[pLog-general] Thoughts about summarystats.class.php

[Reto Hugi]

Thanks Oscar! I was once again not as flexible in thinking as pLog is in
providing the features I need. - sorry for taking your time...

reto


On 24.04.2005 17:09, Oscar Renalias wrote:
>> At the moment I can't figure out a easy way to get the 5 most recent
>> articles from my blog. (I'd like to link the five most recent articles
>> on my homepage.)
> 
> $articles = new Articles();
> $amount = 5;
> $blogArticles = $articles->getBlogArticles( $yourBlogId, -1, $amount, 
> POST_STATUS_PUBLISHED );
> 
> For more information on this method, see here: 
> http://www.plogworld.net/api/d3/db7/classArticles.html#a8
> 
>> This problem was already discussed here:
>> http://bugs.plogworld.net/view.php?id=239
> 
> Obviously, SummaryStats was the wrong place to look at... This class 
> implements methods for retrieving data related to all blogs. If all you 
> need is information about one blog, use Articles instead.
> 
>> I think this would be one of those "small improvements" to plog for the
>> 1.0.1 release. I'd like to suggest second solution here:
>>
>> Why not just write a function for the summarystats class which could be
>> named getRecentArticlesOfBlog and would require two params: "number of
>> articles" and "blogID".
> 
> As I said above, you already have Articles::getBlogArticles(). Or take 
> a look at the Articles class, you'll probably find there every single 
> methods you could ever think of...
> 
>> This wouldn't interfere with the current summary pages and would be an
>> easy and fast solution. IMO this function would make many users happy,
>> not running plog as a community blogging tool...
>>
>> I'd even write the function (well I think I'll do it anyway, unless the
>> patch submitted by pest makes it into 1.0.1 in any kind of (modified)
>> version) ;)
>>
>> What do guys think?
>>
>> reto
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