RE: [Phpwebsite-developers] Pagemaster & Categorizer

[Roland, R. M <rmr...@in...>]

I tried to send this a few days ago, but it didn't go through.  So =
here's attempt number 2.

>> In fact, it looks like a single element can not
>> only have multiple children, but possily multiple parents(?)
>> [getParents()].

>No, they can only have one parent (although their parent may have a
>parent). This is just a misleading function name.

Perhaps getAncestors() and getDescendants() or something


>> This leads me to suggest that maybe fatcat could have
>> some predefined categories (Images, Links, etc), then a module can =
create
>> its own children of those

>Interesting thought. We will talk more about this.

Sounds good. Let me know what your thoughts are on this.


>> In this setup, an important function would be the
>> 'getAllElements(category)'
>> One question about this.  When returning elements belonging to a =
category,
>> do you return elements belonging to a parent of that cagtegory? =
(Perhaps a
>> parameter switch [getAllElements(category,returnParentElements)]). =
This
>> way if I want to add an image to a Pagemaster page, I get not only
>> Image>Pagemaster elements, but generic Image elements as well.

>Originally I was going to do this but it seemed like a lot of data that
>not many people would use. We can look at allowing this through better
>interface however.

Thanks.  As I said, maybe just an optional parameter that when supplied =
returns the elements of parent categories as well.


>PageMaster was written with our university users in mind. Because few =
of
>them know HTML, it was easier to split the material into sections to =
make
>its appearance more pleasing. What I would suggest is the option to =
have
>an expert mode.

Excellent idea, just a change of interface and some small tweaks.  I'd =
be willing to work on this if I knew what Adam's plans are regarding his =
rewrite.


>> 4) Expand the size of the input window and allow a page to be a =
single
>> entity (ie no sections).

>Not sure how Adam will wish to treat this. It would be nice however if =
the
>user could set their window size to increase the width of the text =
area.

Yeah, that'd be nice, but that's another option to have to save in the =
DB, and there's currently no pagemaster_options table so that might not =
be worth the difficulty.


>> 6) When editing a page, clicking on the image button will bring up a =
small
>> window (similar to the help windows) with the 'Add Image' interface.
>> Perhaps a button "Add Internal Image" and "Add External Image".

>Possible, but would require some javascript programming (which I am not
>great at). Also there would need to be an alternate interface for those
>who don't run javascript.

I agree.  Man I hate Javascript ... or more accurately, its splintered =
support and yet growing importance and use.


>> 8) The uploading of the images could be handled by the document =
manager.

>Depending on the module, that could be kind of a pain switching in and =
out
>of modules.

Let me get back to you on that.



Thanks again for the feedback,


Ryan Roland

Application Developer
Information Technology Department
Division of Recreational Sports
Indiana University

rmr...@in...
Office: 812.855.9617
Cell: 812.320.0032


Thanks,


Ryan Roland

Application Developer
Information Technology Department
Division of Recreational Sports
Indiana University

rmr...@in...
Office: 812.855.9617
Cell: 812.320.0032