Re: [Slashcode-general] Is extracolumns for real?

[Chris N. <pu...@po...>]

At 22:55 +0200 2001.04.12, as...@en... wrote:
>I'm hoping that this is no mirage, that stories can have little extras
>depending on their section. I've gotten as far as seeing "Extra Data for
>This Section" on the story editor -- but no fields to fill in. I see
>extracolumn stuff all over admin.pl. And lines 1921-7 of Slash.pm read:
>
>        # get extra data from section table for this story
>        # (if exists)
>        # this only needs to run for slashdot
>        # why is this commented out?  -- pudge
>        # Its basically an undocumented feature
>        # that Slash uses.
>        #$slashdb->setSectionExtra($full, $story);
>
>Are extra columns functional? How are they accessed?

It has not been tested at all, to my knowledge, in Slash 2.0.  It probably
should have been, since it essentially worked in Slash 1.0, and we will
probably need it again for Slash 2.2.

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