Mollom Properties

I’m working on the Molllom class and it needs some properties. The trouble is that it’s a service class that could be used in a snippet or a plugin. Is there away to create a stand-alone property set that can be attached to elements later?

Quote from: BobRay at Feb 13, 2009, 02:11 PM

I’m working on the Molllom class and it needs some properties. The trouble is that it’s a service class that could be used in a snippet or a plugin. Is there away to create a stand-alone property set that can be attached to elements later?

You can create and do with Property Sets what you will.  They are all stand-alone and can be related to an element at any point in time.

Depending on the scope of what the Mollum class does, it might make more sense to provide system/context/user settings rather than element properties for configuring a Mollum instance, but I’ll let you make that decision.

Quote from: OpenGeek at Feb 13, 2009, 03:47 PM

Quote from: BobRay at Feb 13, 2009, 02:11 PM

I’m working on the Molllom class and it needs some properties. The trouble is that it’s a service class that could be used in a snippet or a plugin. Is there away to create a stand-alone property set that can be attached to elements later?

You can create and do with Property Sets what you will.  They are all stand-alone and can be related to an element at any point in time.

Depending on the scope of what the Mollum class does, it might make more sense to provide system/context/user settings rather than element properties for configuring a Mollum instance, but I’ll let you make that decision.

The primary use would be to evaluate email and blog comment posts for smaminess, but it might also be used just to provide captcha images for logins. They do claim to have an unbreakable captcha (and an audio captcha option) and it’s much easier to read than reCaptcha. My sense is that it doesn’t rate system settings, but that raises a question for multi-site installs. It might need to have different setting for different sites. I’m thinking that that could most easily be provided with multiple property sets, though.

Quote from: BobRay at Feb 13, 2009, 09:21 PM

The primary use would be to evaluate email and blog comment posts for smaminess, but it might also be used just to provide captcha images for logins. They do claim to have an unbreakable captcha (and an audio captcha option) and it’s much easier to read than reCaptcha. My sense is that it doesn’t rate system settings, but that raises a question for multi-site installs. It might need to have different setting for different sites. I’m thinking that that could most easily be provided with multiple property sets, though.

I disagree, that is exactly what context settings are for, to override system settings for each site in a multi-site configuration.

Quote from: OpenGeek at Feb 14, 2009, 11:46 AM

Quote from: BobRay at Feb 13, 2009, 09:21 PM

The primary use would be to evaluate email and blog comment posts for smaminess, but it might also be used just to provide captcha images for logins. They do claim to have an unbreakable captcha (and an audio captcha option) and it’s much easier to read than reCaptcha. My sense is that it doesn’t rate system settings, but that raises a question for multi-site installs. It might need to have different setting for different sites. I’m thinking that that could most easily be provided with multiple property sets, though.

I disagree, that is exactly what context settings are for, to override system settings for each site in a multi-site configuration.

The key word there was "easily" and I meant for the user. As far as I can tell, there are only two or three people in the world that have a firm understanding of MODx Revolution contexts and I’m not one of them. I can’t explain how to deploy the Mollom class on multiple sites using contexts and I’m not sure how to build a package that would accommodate that. Properties are easy by comparison.

Quote from: OpenGeek at Feb 14, 2009, 11:46 AM

[...] that is exactly what context settings are for, to override system settings for each site in a multi-site configuration.

Good to know, thanks Jason!