On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Arzie Hardin <[email protected]> wrote:
> hey Gary, thanks for your response. I hear what you are saying that using > tags is a way to go. A tag solution was my first approach, but I could find > no way to create tag menu items (to mimic sec/cat) for addressable tag > labled article lists/layouts. Do you know of a solution/technique to do > this? > > Umm..... I copy the code for article list/layouts and make a quick tag display function. Probably not the answer your looking for. :-) Obviously I am not an extension developer and there could be very good > reasons why noone except one develper has attempted it, but it sure would be > nice. :-) > > Well...my own thinking is that no one is EVER happy with one way of doing layouts, so I always end up having to tweak it anyway at the end of which I have a small bit of custom code for a specific situation. As such, going through the effort of packaging it up with an XML file, zipping it, posting it, begging Joomla Extensions to list it...... and to get only 1 person giving you feedback if your lucky? Not worth the time. And I don't see any commercial value to it... I mean I can't imagine anyone paying even 3 bucks for such a thing...let alone the 5 bucks I see as the minimum payment to make setting up a payment system worthwhile. Would you pay 5 bucks for it? :-) What I see is that there is an obsession over having a "better" section/category system but in the end the one we have is quite adequette, what we need instead is a decent, built in tagging system. And a decent built in comment system. And a decent built in message queue system. And a decent built in Cache system. In order of priority, I'd say tags, comments, than either caching or messages. -- ---- Hudson Valley Sudbury School What GPL is for application users Our school is for students Help your children grow, change, and learn Let your child direct, control, amend Check out http://www.sudburyschool.org
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