Ditto 1.0

FYI for testers, the comments at the top of the snippet are not terminated correctly.

It needs changed from this:



to this:



on line 11.

Ok, a bagillion bug fixs later, I present another test build. From what I can see, just a few minor changes left in the code and I need to update the paramater list in the new documentation.

P.S. Only download the zip attachement, as the text files attached use differant names than the actual snippet and are just so that I can download them at a location without a zip extractor.

Keep up the great work Mark.

Ok, just attaching my work in progress documentation so I can work on it from another location. Remember, all these attached files are in the zip.

Quote from: Mark at May 10, 2006, 09:01 AM

Ok, just attaching my work in progress documentation so I can work on it from another location. Remember, all these attached files are in the zip.

Great work on the documentation Mark.

Do we have a placeholder for the page in the results you’re on currently? For example, Page 3 of 20, which mirrors the pagination ala the http://www.mollio.org//typeF.html (near the bottom) template. I find this a really nice implementation and this if available would help us get to there easily without having to do DOM parsing to grab a class, etc.

Again, keep it up my man!

Mark, documentation looks good, but I suggest to use Generic fonts in documentation e.g. Arial and for Headings, other wise it looks horrible

Other than that, great efforts! Keep it up boy!

regards,

zi

Yes, that has been in NewsListing (hence Ditto) since 4.x...

Just missing from the docs (which is what I reviewed).

Announcing Ditto: the nimbler, faster, better-named and even more flexible offspring of NewsListing.

The fact is, Newslisting is useful for much more than summarizing and building archives of news articles. Coupled with the fact that a cornerstone MODx philosophy focuses on flexibility, and "News" seemed to syntactically restrictive. And boring.

Blogs... PodCasts... Press Release archives... File Download repositories... FAQs... Executive Bio listings...

Ditto now takes advantage of an external class, language files to work with multi-language installs, and uses templates extensively for the ultimate in output formatting flexibility and control. And while it has more than 40 configurable parameters in it’s current implementation, you only need [[Ditto]] for great results (although telling it explicitly where to start probably wouldn’t hurt ).

Amongst the many cool things under Ditto’s able and refined domain:

• &mode parameter can disable sanity checks on variables and increase speed for production sites.
• JSON format for AJAX applications
• Access individual posts in templates via [+item[ # ]+] placeholders (replacing ’ # ’ with actual integers).
• Stop guessing with non-abbreviated parameter names in CamelCase convention.
• Updated documentation and full parameter and placeholder lists.
• xHTML Strict month-based archive output which uses templates for formatting.
• Extensive sorting and filtering based on TVs
• And the obligatory, "much, much more..."

Feedback, problems and praise: Learn about known Issues and resolutions as they surface.

cool intro to Ditto Mark