[pLog-svn] Announcing SoylentX.com powered by a souped up Plog

[Jon Daley]

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Jason King wrote:
> I changed the way the login works. Now if you login the dashboard is 
> integrated with the rest of the "menu" its the default page instead of 
> "write and article" also I use a little js driven drop down in the upper 
> right corner to switch between blogs.
 	This sounds nice.  By default the first blog they are associated 
with comes up?  And then if they want another blog, the use the drop down?

> THE BIGGEST PROBLEM with customizing Plog is one that every OS project faces. 
> I as the user/developer want to hack the core so I can make Plog do exactly 
> what I want it to. BUT I also want to take advantage of developments and new 
> versions. How do I do this?
 	I like how RT does it (fsck.com) I guess perl has native support 
for this - where I have RT installed in /usr/share/request-tracker/ and 
but any file that exists in /usr/local/share/request-tracker/ takes 
priority over the /usr/share/ version.
 	Actually, now that I think about it - zencart (written in PHP) has 
a similar thing, effectively templates, with a default template, and if 
you want to overwrite stuff, you make your own subdirectory, and copy 
whatever file you want to change from the parent to your directory, and 
overwrite what you want.  The bad thing is it is an all or nothing sort of 
thing, file by file.  Perl lets you do function by function.


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