SoC category plugin - Revision history

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troublesome characters, saving changes without editing anything.

Tom at 01:24, 10 March 2011

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Tom at 19:25, 6 March 2011

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Tom: /* Category Plugin */

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‎Category Plugin

Tom at 16:54, 6 March 2011

2011-03-06T16:54:41Z

Tom at 16:53, 6 March 2011

2011-03-06T16:53:57Z

Tom at 16:51, 6 March 2011

2011-03-06T16:51:52Z

Tom: New page: (Return to the main idea page for the Google Summer of Code) == Introduction == Geeklog’s current solution for categories are topics. The problem with topics is th...

2011-03-06T16:43:14Z

New page: <center>(Return to the main idea page for the Google Summer of Code)</center> == Introduction == Geeklog’s current solution for categories are topics. The problem with topics is th...

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 == Introduction ==
-current solution for categories are topics. The problem with topics is that they are only one level deep and are associated with just articles. Another issue is that blocks can only be assigned to one or all topics. This limits webmasters on how they can categorize and display information.
+Geeklog�s current solution for categories are topics. The problem with topics is that they are only one level deep and are associated with just articles. Another issue is that blocks can only be assigned to one or all topics. This limits webmasters on how they can categorize and display information.
 == Incentive ==
-The Category plugin will solve all these issues plus add in many new features. The Category plugin will work alongside Topics but in the future it could replace them. Along with the Category plugin you will be updating plugin API to allow plugins the ability to hook into the admin editors of articles and other plugins. Hooks will also be required for blocks.
+The Category plugin will solve all these issues plus add in many new features. The Category plugin will work alongside Topics but in the future it could replace them. Along with the Category plugin you will be updating Geeklog�s plugin API to allow plugins the ability to hook into the admin editors of articles and other plugins. Hooks will also be required for Geeklog�s blocks.

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 * Add new plugin API to integrate extra fields from one or more plugins into edit forms. This should allow for displaying, validation and saving the information. Some functionality will also be required to tell the plugin what plugins it should not integrate into
-* Add this functionality to the Admin editors of Articles, Category plugin, Static Pages plugin, Polls plugin, Links Plugin and Calendar plugin
+* Add new plugin API to integrate extra fields from one or more plugins into submission forms
 * Add support of adding one or more categories to Articles using the above API
 * Add support to Blocks to display depending on the category shown (should this be some sort of new Plugin API similar to above or should the block control be built into the plugin???)

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 Features to Consider for the Future
 * A number of plugins have their own category structure (See the Links and File Manager Plugin for examples). Is there a way that the Category plugin can offer this type of feature to future plugins? This would mean that the other plugin would be dependent on the Category plugin to control the category structure and allow it to display the category list in the other plugin
 == Level of Difficulty ==

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		+	Features to Consider for the Future
		+	* A number of plugins have their own category structure (See the Links and File Manager Plugin for examples). Is there a way that the Category plugin can offer this type of feature to future plugins? This would mean that the other plugin would be dependent on the Category plugin to control the category structure and allow it to display the category list in the other plugin

	== Level of Difficulty ==		== Level of Difficulty ==

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 The feature list for the Category plugin can be broken down into two main parts, Geeklog Core changes and the plugin itself:
 === Core Changes ===
 * Add new plugin API to integrate extra fields from one or more plugins into edit forms. This should allow for displaying, validation and saving the information. Some functionality will also be required to tell the plugin what plugins it should not integrate into
 * Add this functionality to the Admin editors of Articles, Category plugin, Static Pages plugin, Polls plugin, Links Plugin and Calendar plugin
 * Add support of adding one or more categories to Articles using the above API
 * Add support to Blocks to display depending on the category shown (should this be some sort of new Plugin API similar to above or should the block control be built into the plugin???)
 === Category Plugin ===

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 The feature list for the Category plugin can be broken down into two main parts, Geeklog Core changes and the plugin itself:
-Core Changes
+=== Core Changes ===
 * Add new plugin API to integrate extra fields from one or more plugins into edit forms. This should allow for displaying, validation and saving the information. Some functionality will also be required to tell the plugin what plugins it should not integrate into
 * Add this functionality to the Admin editors of Articles, Category plugin, Static Pages plugin, Polls plugin, Links Plugin and Calendar plugin
 * Add support of adding one or more categories to Articles using the above API
 * Add support to Blocks to display depending on the category shown (should this be some sort of new Plugin API similar to above or should the block control be built into the plugin???)
 The Category plugin work can be broken down into several sub parts:
 Categories:
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 * If a visitor is viewing a category they should be able to drill down and view sub categories
 * Admin Category Page - Some sort of tree user interface to display categories on left with selected category/item info on the right
 Breadcrumbs:
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 * Plugins should be allowed to pull this information to display it as well
 * Support Google Rich Snippets for [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=185417 Breadcrumbs]
 Menu:
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 * Admin Interface for changing the style of the menus
 * Minimum support for CSS 2 styling
 Tags:
 * Tag Cloud block
 * Page with Tag Cloud which lists items from selected tag as well as other tags the items belong too.
 What's Related Block:

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 == Introduction ==
+. This limits webmasters on how they can categorize and display information.
 == Incentive ==
-−
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 * Any Article and plugin item (that supports the API) can be added to a category
 * A Category has one parent but can have zero, one or many categories and items assigned to it
-* A Category can have one or more item type (ie Articles and Static Pages could be assigned to it)
+* A Category can have one or more item type (i.e. Articles and Static Pages could be assigned to it)
 * Security on Categories (Read/Usage, Edit)
 * A Category can be defined as a tag
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 * A display system for Categories that works similar to Topics (the layout and blocks)
 * A Category at any level can be displayed (and inherit items below it if object or category can be inherited)
-* Admin Category Page - Some sort of tree user interface to display categories on left with select item info on the right
+* If a visitor is viewing a category they should be able to drill down and view sub categories
 Breadcrumbs:
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 Menu:
 * Based on Categories
-* Styling Options with minimum support for CSS 2
+* Admin Interface for changing the style of the menus
 Tags:
 * Tag Cloud block
-* Page with Tag Cloud and lists items from selected tag as well as other tags the items belong too.
+* Page with Tag Cloud which lists items from selected tag as well as other tags the items belong too.
 What's Related Block:
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 ''medium''
-This project will require someone to spend time understanding how Geeklog Blocks and the core plugin API works. You will also need to install a number of the more popular plugins that offer similar features to see how they work. As of version 1.8.0 Geeklog now includes jQuery. jQuery could be used with this project for the menu system and/or the Category Admin editor tree.
+This project will require someone to spend time understanding how Geeklog Blocks and the core plugin API works. You will also need to install a number of the more popular plugins that offer similar features to see how they work. As of version 1.8.0, Geeklog now includes jQuery. jQuery could be used with this project for the menu system and/or the Category Admin editor tree.