and sleep, new stuff is finally in drop.org. This is a quite large
and wide-ranging update, which affects almost all of the system files
in one way or another. I fixed quite a lot of bugs and added quite a
lot of new features, mostly administrative tools as these were really
lacking. It's far from finished but it's a start ...
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* URI/URL enhancements to make the URLs more comprehensive and shorter.
* Fixed a bug in submit.php that slipped in during the latest commit.
* Changed a few tidbits on the calendar.
* Fixed a bug in most themes:
$tid --> $cid
COUNT(tid) --> COUNT(cid)
Updated most themes except for UnConeD's.
* Fixed a handful of problems with Jeroen's theme. However, Jeroen's
theme is still not working yet - some features are completly missing,
making the theme not very useful ...
Any known bugs left? If not, I'll head on tonight and add some new
features. I'll probably add basic admin tools to edit articles and
such. Once done, we can start on the comment moderation.
(1) fixed SQL bug in search.php.
(2) fixed SQL bug in discussion.php.
(3) fixed theme-bug in submit.php.
(4) fixed theme-bug in discussion.php.
(5) fixed Dries2-theme: it more or less works now though
I still have to change the look/layout.
Important:
(3) and (4) did fix the i-suddenly-seem-to-log-out behavior.
stream-lined and more compact. There are a few parts I like to optimize
prior to heading towards comment moderation.
Please test, report bugs and update the footer()-part of your themes a
bit (see my theme)!!!
-- Dries
* <chit-chat>
UnConeD: - what about integrating it in your theme now?
- how was your last exam, btw?
Natrak : - did you arrived well?
Jeroen : - how was your *cough*blind date*cough*?
</chit-chat>
working on it for about 4 a 5 hours today and I considered it would be
smart (backup- or crash-wise) to commit what I have made so far. I'm
aware of a few bugs and I'll keep workin on it:
- removing bugs
- clean up the code to make it very streamlined
- improve error checking
Once we got a stable comment system, I'll add moderation. But right
now I want to sort out the major problems.
* I made my theme the default theme until the other themes are updated.
* Expanded the database abstraction layer with more goodies.
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Wulp. I did a major upgrade by (a) breaking a lot of stuff and (b) by
re-doing those things in a much better way. I redesigned the stories
and submissions SQL tables, the way they work and the way they co-
operate together.
In addition, I changed the way parameters are passed to
$theme->abstract() and $theme->article(). Instead of passing a
sh!tload of parameters that only cluttered the code and required too
much pre-processing on the engine-side, we now pass a singly object
$story. $story has more variables then the paramaters we used to pass,
so it allows for better theming (if you feel like it).
I'm not finished yet but I decided to upload my changes so you can
start patching and updating your themes: PLEASE update your themes
ASAP! I don't plan making heavy changes like this again, so don't
get intimiated. ;) You mainly have to update article() and abstract()
as well as a minor update of footer():
article(), abstract():
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- use the $story object - see my theme!
- the morelink can now be themed. Currently you can use the function
morelink_bytes() in function.inc to `render' the old morelink. The
idea is to make a morelink_words() or morelink_lines() sooner or
later because "188 bytes in body" is not half as clear as "52 words
in body". Clearly, "52 words" is much more informative. ;-)
footer():
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- in the article-part, you need to update the displayRelatedLinks():
instead of passing it $sid, you need to pass it $story (after you
globaled $story).
Everything should display correct on the following pages:
- main page
- article page (follow a `read more | xxx bytes in bdoy | x comments' link)
- submission queue
Check if they work with your theme: they should as they work fine for
me (theme `Dries') ... If you got stuck, just look at my theme or ask
for a hand on the list!
Hopefully you can update your themes asap. Thanks in advance.
number of SQL on the mainpage with factor 10 and shortened the code with 4
lines. There is only *one* optimized SQL query left, being:
$result = db_query("SELECT stories.*, COUNT(comments.sid) AS comments FROM
stories LEFT JOIN comments ON stories.sid = comments.sid WHERE
stories.status = 1 AND stories.time <= $date GROUP BY stories.sid ORDER BY
stories.sid DESC LIMIT $number");
Note: we use a LEFT JOIN to retrieve the number of comments associated
with each story. By retrieving this data now, we elimate a *lot*
of individual queries that would otherwise be required inside the
while-loop. If there is no matching record for the right table in
the ON-part of the LEFT JOIN, a row with all columns set to NULL
is used for the right table. This is required, as not every story
has a counterpart in the comments table (at a given time).
fixed a lot of annoying bugs and boxed whatever there was left to be boxed.
* user.class.php: renamed $user->update() to $user->rehash().
* user.class.php: fixed a typical quote-bug in $user->rehash().
* functions.inc: fixed bug in displayOldHeadlines().
* functions.inc: improved several functions.
* account.php: fixed major bug in showUser().
* account.php: added some extra words to the human-readable
password-generator(tm).
* account.php: boxed ALL functions! Fieuw!
* submit.php: add some general information and guidlines on how to
post submissions.
* config.inc: re-thought the categories to be more generic.
* submission.php: minor changes
* search.pph: fixed minor bug with the author's names.
Woops. I have an exam within 4 hours: back to my books. ;-)
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* Anyone could check sumbit.php, sumbission.php and faq.php for
typoes?
* Anyone could adjust calendar.class.php to fit IE? *huh*huh*
* Don't be scared to hack along (see below)! I'll be working on
the submissions and comments.
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Status of drop v0.10:
(make the system erational' and release it.)
- submissions:
submission queue (75% complete)
submission moderation (75% complete)
- comments:
comment moderation ( 0% complete)
comment administration ( 0% complete)
fixup timestamp mess ( 0% complete)
- user system:
mail password ( 0% complete)
user administation (50% complete)
patch admin.php ( 0% complete)
account confirmation ( 0% complete)
e-mail confimation upon modification of e-mail address
( 0% complete)
- proper handling of forms: text2html, html2text
html2txt, txt2html (10% complete)
bad-word filter (80% complete)
automatic link detection ( 0% complete)
allowed HTML-tag checker ( 0% complete)
- FAQ:
cleanup, disclaimer (50% complete)
- theme:
box everything (100% complete)
(under development). I'll slowly keep adding stuff to admin-new.php
and one day we'll be able to replace admin.php with admin-new.php: I
am just making preparations and `pre-processing' some stuff so we'll
have something to work from. Remind that the rewrite of admin.php is
sheduled for v0.20.
to the outside world. It's a first step towards improving the submission
queue.
* More important (to the theme babies): instead of passing individual
parameters I'm considering to pass an object.
$theme->abstract($story->aid, $story->informant, $story->time,
stripslashes($story->subject), stripslashes($story->abstract),
stripslashes($story->comments), $story->category, $story->department,
$morelink);
would become:
$theme->abstract($story);
What do you guys think about pushing this trough? It would be much better
and would give extra `power' to the themes.
Dries Buytaert
Jeroen Bensch