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[Slashcode-development] No more cowards in Messaging

[Christopher W. <cw...@jo...>]

I've replaced the term "Anonymous Coward" throughout my blog =97 but =
it's=20
popping up in Messages, their subjects and the content, and I can't=20
seem to figure out where it's coming from.

I changed reply_msg;comments and reply_msg_subj;comments =97 but that=20
doesn't seem to do it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: [Slashcode-development] Slash Wiki plugin... Needs a home.

[Bill S. <wsk...@sp...>]

Hi Gerry,

Gerry Gleason wrote:

> When I'm not thinking completely straight, I want to adapt this tool 
> for use with Slashcode.  The idea would be a versioned content 
> management systems for testing and development, then you would upload 
> the content to the database as a complete release.  Basically, I want 
> the versioned content management system for the "authored" parts of 
> the content, but I still want the comment system and fast database 
> implementation of Slashcode. 


So it sounds like you basically want to have a Wiki, that only those 
with privileges can edit -- (versioning is part of the Wiki), but still 
have the comment system as implemented by Slash.  Sorry, just thinking 
out loud so that I'm clear.

This is a great idea, and I bet that it wouldn't be too out of the 
question to implement using chromatic's stuff as a base.  (I'm assuming 
you're speaking of written content though, and not code content)  The 
"upload file as bodytext" functions already exist elsewhere, you could 
implement this without too much trouble probably... 

I'd also like to look into chromatic's Wiki module, because this could 
also be extended to allow more tags.  I looked around at other Wikis and 
found that there are some tags like "==" that indicate a <h2> font or 
whatever.  I saw another that made WikiWords in a grey color if their 
page(s) hadn't been defined yet.  That was another good idea.

Regardless, I think the Wiki concept is pretty cool.  It was hard to 
explain to the guys in my department.  Funny how something so simple can 
be so effective.  For pages like FAQs and whatnot, it's the ticket.  The 
problem is that I can't get people to contribute!!

--Bill

Re: [Slashcode-development] Slash Wiki plugin... Needs a home.

[Gerry G. <ge...@ge...>]

I played around with the Wiki plugin a while back, and although it 
seemed to pretty much work, it wasn't really what I wanted.

FWIW, I found a Wiki with source control back end (SubWiki, uses 
Subversion), and I've been hacking it for a while to generalize it to
HTML and XML pages.  It's in Python, so I had to learn python for it,
but it has come along quite nicely so far.

When I'm not thinking completely straight, I want to adapt this tool 
for use with Slashcode.  The idea would be a versioned content 
management systems for testing and development, then you would upload 
the content to the database as a complete release.  Basically, I want 
the versioned content management system for the "authored" parts of the 
content, but I still want the comment system and fast database 
implementation of Slashcode.

Gerry Gleason


On 2003.12.06 05:38 Bill Skellenger wrote:
> Is anyone using the Wiki plugin that was written by chromatic a 
> couple of years ago?
> 
> I installed it and it crashed whenever I tried to save a page.  I 
> found the bug and fixed it.  But this plugin isn't being maintained 
> by anyone.  An e-mail to chr...@or... produced no response.
> 
> I've also changed a few other things -- added an "Edit" button and 
> made the input form into a new template.  This way the input form 
> isn't always visible until a user actually wants to make a change.  
> Made the text area into a table with a single cell that has a shaded 
> background -- sets the Wiki area off a little better.
> 
> At any rate, this was my first experience with a Wiki and I thought 
> it worked out well on my Slash site (engineering department page on 
> company intranet).  Would like to pass along the changes I've made 
> (including bug fix -- perhaps someone has a more elegant solution 
> than what I've done) for anyone interested.  Does anyone have 
> suggestions on how to proceed?
> 
> All of these plugins add an overwhelming amount of new functionality 
> to Slash...  (Blob, FAQster, Wiki, Galleria, etc.)  Is there a 
> central location where all of the plugins are documented?  If not, is 
> there a place where we could start doing this?  (A Wiki would be a 
> great place to do this!)
> 
> --Bill
> 
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Re: [Slashcode-development] Slash Wiki plugin... Needs a home.

[Shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Dec 6, 2003, at 6:38 AM, Bill Skellenger wrote:

> Is anyone using the Wiki plugin that was written by chromatic a couple 
> of years ago?
>
> I installed it and it crashed whenever I tried to save a page.  I 
> found the bug and fixed it.  But this plugin isn't being maintained by 
> anyone.  An e-mail to chr...@or... produced no response.
>
> I've also changed a few other things -- added an "Edit" button and 
> made the input form into a new template.  This way the input form 
> isn't always visible until a user actually wants to make a change.  
> Made the text area into a table with a single cell that has a shaded 
> background -- sets the Wiki area off a little better.
>
> At any rate, this was my first experience with a Wiki and I thought it 
> worked out well on my Slash site (engineering department page on 
> company intranet).  Would like to pass along the changes I've made 
> (including bug fix -- perhaps someone has a more elegant solution than 
> what I've done) for anyone interested.  Does anyone have suggestions 
> on how to proceed?

Some of the OSDN guys should know how to get a hold of him, if he's not 
on this listserv.

I would suggest getting the original author's consent/OK and submitting 
the project to Sourceforge. That way you can keep going with it, if you 
choose to, and others can help you out with it, if you want them to.

>
> All of these plugins add an overwhelming amount of new functionality 
> to Slash...  (Blob, FAQster, Wiki, Galleria, etc.)  Is there a central 
> location where all of the plugins are documented?  If not, is there a 
> place where we could start doing this?  (A Wiki would be a great place 
> to do this!)

There's this:

http://slashcode.com/search.pl?topic=24

There used to be a plugin that was used on Slashcode to keep track of 
all the plugins. You can view it's source here:

http://cvs.slashcode.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/unsupported/plugins/Repository/

I think it was more or less moved to the unsupported because of 
lackoftime to keep it working with current-cvs-slash (imho).

I started a plugin-manager plugin for my own use earlier this year. I 
never finished it. I can put it up in CVS if you want to try it.

  Shane

[Slashcode-development] Slash Wiki plugin... Needs a home.

[Bill S. <wsk...@sp...>]

Is anyone using the Wiki plugin that was written by chromatic a couple 
of years ago?

I installed it and it crashed whenever I tried to save a page.  I found 
the bug and fixed it.  But this plugin isn't being maintained by 
anyone.  An e-mail to chr...@or... produced no response.

I've also changed a few other things -- added an "Edit" button and made 
the input form into a new template.  This way the input form isn't 
always visible until a user actually wants to make a change.  Made the 
text area into a table with a single cell that has a shaded background 
-- sets the Wiki area off a little better.

At any rate, this was my first experience with a Wiki and I thought it 
worked out well on my Slash site (engineering department page on company 
intranet).  Would like to pass along the changes I've made (including 
bug fix -- perhaps someone has a more elegant solution than what I've 
done) for anyone interested.  Does anyone have suggestions on how to 
proceed?

All of these plugins add an overwhelming amount of new functionality to 
Slash...  (Blob, FAQster, Wiki, Galleria, etc.)  Is there a central 
location where all of the plugins are documented?  If not, is there a 
place where we could start doing this?  (A Wiki would be a great place 
to do this!)

--Bill

Re: [Slashcode-development] Public messages

[Shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Dec 3, 2003, at 6:12 PM, Christopher Winn wrote:

> In any of your experiences, do you think it would tax the 
> database/slashd too much to open up the Messages system
> for everyone to use?  Essentially for use in sending messages back and 
> forth to one another?  Would this be relatively
> easy to implement through messages.pl ?
>
> Thank you.
>

I did it for one of my sites, never had any problems because of it.

[Slashcode-development] Public messages

[Christopher W. <cw...@jo...>]

In any of your experiences, do you think it would tax the 
database/slashd too much to open up the Messages system
for everyone to use?  Essentially for use in sending messages back and 
forth to one another?  Would this be relatively
easy to implement through messages.pl ?

Thank you.

[Slashcode-development] Scoop & Slash on same server?

[Blake C. <li...@li...>]

Hi All,
Someone wants to run a scoop powered site on my server, and I'm guessing
this is a bad idea, or atleast a bad idea to run them on the same apache
instance? Am I correct in guessing the best/easiest thing to do would be to
fire up a second apache instance for them?

--------------
Blake Carver
LISNews.com
Librarian & Information Science News
http://www.lisnews.com

Re: [Slashcode-development] Expanding Slash...searching users

[Clifton W. <cl...@sl...>]

On Wednesday 19 November 2003 18:08, Shane wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2003, at 3:10 PM, Christopher Winn wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been playing around with Slash::Search lately.  I'm trying
> > to compile some data into a template that effectively says,
> > "Here are all the users who have a maxcommentsize of 1048." For
> > example.  Or, "Here are all the users who have entered a
> > nickname in their preferences." And then spew out that list.
> >
> > However, I'm having trouble calling the correct search call.  Is
> > there a way to specifically search for all the users who have,
> > for example, selected that they live in California? (an option
> > which of course was added into users_param)..
>
> Take a look at
>
> http://cvs.slashcode.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/slash/plugins/Search/Searc
>h.pm? rev=1.61&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
>
> sub findUsers
>
> It only searchs against the users table:
>
> my $tables = 'users';
>
> So you'd have to add a join on users_param (that table name might
> not be right) inorder to get the behavior you want.

Here's a suggestion: 

Instead of trying to hack this on to search, it might be better to 
create a plugin (and the code) to do such advanced user searches.

Once you get into creating custom queries, it's always a good idea to
think about creating a plugin, unless you think MOST sites are going 
to want to use the functionality.

- Cliff

Re: [Slashcode-development] Expanding Slash...searching users

[Shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Nov 19, 2003, at 3:10 PM, Christopher Winn wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been playing around with Slash::Search lately.  I'm trying to  
> compile some data into a template that effectively says, "Here are all  
> the users who have a maxcommentsize of 1048." For example.  Or, "Here  
> are all the users who have entered a nickname in their preferences."   
> And then spew out that list.
>
> However, I'm having trouble calling the correct search call.  Is there  
> a way to specifically search for all the users who have, for example,  
> selected that they live in California? (an option which of course was  
> added into users_param)..
>

Take a look at

http://cvs.slashcode.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/slash/plugins/Search/Search.pm? 
rev=1.61&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

sub findUsers

It only searchs against the users table:

my $tables = 'users';

So you'd have to add a join on users_param (that table name might not  
be right) inorder to get the behavior you want.

  Shane

[Slashcode-development] Expanding Slash...searching users

[Christopher W. <cw...@jo...>]

Hi,

I've been playing around with Slash::Search lately.  I'm trying to 
compile some data into a template that effectively says, "Here are all 
the users who have a maxcommentsize of 1048." For example.  Or, "Here 
are all the users who have entered a nickname in their preferences."  
And then spew out that list.

However, I'm having trouble calling the correct search call.  Is there 
a way to specifically search for all the users who have, for example, 
selected that they live in California? (an option which of course was 
added into users_param)..


Any help would be greatly appreciated.



Chris.

Re: [Slashcode-development] AOL problems?

[Shane <sh...@lo...>]

And the version of slash you are using is.... ?
And the version of apache you're using is.... ?
And you're using a proxy? Y/N... ?

You need to supply some more information....

On Nov 17, 2003, at 9:23 AM, Christopher Winn wrote:

> AOL users are having problem with the formkeys of my Slash site....  
> Best ways to get around this?...
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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[Slashcode-development] AOL problems?

[Christopher W. <cw...@jo...>]

AOL users are having problem with the formkeys of my Slash site.... 
Best ways to get around this?...

Thanks!

Re: [Slashcode-development] Alternate passwd systems.

[Clifton W. <cl...@sl...>]

On Tuesday 11 November 2003 09:56, Chris Johnson wrote:
>      Has any work been done on alternate passwd systems?  I'm
> specifically interested in NIS.

No work has been done specifically for NIS, but I don't see 
the problem in making, say, a Slash::Apache::User::NIS and using
that as a PerlAccessHandler for your site.

As best I understand it: your handler should return DECLINED if 
decides to pass access handling along to another module, FORBIDDEN 
if the user is denied access (ie banned) or OK if the user has 
authenticated properly. If you need to redirect the user to another 
URI/URL for some reason, initialize the redirect and return 
REDIRECT. And, of course, to make matters more confusing, if you 
expect to handle SSL logic, that should be done here as well.

After looking at Slash::Apache::User::handler(), I'm not quite
so sure as to how well using DECLINED will work. I suspect
that returning DECLINED would allow you to pass control along
to another PerlAccessHandler, that way you could use the proposed 
Slash::Apache::User::NIS, and if necessary, fall back to 
Slash::Apache::User. I think it's possible, but you might want to
do a little research on the internals of a PerlAccessHandler to 
be sure.

There's a load of other stuff, you might want to try and parse
Slash::Apache::User::handler() to see all of the conditions it 
handles and whether or not they are applicable to what you 
are trying to do.

Hope this is enough to get you started.

- Cliff

[Slashcode-development] Alternate passwd systems.

[Chris J. <jo...@nm...>]

     Has any work been done on alternate passwd systems?  I'm
specifically interested in NIS.

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Re: [Slashcode-development] changing mode on static pages...

[Shane <sh...@lo...>]

yes

http://software.lottadot.com/faqster.pl? 
op=view&faqid=1&section=software#c_Customizations

same idea. But the table you want is users_comments.
Either change the default in the schema to 'nested' or,
change the value for your anonymous coward uid (probably ==1)

  Shane



On Nov 10, 2003, at 4:12 PM, Christopher Winn wrote:

> When slashd is running, obviously I can hit index.shtml on my site...  
> But when I click through to articles,
> I have no control over the Mode.. which by default is threaded.  Can I  
> move to a default of Nested in
> a static page?

[Slashcode-development] changing mode on static pages...

[Christopher W. <cw...@jo...>]

When slashd is running, obviously I can hit index.shtml on my site... 
But when I click through to articles,
I have no control over the Mode.. which by default is threaded.  Can I 
move to a default of Nested in
a static page?

Re: [Slashcode-development] intermittent block changes.

[Shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Nov 10, 2003, at 8:13 AM, Chris Johnson wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Shane wrote:
>
>> On Nov 7, 2003, at 12:52 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:
>>
>>>  After a while my modified block reappears.
>>
>> It's cached. Stop & start apache to see the new block all the time, or
>> wait for your apache processes to timeout and respawn.
>>
>>
>>
>
>      Started and stop, more then once.  If the block ks cached then
> maybe it's cashed somewhere else.  It still isn't properly updating.
> Are there caching vrs that might help in Slash at all
>

the vars are mentioned on this

http://software.lottadot.com/faqster.pl?op=view&faqid=1&section=software

search it for cache

also make sure you stop && sleep 10 && start
if you don't sleep then sometimes the apache kids haven't finished and 
are still running.

Re: [Slashcode-development] intermittent block changes.

[Chris J. <jo...@nm...>]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Shane wrote:

> On Nov 7, 2003, at 12:52 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:
> 
>  >  After a while my modified block reappears.
> 
> It's cached. Stop & start apache to see the new block all the time, or 
> wait for your apache processes to timeout and respawn.
> 
> 
> 

     Started and stop, more then once.  If the block ks cached then
maybe it's cashed somewhere else.  It still isn't properly updating.
Are there caching vrs that might help in Slash at all

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Re: [Slashcode-development] Re: Weird Slash Behavior / Bad Topics

[Cliff <cl...@sl...>]

On Wednesday 05 November 2003 13:05, Chris Johnson wrote:

>      : : : :  Can we talk about some of your "design decisions"? 
>      : : : : I'm  a bit confused here.

They were not my decisions, so be aware that any talk
here won't necessarily fix things, immediately.

The problem here is that sections and topics are TIGHTLY
coupled, now, so your default section will affect your
default topics when you start the editor.

You must reset the section and "Preview" to get the proper
topics for your section, and you cannot "Preview" until
your story has a title, and I THINK it might need something
in the introtext field, as well.

Here's another thing to try. Try creating a new story again,
don't touch the title or the introtext, just set the section
and see if you can see your new topics.

- Cliff

Re: [Slashcode-development] intermittent block changes.

[Shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Nov 7, 2003, at 12:52 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:

 >  After a while my modified block reappears.

It's cached. Stop & start apache to see the new block all the time, or 
wait for your apache processes to timeout and respawn.

[Slashcode-development] intermittent block changes.

[Chris J. <jo...@nm...>]

     Hi again,

     Have a new and bizzare problem.  

     On the standard slash install home screen in the right column,
3rd block down we see Quick Links, a realization of the index_qlinks
block.  I modified it to contain the appropriate HTML for a link and
saved it but not as the default.  So then I went back to the home
page.  A my changes showed up, the link I had just added was there.
Then, after some looking at other pags, I went back and the old block
was back and my just added link was gone.  After a while my modified
block reappears.

     Now, index_qlinks is checked as a static or slash block when I
call up the blocks page.  But the portold box is also checked.  I know
that some blocks are generated on the fly.  I thought this was supposed
to be static block.  Obviously there's some confusion somewhere.  

     Help appreciated.

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Re: [Slashcode-development] Re: Weird Slash Behavior / Bad Topics

[Chris J. <jo...@nm...>]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Clifton Wood wrote:

> >From admin.pl, around line 1351:
> 
>         my $topic_values = $slashdb->getDescriptions('topics_section', 
> $storyref->{section});
>         $topic_select = createSelect('tid',
>                 $topic_values,
>                 $storyref->{tid}, 1, 0, 1
>         );
> 
> This is where the topic list is generated, there are a few things you 
> can try, here:
> 
> >From the command line:
> 
> perl -MSlash::Test=<vu> -le 'print 
> Dumper($slashdb->getDescriptions("topics_section", $section)'

     Oh this is interesting.  I get absolutely nothing.

> 
> Replace $section with the name of a defined section, and "<vu>" with 
> the virtual user of your site. You might want to iterate through the 
> sections, to see which ones are defined, you can do this from the 
> command-line:
> 
> perl -MSlash::Test=<vu> -le 'print Dumper(keys %{$slashdb->getSections()})'

     Thisgives me all the sections ok.

> 
> Collect that output and see if you can find your new topic in ANY of 
> the sections that it should be in. If you want further help 
> interpreting the output, I'd be glad to assist you.
> 
> I *suspect* that the section_topics table may be slightly wonky and
> a mismatched topic ID is the cause of your problem. I would need to
> know the contents of your section_topics table, and your topics 
> table, to be sure, however.
> 
> - Cliff

mysql> select * from slashdotdb.topics\g
+-----+------------+--------------------+--------------+-------+--------+
| tid | name       | image              | alttext      | width | height |
+-----+------------+--------------------+--------------+-------+--------+
|   1 | news       | topicnews.gif      | News         |    34 |     44 |
|   2 | linux      | topiclinux.gif     | Linux        |    60 |     70 |
|   3 | slashdot   | topicslashdot.gif  | Slashdot     |   100 |     34 |
|   4 | slash      | topicslash.gif     | Slash        |    81 |     36 |
|   5 | journal    | topiceditorial.gif | User Journal |    58 |     55 |
|  11 | bad peotry | topiceditorial.gif | Bad Poetry   |    58 |     55 |
+-----+------------+--------------------+--------------+-------+--------+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select * from slashdotdb.section_topics\g
+----------+-----+
| section  | tid |
+----------+-----+
| articles |   1 |
| articles |   2 |
| articles |   3 |
| articles |   4 |
| articles |   5 |
| features |   1 |
| poetry   |  11 |
+----------+-----+
7 rows in set (0.00 sec)

It knows what the section is, "bad poetry", which has a tid of 11.  And 
the section_topics table looks like it knows that section "poetry" and
topic "bad poetry" are related.


> 
> PS: I'm really beginning to loathe some of the things KMail does. I sent this to
> the list days ago from the wrong address (the one I *expressly* told it not
> to use) and it used it anyway and is hung in approvals. I'll just continue
> to send mail to the list from here, but be aware that this message may
> appear twice.
> 
> 

     Redundancy I can deal with.

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[Slashcode-development] Re: Weird Slash Behavior / Bad Topics

[Clifton W. <cl...@sl...>]

=46rom admin.pl, around line 1351:

        my $topic_values =3D $slashdb->getDescriptions('topics_section',=20
$storyref->{section});
        $topic_select =3D createSelect('tid',
                $topic_values,
                $storyref->{tid}, 1, 0, 1
        );

This is where the topic list is generated, there are a few things you=20
can try, here:

=46rom the command line:

perl -MSlash::Test=3D<vu> -le 'print=20
Dumper($slashdb->getDescriptions("topics_section", $section)'

Replace $section with the name of a defined section, and "<vu>" with=20
the virtual user of your site. You might want to iterate through the=20
sections, to see which ones are defined, you can do this from the=20
command-line:

perl -MSlash::Test=3D<vu> -le 'print Dumper(keys %{$slashdb->getSections()}=
)'

Collect that output and see if you can find your new topic in ANY of=20
the sections that it should be in. If you want further help=20
interpreting the output, I'd be glad to assist you.

I *suspect* that the section_topics table may be slightly wonky and
a mismatched topic ID is the cause of your problem. I would need to
know the contents of your section_topics table, and your topics=20
table, to be sure, however.

=2D Cliff

PS: I'm really beginning to loathe some of the things KMail does. I sent th=
is to
the list days ago from the wrong address (the one I *expressly* told it not
to use) and it used it anyway and is hung in approvals. I'll just continue
to send mail to the list from here, but be aware that this message may
appear twice.

Re: [Slashcode-development] Re: Weird Slash Behavior...

[Chris J. <jo...@nm...>]

     Ok, more poking.  After adding a topic, I looked at the source of
the constructed New article page.  We have the following comment,
first place I see it;

     start template: ID 169, select;misc;default 

temple 169 looks ok.  It appears to be generating an ordered list of
topics.  The source of the resulting page just lacks my added topic.
It isn't even a case of bad HTML.  It just isn't there.  

     I've been tracking code in admin.pl.  Am I correct in thinking
that when I click New I end up in admin.pl in the editStory
subroutine?  Or is it someplace else?  I'm trying to find the code
where this templatr was called so I can see where it is getting it's
topic list.   Still learning here.  

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