[pLog-general] Notes, quesitions and comments

[Nicholas Gerakines]

Hey folks,

Although I am a bit of a bumm I'm trying to stay involved any way I can. 
I've recently upgraded to the lastest, as of 02Nov2004, source tree as 
well as MySQL 4.1.x. I've got a few notes and remarks.

* Updating/Adding posts was broken at first, StringValidator.class.php 
wasn't included. quick fix.
* Admin interface is sexy and easy to use. I think thats the coolest part.
* Still havn't uncovered how to use plugin objects in the templates. 
$karma->Xxx is broken and returns error.
* Noticed a slight speed increase.
* Monthly, aka archive, links is working. Much easier. I've removed 
links to category views because of the huge amount of resources it uses 
when trying to pull all 300+ articles from a catagory. Paging plugin 
sounds sexy.
* Searching is very handy, I've gotten some positive responses from that.
* Had a few random errors with pluginmanager. Haven't traced through 
them but will post if i run accross them again.
* Havn't tried subdomains but its on the agenda.
* Register.php is missing, is that no longer in use?
* What is the stub_post field when creating new posts? How will that be 
used?
* Feature request for function to only pull article text after the 
extended text seperator. Didn't see it in there. That way we could also 
use the intro/brief text area as a article summary/preview that isn't 
shown when the full article is viewed.
* Resource manager seems much cleaner, good job.
* Havn't played with the bays. filtering, suggest a way to turn it off 
indefinately and to not create database entries when comments are made. 
Also function to truncate the table and re-create rules would be nifty. 
Could be an admin cleanup feature.
* Havn't had to block anyone, searching for aol users.
* Looking at postgres sql structure, any ideas on creating compatable 
queries. Would be interesting to create a class that is called to build 
queries and then the class, based on db type in use, create queries on 
certain types. MySQL 3.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x and Postgres all have version 
specific functions. MySQL 4.1.x also has some very cool speed 
enhancements as well as subqueries.
   Example: select * from articles where (id, blog.name) = (select 
max(id), blog from users group by id);

I think thats it for now. Have questions? Please ask! I'm liking it alot 
so far and look forward to an official release.

~ Nick