Anyone working on a version of this plugin for 6.x?
If so, I would like to suggest that the concept be broken into two parts. The first would grab headlines from selected sources continuously, say every 10 minutes, and stuff them into database. The second would grab from the database, on a per-user basis, and scroll them in a box until a user selects one to be displayed in the main window. This would lessen the fetches to the news provider by a factor of n for n users.
Or is there such a beast?
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I've already completed the conversion of headlines to the new module format. It already is set up to only grab headlines when they are older than a set time.
I have thought it would be nice to add the storyscroller script to the headlines so it only displays one block with all the headlines scrolling, maybe in a later revision.
As for blocks that show up on a per user basis, I know that Slashcode does it, so it isn't impossible. There are a lot of per user functions I'd like to set up, but I'd have to augment user.php to add those features so that they can all be controlled from a central location.
Ed
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That's great. Where can we find the conversion for 8.1?
By per user, I meant each user would update headlines as is done now but from the databaseinstead of from the source provider. With hundreds of users (or more) it would still be just one query every 10 minutes instead of hundreds.
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Anyone working on a version of this plugin for 6.x?
If so, I would like to suggest that the concept be broken into two parts. The first would grab headlines from selected sources continuously, say every 10 minutes, and stuff them into database. The second would grab from the database, on a per-user basis, and scroll them in a box until a user selects one to be displayed in the main window. This would lessen the fetches to the news provider by a factor of n for n users.
Or is there such a beast?
I've already completed the conversion of headlines to the new module format. It already is set up to only grab headlines when they are older than a set time.
I have thought it would be nice to add the storyscroller script to the headlines so it only displays one block with all the headlines scrolling, maybe in a later revision.
As for blocks that show up on a per user basis, I know that Slashcode does it, so it isn't impossible. There are a lot of per user functions I'd like to set up, but I'd have to augment user.php to add those features so that they can all be controlled from a central location.
Ed
That's great. Where can we find the conversion for 8.1?
By per user, I meant each user would update headlines as is done now but from the databaseinstead of from the source provider. With hundreds of users (or more) it would still be just one query every 10 minutes instead of hundreds.
The conversion is now in the files section. Grab it and play with it.
Ed