Hi,
well, I'll just try to make some suggestions ... ;-)
On 06.12.99 (19:37), Todd Daniel Woodward wrote:
> First challange is coding the articles in such a way (and
> with the proper
> PHP code) that determines where the article goes. ("Today in
> RadioDigest.com", "Other Articles", "Regular Features..."
> etc.)
Is there really no connection between the top-level topics and
these categories?
> Also the editor needs to be able to choose how the articles
> are ordered.
>
> I was thinking about using IDs to determine placement and
> Score to determine wether a document is to be displayed and
> in what particular order (in addition to just plain "newest
> first").
You mean database IDs? How would like to control them?
> An example would be: If I wanted a blurb to appear in the
> "Today in
> RadioDigest.com" box as a highilght (link in the list of
> links) then I would code it as 4 and 2. That would be 4th
> row of the page, and 2nd column. I could even use the third
> digit to designate what specific area in row 4, column 2.
> It would then be 4, 2, 2. Like 1 for LEAD story, and 2 for
> highlights (list of links).
Seems a bit too complicated, esp. if you want many different
people to maintain your sites. My suggestion would be splitting
these info into two parts: "type" and score. Your "Today in
RadioDigest.com" blurb would then have an extra field with type
"today" or whatever and a score. Your PHP code would then
compose the "Today in RadioDigest.com" box from all the approved
articles, maybe of a given date range, with a type of "today",
ordered by score with the highest score as the "big feature" and
the others as "highlighted list items".
> And the question comes up...If I'm highlighting something on
> the main home
> page via date and score, etc., then how do I control expiry
> and placement on one of the market home pages, which may be
> different? What ages off of the main home page doesn't
> necessary mean it should age off the market home page.
Well, I think if you have some data such as "type", "score" and
"date" for each article it seems possible to define different
criteria for every type of page. So you could define different
presentations of the same content in different contexts.
> Last question. Is "approval" of articles something that I
> need to enable (just like Score) in PHP code myself?
Yes, it is. Simply put an if-clause in your article pages where
you check whether the currently displayed article is already
approved.
Just some thoughts...
phr
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