changes, less files, more options, etc.

If you want things to change in the calendar, PLEASE make suggestions
here. 

Karsten Dambekalns sez:

>I was about to try to update from CVS, but it seems that the machine is down
>(browse CVS isn't working either). Anyone else experiencing this?

The CVS server is on a different router than phpwebsite. Unfortunately,
we do not have much control over this. Occasionally you can't access it
but if it makes you feel any better neither can we! Trust me, we are
much more upset about this than anyone else. We are sorry if it causes
people problems and hope it improves in the future.

Karsten Dambekalns notes:
>But then: why ereg_replace()? preg_replace() is faster than that, and in th=
>is
>simple case str_replace() woulb be even faster and no less appropriate! And
>if you change that, then why leave nl2br() in just a few lines below in teh
>code?

I used to use str_replace but I changed to ereg_replace. Don't know why
exactly... But in any case, if str_replace is faster, I will change it.
There are still some nl2br lines out there and I am trying to change
them. If anyone is wondering why we have to change them, nl2br converts
newlines (\n) to break tags <br>. Unfortunately, <br> is not XHTML
compatible so the tag needs to be <br />.
As for alerting the php developers, no we haven't done that yet. Please
alert them and we will as well. In the meantime, I'll change ereg's to
str_replace.

>No offense :-)
None taken ^_~

Finally, the tarball should come out before the earth gets sucked into
our dying sun. Once it does, please review the plugin format and print
feedback.

Best regards,
Matthew McNaney



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