[pLog-general] Notes, quesitions and comments

[Nicholas Gerakines]

>> * Still havn't uncovered how to use plugin objects in the templates. 
>> $karma->Xxx is broken and returns error.
> 
> 
> The karma plugin now works a bit differently than before, since it uses 
> three custom fields to store the karma score of a post: one for positive 
> votes, one for negative votes and a checkbox that tells whether the post 
> is modded down or not. Try to checkout the plugins module and enable the 
> karma plugin. In order to fetch the karma scores of a post, 
> {$post->getFieldValue("positiveKarma")} and 
> {$post->getFieldValue("negativeKarma")} will do. Also manually changing 
> the karma scores has become now as easy as changing the values of the 
> custom fields in the "edit post" page.

I see what you mean. Before though we had karma.php which I can see has 
been replaced with custom actions. In the karma plugin we have the 
function to create the link used to vote. When I try calling it with the 
id of karma, aka $karma->function, it says the object does not exist. Am 
I missing the obvious?

>> * 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.
> 
> 
> I don't understand this... Wasn't it working before? Was there any 
> problem with it?

Ahh. Before it was returning the link <$sitebase>/Object instead of 
<$sitebase>/archives/x/x.

I have a few categories with 300+ posts that are a a big load on my 
server any time someone views that particular category. I'm using the 
archives links and creating the catagory links as plain text. Hope that 
makes sense.

>> * Havn't tried subdomains but its on the agenda.
> 
> 
> I'm really interested in people testing this one!! Please let me know 
> when/if available for testing this.

Will make time this weekend to really play with it.

> 
>> * Register.php is missing, is that no longer in use?
> 
> 
> It's been merged with summary.php (which has also been expanded and 
> improved :))

>> * 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.
> 
> 
> Can you elaborate a bit more? Do you mean something like 
> Article::getExtendedPostText()? You can always change your templates so 
> that main.template shows the intro text while post.template shows the 
> extended text only.
> 

Exactly. I didn't see a function like $article->getExtendedPostText(), 
if its there I'll look harder. I'd like to make my templates use the 
pre-break post text as type of article summary and only show the 
extended text in the actual post template. Won't be hard to modify the 
main page and post.template pages.

> 
>> I think thats it for now. Have questions? Please ask! I'm liking it 
>> alot so far and look forward to an official release.
> 
> 
> I'm really interested in testing the subdomain features, to really see 
> if they work. Also I've been thinking on carrying out some load and 
> stress tests to see how the system will handle it... I think we can find 
> some ready made scripts here: 
> http://forum.mamboserver.com/showthread.php?t=11782
> 
> Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it :)

Always welcome. Its looking real nice so far. For the record I'm 
averaging about 55k hits a month and after changing to the devel source 
the load has been a bit lighter. I'll conduct some _real_ stress and 
load tests and let you know.

~ Nick