 dorje wrote:
wistex,
Great idea - I too have been thinking about this as a possible solution to a requirement for Blogs and News items (articles to you I think)
My questions to you is with the MOD you're working on
- Have you considered META information for articles e.g. publishFrom, publishTo and audience or key word
- My thought is to record the meta information in the RSS output, and then use the RSS to build a news listing with a link to the full 'article', thus avoiding the database hit each time the news listing page is loaded.
Many thanks
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At this point, I only use this for simple articles/news/blog entries that I want posted. If I want something more, I create my own CMS outside of WWF. The reason being that making too many MODs to Borg's scripts makes it hard to upgrade WWF.
For example, you will notice that I do not use forum_posts.asp for articles but have created article_posts.asp instead. Then in forum_posts.asp I determine whether or not the post is in forum format or article/news/blog format, and redirect to article_posts.asp if article/news/blog and use forum_posts.asp if a forum post. This way it cuts down on the number of files I need to update every time Borg comes out with a new version. If I didn't have to worry about upgrading WWF, I would have implemented it a different way.
Although I am playing with the idea of creating alternate "list" pages for articles and blogs that would order the information how I want, and then having a different table hold additional information about a post. The goal being to touch Borg's code and database structure as little as possible, while adding as much functionality as possible. Not always an easy task.
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