-- Update -- Just wanted to provide a quick update on where Blogger is (ref Cookbook/Blogger). Things are pretty much done at this point. Right now I'm working to make sure the skinning process is smooth -- so you can switch from one skin to another, and have the various elements work together.
Anyway, the whole reason for Bloggers existence is so I can move away from Drupal which powers a few of my sites. In that vein, check out http://test.davidgilbert.org/ -- this is a PmWiki based version of the Drupal site at http://davidgilbert.org/. The two are pretty much functionally equivalent, although the Blogger version does have a few additional features (like pagination, which I could never work out in Drupal). -- Brainstorm -- The one big thing remaining, and the reason Blogger is still in 'alpha' is the data structure. I'm not convinced the current approach is right, and think there's a better approach out there. Right now I'm storing all page data as PmForms fields, including the page content. This works fine, but has two shortcomings: 1] There's no smooth way to alter existing pages into the Blogger format -- copy and paste is the way. I can't work out a way to feed existing page content into a PmForm textarea (same problem as the 'alternate [a]' approach below). 2] If someone decides to stop using Blogger, they will need to redefine a markup (easy to do) to ensure pages are visible. Not a significant problem, but there nonetheless. Alternate [a]: It seems to me that storing the content as a normal standalone page, with a linked 'data' page is a better approach. The link could be soft (naming or group convention), or with a physical link. The problem is that I can't get this to work with PmForms. For instance, trying to make the content appear as a field by encapsulating it in (:..:..:) from pageHeaders/footers, and then using a form, doesn't work. It seems like content in headers/footers is not recognized by PmForms. Other thoughts using PmWiki core code welcomed. ~ ~ Dave _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
