[pLog-svn] dynamic blog settings?

[Jon Daley]

 	Presumably they wouldn't change it often (or more than once), 
correct.  I don't know if I want to limit it to registration though.
 	I am not sure what your last sentence means.  When you say 
"non-admin blog user" do you mean non-site admin?  Then yes, the blog 
owner can change his url.  (perhaps this feature should be restricted to 
blog owner?  I hadn't considered the case where there are multiple users 
per blog, and perhaps other non-owners should have less permissions than 
the owner, though I think we don't usually have that distinction.
 	There are two scenarios where this would be used.

The simple one is the site-admin types in only his domain in the 
available_subdomains field.  Then people can choose whatever 
(non-conflicting) subdomain they want.  This way people can have a 
different URL than the blogname or username, which some people like.  (I 
just realized that when signing up for a blog, we need to check the 
currently assigned subdomains to make sure there isn't a conflict in the 
other direction too)

The complex one is when the site-admin types in a '?' in the available 
domains.  Then, any user can specify any domain he wants in the blog 
settings, as long as that domain is pointing to the current ip (and 
perhaps the validator could check the dns, and at least give a warning if 
the dns isn't right).  So, I could host limedaley.com, groshlink.net, 
sca.salemsattic.com and jon.limedaley.com all on the same lifetype 
installation, with myself as the site admin, and all other users as blog 
owners.

Now does it make sense?

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Oscar Renalias wrote:
> I think it looks very good. But what I don't understand is why users are 
> allowed to change their blog domain at will via Control Centre->Blog 
> Settings. If this is supposed to allow multiple domains in one installation, 
> and one domain is supposed to be used for more than user, does each one of 
> those non-admin blog users get to change the domain of their blog too?
>
> Oscar
>
> On 24 Jan 2006, at 06:28, Jon Daley wrote:
>
>> 	I have wondered whether the blog_domain stuff is going to be too 
>> confusing for people, so I have been trying to make it easier to 
>> understand.  One way I thought of is to not show the blog_domain field at 
>> all on the blog_settings page unless subdomains are enabled and the 
>> subdomains_base_url contains a {blogdomain} entry.  This works well, and 
>> the setting magically disappears off of the page, but what do people think 
>> about that?
>> 
>> You can check it at http://devel.limedaley.com/blog_domain/admin.php 
>> (jondaley/jondaley) if you want.
>> 
>> 
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