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Postby Minimedj » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:00 pm

Hello everybody!

I am looking for the add-on that can provide the following functionality:

    - Each content contributor (editor) can provide various tags for each news article.
    - It is possible to obtain list of all tags and for each tag number and list of tagged articles.

Usage: for example, I have different news categories:
    - News about hardware
    - News about software
    - News about market
    - etc.

For each news I can provide different tags (I can type my own, or I can select some previously created by me or by other editors ones). For example: For some news I was providing tag “Perlâ€Â
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Postby Minimedj » Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:37 am

Ok guys,

I decided to create such a plug-in myself (I am not a programmer but I will try my very best). I took FakeSQL as a starting point.

It will work only with SQL database so far.

I don't really know if I can finish it or not, but I hope for the best and I hope that if I have question, you guys will help me :-)

So, let's start :-)

p.s. I call it TagsSQL
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Postby Jackanape » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:11 am

Very excited to hear more about it! I'll be following your progress keenly!
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Postby Minimedj » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:37 am

Ok, here is some additional info:

TagsSQL add-on:
- I already created Admin + automatic tables creation + some hooks
- Now I have think and develop all needed business logic, and this is it...

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Another issues:
- Coranto has great idea behind. Great implementation, but quite pure user interface... Maybe it was good in '98... but not now...

I've a little bit pumped up cra_changedatenew.pl add-on. Now it has javasctipt calendars, at least you don't need to enter date manually every time...
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Postby Minimedj » Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:13 am

Just an idea... If Coranto code developers are here, maybe you guys can tell me something about it...

Text based database is a little bit out of the date... Unfortunately it is more or less impossible to build something serious on it...

BUT: the rest of Coranto is Great! Most important thing for me is a very nice way of integrating new features/add-ons into the system!

So, maybe it is reasonable to provide some sort of framework that has only:

- basic admin interface (config management, user management, rights management and add-ons manager + add-on development interface)

The rest could be implemented as a add-ons buy those who needs them?

For example, now I have problems with huge amount of data that cannot be stored in newsdat.txt but database could manage it easily... So, I would love to develop such a add-on but current newsdat.txt integrated too deeply into Coranto so, I don't know where is easier to work with Coranto or to start from scratch...


Guys, I hope you understand my point... Please, give me some feedback...

If we find nice way to handle it, I think that I can bring professional developers to develop some add-ons...
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Postby Minimedj » Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:32 am

Hello guys!

(I hope that somebody reads this thread :-)

TagsSQL is 80% ready. It will provide only admin functionality, all user-end and visualization functionality, you have to implement yourself (it is because everybody needs something different)...

I will create new add-on which I will call SimpleNews.

It will use MySQL to store data. It will have tree-like news categories structure for storing news (each leaf in the tree could store as many news as you wish).

Also, news will has different types of ids:
- unique number id
- self-explanation id like "News+about_something+interesting"
- tag id (this is a little bit tricky) "2008/02/07/newsTag"

- Also, since it will have tree like structure, it will be possible to show something like this on to of each news: "yoursite.com > news > animals > monkey > politics" as well as have SEO friendly URLs like: h**p://yoursite.com/news/animals/monkey/politics/<here_goes_newsid>

- also I am thinking about feature like "related news", but I have to think how it is possible to use TagsSQL add-on, coz it has similar functionality


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Yeah... Also, I had to make some modifications on core files, so, I don't really know if it worth to share it publicly (I don't think it could crash something, but I am not sure 100% :-)

If Coranto developers ok with it, I would like to start new project out of Coranto sources (I will use only functionality described in a message above)

p.s . I just read licence agreement. I will also use MIT licence and I will always refer to Coranto website.

p.s.s. I will be back :-)
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Postby SrNupsen » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:06 pm

Hello you :)

Yes, I'm reading this thread and I'm happy to see this initiative. However, no core developers have been around here for some time now, so any support for non-flat-file database formats is postponed indefinitely (allthough it has been heavily discussed in the past).

Looking forward to see what you can accomplish with your addon!
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Postby Minimedj » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:56 pm

:-) Thank for commenting :-)

So far everything is fine :-)

Just made some minor modifications:
- Moved all addons to addons folder, now there is no such a mess as before...
- Created DBConnector addon - one point to configure database access

- Now thinking about SimpleNews addon (today will finish with categories tree management)
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Postby Minimedj » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:13 am

Hello everybody!

So far:
- Finishing developing SimpleNews add-on (all business logic will implemented as stored procedures for MySQL)

- When it is done, I will implement user/group/rights management as additional add-on.

- After that, I cut away all existing user management, news management and will try to clean up all code (you should remember that I am not a programmer).

I think this system has very big potential! :-)

Most important thing is that it is very easy to extend it!!!

Regards :-)
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Postby Elenzi » Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:37 am

hi,do you finish it i am interstead ,i would like to have it for my news
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