From: Ryan R. <to...@gm...> - 2004-12-02 05:26:16
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+1 on this one. Something we've been looking at for awhile. I like this approach as well. Ryan Roland Indiana University On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 04:16:36 +0000, Shaun Murray <sh...@ae...> wrote: > This is an idea that's been kicking about my head for a while so I > thought I'd let it out there. > > Currently, some modules allow you to display a block, menu or other > element if another module is on the screen. eg. you can display a menu > with just the linkman module or a block only with announcements. > > Some others, allow you to display an element depending on a pagemaster > page - see phpwsRSSFeeds and kCart. > > There are hacks from users to display blocks, menus etc depending on > the category, if the user is an admin and other kinds of permission > levels. > > These are mostly hacked on afterwards and the interface is often > different and confusing and mixing all the possible conditions in one > interface isn't always simple. In an effort to homogenise these all > into one interface, and perhaps this will fit in with v1.0.0 > permissions too, I thought perhaps we could use a rule based method. > The inspiration was Apple's Mail filtering rules for those familiar > with the idea. > > Here's a non-functioning mockup in html > > http://www.aegisdesign.co.uk/examples/rules/ > > To explain, > > This would be displayed instead of the 'Allow View' option in > blockmaker for example. You click 'enable rules' to switch on the rules > otherwise the default is to always display the element. You can add or > remove rules using the -/+ buttons allowing quite a complex set. I've > added some examples for common things you'd maybe filter on. The > multi-select lists have to be generated when the user changes the > filter type - eg. if they select category, it fills the list with > categories, if they select pages, it fills with pagemaster pages. > > That's the idea. I can see a couple of problems with it already but > maybe they can be overcome. > > 1) selecting a user from a list of a couple of thousand is not viable - > see the Notes module for how that was addressed. > > 2) you might want to filter on a text field - eg. pagemaster page where > title begins with/contains 'some text' > > For the core, I'd guess this is some part of layout in that it would > keep a list of elements and if they were rule enabled or not. Or > perhaps this is useful at a module level so that individual content is > rule based also. A table somewhere else stores the rules. > > For the module developer, it'd be as simple to add in rules editing to > their module as they can with fatcat now. > > Thoughts anyone? > > Shaun > aegis design - http://www.aegisdesign.co.uk > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Phpwebsite-developers mailing list > Php...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpwebsite-developers > |