Plans for rewrite
Posted by Michael Dale on Mon, 13 Sep 2004 6:49 PMJust typed out a few things that I'd like to be features for this site when I get time to recode it. Some things may not make sense to you. But here is the basic list:
*Core (installation, mod_rewrite on/off, upgradeable)
*Admin (change password, news reads user details from central table, add users, multi user, editing, deletion, ip address logging)
*Comments (delete, ip block, disable, disable adding more, editing, contact user, website, ip address logging).
*Adding news (XHTML 1.0, trackback, draft, public, different delete thing, link scheme changed)
*Archive (month, day, year, id)
*style (css, which style)
*distribution (RSS (news and comments)), email.
*basic CMS for about/and other pages.
*basic image system (better than current)
If there is a feature that you use in your blogging system that you find useful that isn't here please post it and let me know. Thanks ;)
i have an almost finished stand alone image code ;) ask josh he almost thinks its funky... i dont know why im saying this
oh well
i think yeah those things would all be good, though maybe also a search function of there isnt already one and none of this optional stuff below
where is the mod_fridge compatability. Say you want a icy cool coke and don't want to have to travel ALL the way down to the 'other' fridge just to get one. You get the idea.
Post specific password controls. I presume you've seen it in the past, on my blog, pre-public launch?
Feeds (RSS, XML) for specific posts.
Full-text and Title searches. Fuzzy, too, if you can manage it.
Search term highlighting, from Google/other major engines, and from internal searches.
Under "Link scheme changed", a human readable URI scheme. Because that's very cool. If you don't like the risk of having two things posted on the same day in case things get screwy, build in a "Clarification" function, which retrieves both records from the database, and shows snippets to allow the user to choose which one they want.
I'm sure there's more, but I can't remember off the top of my head. Also, if you don't mind, I'm about to try something crazy with your "Email Address" field...
Damn it, stupid entity code conversion :P Nearly, nearly... ;)
@Stu of the Disco Variety: Good idea, easy to do. Added to the list
@Sphinx^: Feel free to send me the code ;)
@ucosty: apache 2.0.50 has issues with that. Shall wait until 2.1.x
@Joshua Street:
1) The point of a blog site is to read things, not password them. No plans for that. There will be a draft thing though.
2) Maybe bit over the top. Will think about it
3) Yeah would be nice, might not come with the first version
4) Was working on that on the weekend.
Eg: http://blog.dalegroup.net/archive/2004/9/9/1/ (year/month/day/post number on that day). Will do more work on it.
5) When you say crazy do you just mean it should be a website thing instead?
I'm going to add a thing where is remembers your name/email etc too.
1) "Public" drafts, or drafts for collaboration before release, are something that I'd think could be useful. It's not ultra-high-security stuff, but a nice touch IMHO. Whatever:P
2) That depends what you're blogging. If something gets interesting enough to be worth watching for comments, then I'd say do so.
3) Do you mean full text/title/fuzzy searching, or the search term highlighting thing?
4) The URL's still aren't human readable. I think YYYY/MM/DD/textual-description/post-number-with-identical-name would be preferable, with visitors not including the post number hitting a "clarification" page, offering links to both articles with a summary. I'm repeating myself, though, so if you don't want to do it *shrug*:P
5) Err, yeah. I was just seeing if I could hack around it somehow :P
3) both. Although I did have a highlighting thing working a bit, seemed to kill urls though.
4) Yep nice urls are on the list
5) Never!
Some more things to add:
*Option on how much text is displayed on front page before "read more".
*Option on how each post will display (for example: time, poster, title etc). Where things are etc.
I want to do the whole output like wordpress thing. like so you can put in div tags and all that stuff. Just have no idea how to do it. Anyway that is what the end of year is for ;)
Possibly work on a catagories system?