Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] phpWebSite Core Updates

[Don S. <do...@se...>]

+1 from me as well.  Although it's times like this when I wish I wasn't
authoring so many modules to go back and update.  :)

Don.

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:53:51AM -0700, Richard Sumilang wrote:
> +1 for me
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> On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 07:58  AM, Steven Levin wrote:
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> >Hello everyone,
> >
> >  This list has been very inactive ever since the IRC chat room came
> >about, but I hope to pick things back up again with this discussion I
> >would like to start.  I believe this will be a better forum than chat
> >since not all the module developers hang out there.  As some may have
> >heard, I recently hacked away at phpwebsite and dropped the memory
> >requirements below the 8m php default and cut execution times in half.
> >Now in order for these changes to go into place modules will have to
> >update some of their calls to core functions.  The reason for this is
> >because one of the changes made was to split up the long and=20
> >unnecessary
> >inheritance chain that all the core classes were a part of.  Approval
> >from a majority of the third party developers is crucial in my decision
> >to commit these changes to CVS.   So please let me know how you feel
> >about updating your modules.  Below are examples of some of the updates
> >that need to be made.
> >
> >Before:
> >The core inherited from the PHPWS_Text class so you where able to call
> >the function parseInput() like this:
> >$GLOBALS['core']->parseInput($text_to_parse);
> >
> >Now:
> >The class PHPWS_Text is split off from the core, so you have to do a
> >require_once(PHPWS_SOURCE_DIR.'core/Text.php');
> >at the top of the class file you use the function in and then call it
> >like this:
> >PHPWS_Text::parseInput($text_to_parse);
> >
> >Before:
> >When you wanted to show some content in a block on the left or right
> >side of the site you would have just put the code in your modules index
> >file.
> >
> >Now:
> >Extra content that needs to show up in phpwebsite when your module is
> >NOT running (ie.  announcements and past announcements on the home=20
> >page)
> >now needs to be placed in a file called inc/runtime.php in your module.
> >
> >Ok now the decision needs to be made.  If a majority of the developers
> >vote yes then the changes will go into place.  I have a nice sed script
> >that will do a most of the replacements of old calls for you.  The list
> >of replacements only do the common ones found throughout phpwebsite so
> >you may have some left behind that you will have to fix by hand.   Now=
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> >I
> >am willing to provide assistance upgrading modules in my free time so
> >don't feel like you will have to figure out all the updates on your own
> >cause I am sure there will be some special cases.  Alright all you
> >developers out there fire away.
> >
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> >Steven Levin
> >Computer Systems Admin I
> >Electronic Student Services
> >Appalachian State University
> >Phone: 828.262.6740
> >http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu
> >
> >
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