Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] phpWebSite Core Updates

[Richard S. <ri...@ri...>]

Is this only going to be for 9.4 or is there going to be like 9.3-2?



On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 07:58  AM, Steven Levin wrote:

> 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 
> 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 
> 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 
> 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.
>
> -- 
> Steven Levin
> Computer Systems Admin I
> Electronic Student Services
> Appalachian State University
> Phone: 828.262.6740
> http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu
>
>
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