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

[Oscar Renalias]

well I have to admit that the API has grown so big that I sometimes 
find myself checking the docs every now and then... So it's nothing bad 
if you missed this one :) That's why I put the docs online and why it's 
worth checking whether there is a method that already does what you 
need (98% of the times there'll be one)

Oscar

On 24 Apr 2005, at 18:20, Reto Hugi wrote:

> 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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