history
updates
by anders pearson
Thu 15 Nov 2001 19:18:50
i've been busier than i thought lately with non-thraxil stuff so i haven't been fixing things as quickly as i'd hoped. but, here are the changes i've been making:
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<li><a href="users.pl">users page</a> now uses colour coding to indicate frontpage posting authorization and lists the total number of posts each user has contributed (includes comments)</li>
<li>a <a href="keyword.pl">list of all keywords</a> is now available.</li>
<li>ordering of comments has changed a little. threads with the newest post are at the top. i think this is more consistent with how they used to be while still allowing for threading.</li>
<li>fixed a small issue with diaries and comments. eg, if you look at a <a href="node.pl?nid=2583">comment posted by sarah to mark's diary</a>, you'll notice that it uses the stylesheet for sarah's diary and links back to her diary rather than mark's. other diaries are like this too. it's a problem in the old version of the default diary templates. if you change the <tmpl_var name="author"> tags to <tmpl_var name="diary_author"> in the appropriate places, it will work correctly. i'm still working on throwing together some good documentation on the template system.</li>
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i'll post any other updates i make as comments attached to this post.
comments
sarah - Thu 15 Nov 2001 19:19:50
Anders rocks. T'would be smashing if we could find our way back to whence we came.Matthias Dittgen - Thu 15 Nov 2001 19:20:50
does the diary feature yet work for everyone?anders pearson - Thu 15 Nov 2001 19:26:50
it's supposed to. there were some problems with your username containing uppercase letters. should be fixed now. sorry.Matthias Dittgen - Thu 15 Nov 2001 19:27:50
no reason to be sorry.<br /> well, I am narcistic, but I think I could live with a username containing lowercase letters. So you may change my username to lowercase letters if you want or need to.<br /> diary works, but looks very pink... *ieks* when I click at [edit diary template directory] it leads to a blank <a href="http://thraxil.dhs.org/ls.pl">page</a> containing:<br /> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 couldn't open directory: /home/httpd/html/backup/users/MAD</b></b></b></br></br></br>anders pearson - Thu 15 Nov 2001 19:28:50
should be fixed now.anders pearson - Thu 15 Nov 2001 19:21:50
you can edit any type of post now: regular posts, images (although you can't actually change the image itself you can edit the description) and bookmarks. you can also move nodes back and forth between your diary and the frontpage (assuming you have permission to post on the frontpage)anders pearson - Thu 15 Nov 2001 19:22:50
search is functional now.Mark Boudreau - Thu 15 Nov 2001 19:23:50
anders, first I'd like to say, well done. I like the green and black theme. Very sharp. Have you checked out thraxil in Opera 6.0? Not that you need to make this page work in every browser under the sun, but you should check out the quirks. The top menu bar with the login info floats over the page, so that it follows as a user scrolls down the page. Quite strange. Just thought I'd let you know.sarah - Thu 15 Nov 2001 19:24:50
Thraxil is gorgeous. What more can I say?anders pearson - Thu 15 Nov 2001 19:25:50
just a couple minor things that i've been working on: you've probably already noticed that the 'recent diary entries' pulldown now directs you to the user's diary rather than straight to the particular node. it will also try to direct the browser to an anchor on that page with the name of the node id. if you add to your diary.tmpl something like <tt><a name="<tmpl_var name="nid">"></a></tt> inside the "entries" tmpl_loop it should work for you too. limited archives are functional for the diaries too. see <a href="diary.pl?user=anders">mine</a> for a demo (note the "previous" link at the top). look at the <a href="/users/anders/diary.tmpl">template code</a> of my diary to see how to do it on yours. i added a little bookmarklet to the <a href="post.pl">posting page</a> to make it easier to bookmark sites. right click (or control click or whatever) on the bookmarklet link and bookmark it. then edit the name of the bookmark to something useful and (recommended) add it to your browser's toolbar. go to a site you like, hit the bookmarklet and it will prompt you for the url and title (pre-filled in with the current page's url and title) and then redirect you to the posting page with the info already filled in so you can add the description and keywords and add it. also some very minor layout tweaks and such. probably some other stuff too that i've forgotten about.