Re: Re: PHP

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 13:24, Paul Dragoonis <dragoonis@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hey Stewart, >> >> As per our previous conversation below off-list. I'm happy to work on >> the site news. >> I'd like to chat about it a bit more and then spec it out on the wiki, >> have people look over it and give their opinion (e.g: hannes). >> >> For dynamic site news, I think in the end would be manageable via >> edit.php.net but for now to keep it simple and realistic we'll try a >> different approach. I'll have to speak to yannick about reusing the >> ExtJS components on edit.php.net for something like edit.php.net/news >> or editnews.php.net, with a simple markdown or WYSIWYG editor. People >> with 'news karma' will only be able to update this accordingly. Even > > Err.. this sounds like you are planning on creating some news system > and embed it with the online doc editor? > I think that is heckofalotmore then we need. Are we still happy at manually maintaining the atom news feed? If so i'll just have the new layout just read from print_news() or whatnot. > > The OE will be moved to http://edit.php.net/manual and then > sometime > in the future master.php.net/manage/ will move to edit.php.net/mirrors > and edit.php.net/profile maybe.. > > I hope none of it will be done in extjs. > > >> Stewart, you mentioned "print_news" can you elaborate on that, were >> you meaning just storing the news in a raw array and just iterating >> over it? What's your thoughts here. Lets go for simple now and then >> comprehensive later. >> >> Cheers, >> Paul Dragoonis. >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Stewart Lord <stewey@ambitious.ca> wrote: >>> I was thinking much more basic. Just calling the print_news function - which might >>> require some modification. >>> >>> On 2011-07-28, at 8:24 AM, Paul Dragoonis <dragoonis@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Recent news.. ok is there an admin panel for editing news (currently?). >>>> If not I can add an edit.php.net module to manage this. > > > Current "news system" is a an atom file committed to > phpweb/archive/entries/date.xml. > phpweb/archive/archive.xml is then parsed on rsync by > master/scripts/update-backend (pregen_news) and generates an array of > news entries. > > print_news() (phpweb/include/layout.inc) then iterates over the > entires printing out the proper category > ('frontpage'/'conference'/'cfp').. > > Mirrors cannot run databases or fetch external content, at most they > could use a sqlite database but I think that would cause unnecessary > rsync load.. > > -Hannes > Thanks for the elabroation.