RE: [Phpwebsite-developers] Roadmap

[Geoff S. <Ge...@Ho...>]

HERE'S MY QUESTION: WHAT CORE "SERVICES" DOES THE BASE SYSTEM NEED TO
PROVIDE TO PLUG-INS?

There are certain things that will be common across many plug-ins. These
things should be part of the core. Some of the things I've thought about
that would be common across many plug-ins are:

Administrative services should extend to plug-ins. For example, if the
system allows separate administrators for topics or sub-topics, sub-webs,
whatever, this should extend across plug-ins that use topics, sub-topics,
etc.

Mailing list functionality - the ability to have mailing lists for a plug-in
that can be setup when someone registers for a login id.

Themes - plug ins should be able to "inherit" the theme from the site.

I'm hoping that we can come up with a complete list of the services that the
core system should provide to plug-ins.

Geoff

-----Original Message-----
From: php...@li...
[mailto:php...@li...]On Behalf Of
Todd Owen
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 8:24 PM
To: php...@li...
Subject: Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Roadmap


> We need to decide what the final form of the existing phpWebsite will be.
It
> should be a tool that only works with mySQL and is compatible with php3
and
> php4. This product would be "functionally stable". That means bug fixes
> only - no further enhancements.
Agreed!  We'll leave it mySQL only, good idea.

> ALSO, when someone registers for a login id, they would be presented
> a list of email subscriptions, some of which were put there by plug-ins.
This "alert" function seems interesting to me.  Is anyone working on a
detailed design proposal for this?  I am working on my core proposal, which
I hope to publish no later than Monday (even if slightly incomplete).  The
"alerts" won't be in it however.

> The big deal here is this: topics, subtopics, etc. should be setup once
and
> available to news stories, the links subsystem, discussion forums, and all
> plug-ins that require the information. When someone registers, they should
> be able to put in their information once and have it used throughout the
> system so that their is no duplicate entry of information for each
plug-in.
Is this what everyone wants?  This is where I'm currently working.  If we do
want the "topics" and "subtopics" to be consistant across the organization,
then this needs to be in the core.  Once the topics are defined for each
organization, then the plug-in modules can draw on them (topics)
immediately.

--Todd




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