[Slashcode-development] multiple sets of articles

[Blake D. <bla...@ch...>]

Our site is being built to have 2 distinct areas of the forum. The first
area will be the standard news slashdot-style area where people submit
articles and if they are interesting, they are posted. The second area will
use the bulletin board plugin we're making so that every article submitted
is automatically posted. These will act as 'threads' or 'topics' as they are
referred to in bulletin board software. Since the 2 areas of the site will
use the same sections, we want to be able to keep the articles posted to the
news area separate so they aren't shown on the bulletin board area. The same
with articles posted to the bulletin board area separate so they don't show
up on the news area. The idea we had for this was to assign every article a
flag in the extratext column. 'news' and 'bb', depending upon which area
they were submitted from. So if you go to the news area it'll only show
stories with the extratext of news and if you go to the bulletin board area
it'll only show stories with the extratext of bb. Does anyone have any
better ideas? If not, does anyone have any ideas to make getStories
recognize the extratext flag we pass it and filter the stories it returns
based on that?

Also, how many other places in the code would we possibly need to modify
this?