Re: [midgard-user] midHoo 2.0a "hacked together" ;-) (was: [midgard-user] Midhoo, packaging & distributing Midgard apps)

[Philipp Rotmann, Linksystem Muenchen]

     Hi,

On 19.02.01 (10:07), Emiliano wrote:
> > Until now, it consists of one Snippet and two pages, each
> > with some page elements. I'm also not yet happy with the
> > poor separation between code, design and content -- another
> > topic I'd need input from others. No input without others
> > looking at the code, and no one else looking at the code
> > without some kind of packaging ;-)
> 
> Repligard?

How do I reliably export only a snippetdir and a page tree with
repligard 1.4?  I seem to remember that this feature was not yet
working reliably as of the 1.4 release, and I won't install
1.4.1beta on that system. I had enough problems with my customer
due to the upgrading and migration stuff to 1.4final -- which is
not Midgard's fault, but keeps me from upgrading again a few
weeks afterwards.

> Writing configure scripts is easy, especially if they only
> need to manipulate text fields. If you can give me a hint on
> what you need, I can put together a script for you.

Thanks, I'll get back to you on this :-)

> >  - full-text search
> 
> I'd try to interface with mnogoSearch.

Well, it's simply "searching for a word in title, keywords and
abstract of a link" -- version 2.0 will have to live with a
small-scale self-made solution. It's up to the user to decide
whether to use a sitewide search engine instead -- for
www.midgard-project.org as well as for anyone else.

> >  - inclusion of more than the "pre-defined" midHoo link
> >    fields in the email to the editor (my client wants the
> >    possibility to ask people a number of additional
> >    questions such as about their physical address, and those
> >    information should reach him by email and not be stored
> >    in the database)
> 
> I don't really understand this.

I seem to have overestimated my English proficiency ;-)

2nd try: When submitting a new link, people have to fill out a
form with the parameters we defined for a link (url, title,
abstract, keywords, ...). My clients wants those people to also
fill out some more fields (e.g., their address). This additional
information should (and can) not go into the Midgard database,
but should simply be sent to the midHoo editor via e-mail
(together with the link to the Admin page where to approve the
newly created link record).

As I'm creating and sending this e-mail from within my midHoo
snippet, I'll have to offer a way to pass arbitrary information
to that method that will directly go into the e-mail. That's all
-- neither complicated nor a lot of work, simply a lacking
feature ;-)

     phr
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