Quote from: PaulGregory at Sep 19, 2006, 10:33 AM
The other Top 5 snippet is MaxiGallery. I am not comfortable making that part of the ’official’ core install (because it breaks awasy from core document structure principles) but it would look nice in the OpenSourceCMS demo.
I really wouldn’t include MaxiGallery to the release.. It can be found from the resource repository just as good. Here’s some points why not to include it:
- Code is based on Eto snippet
- No templating ability, uses tables (ugh)
- Code is very badly structured and not too proud of it (at the time I put it together, I needed just something for my self and didn’t pay much attention, I blame legacy code lol
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- I have fixed alot of bugs in it for a new version, but the new version is not done yet due to some issues with TBS and I’m not too happy with it either, would really like to use "native templating" features
- It uses own database table, don’t know if any other core snippet does and don’t know if it’s considered as a problem?
- It’s not essential snippet at all. If we ever include gallery snippet to the release, I’d like it to be top notch like the other core snippets are
- I am goin to make a new gallery snippet from scratch, because I see there is alot demand for it. It will be better thinked and structured obviously. Maybe at that point we could rethink this, but still, I don’t know if image gallery would be considered as essential..
Anyways, what I’m wondering is that what has happened to Replix / Jot? Replix is allready alot better than Usercomments snippet, but it does not use native modx templating, so that’s why it can’t be included currently, but is Jot still being worked on? haven’t heard much about it..
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Jot should be included in the next beta release actually. Supposed to be ready tonight in fact. FYI, bS is switching over to creating a new table too for the time being to bypass some of the XML issues with PHP4 and is doing some neat native templating things. His code will install the tables the first time they’re run automatically.
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Quote from: rthrash at Sep 19, 2006, 11:48 AMJot should be included in the next beta release actually.
Nice news !
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I was just going off popularity when I raised the issue of MaxiGallery, and I fully expected it to get knocked down. The extra info helps me realise that it shouldn’t be in the OSCMS demo either. (For what it’s worth, I’m using MaxiG on a couple of sites).
Excellent news on Jot.
I like it too. It is however *exceptionally* basic - ignoring the form, the guts are essentially
$sql =$_POST['sql'];
[...]
if ($sql!=""){
$rs = $modx->db->query($sql);
return "querry maked";
}}
I think it would be good if it could convert [+dbprefix+] (or whatever the current standard thing is) to modx_ (or whatever the system setting is, as appropriate). (Possibly, "convert modx_ to mysite_").
Snippet and module authors could then include the SQL code in the installation instructions ("Go to SQL Query Module, paste this in and execute") rather than having to include the SQL in the snippet itself.
Quote from: rthrash at Sep 20, 2006, 10:19 AMJavier is cranking out some very cool code which unfortunately is not quite met with good descriptions (he’s Spanish). I really think his SQL Query Module might be worthy of inclusion
Yeah it’s too bad his code is not better documented... I mean look at NewsManager, pretty handy to have frontend editing for webusers. But it sure is much more useful since
Ronald (tfd) has documented and improved it.
If we include this, might have to document his module a bit
About great work being "lost", I kind of think HyperFlexSearchForm and FlexSearchFormTVars could really bring some power to MODx search. Ability to include TVs content in search result is a Frequently Asked Question...
Quote from: davidm at Sep 09, 2006, 04:07 PM
I’d have to look at it, but I am pretty sure xyzvisual (Javier) did modify FlexSearchForm to include TV in search...
Edit: Found it : FlexSearchFormTVars
You also could look into HyperFlexSearchForm
I wished we had a new FlexSearchForm snippet pulling all this togther, for better search... at some point we had talked about some Sphider integration also, which would be great...
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return "querry maked";
his descriptions / translations allways makes laugh my brains out... good stuff!
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@Kyle : sorry for the additionnal workload
@Doze : I always kind of thought Javier should document his contribution in spanish, and have someone translate it later. It would be better than current state of things which might be funny but end up that those contribs are not widely used... and sometime get lost...
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