Actually, one of the very important changes that I am going to begin
pushing for in Roller is that we *not* continue to define macros which
include html like this one.
The problem with defining a macro like this is that you force anyone
wanting to use that macro to use *your* html, which is not desirable
true flexibility with template hacking. Instead I would prefer to see
things like this be handled by simply providing access to the data and
then letting the user iterate over that data and print out whatever html
they see fit.
Something like ...
<ul class="archive">
#foreach( $month in $weblog.getListOfArchiveMonths() )
<li class="archiveItem">$month</li>
#end
</ul>
This is a *much* more flexible approach than telling people to just do
this ...
#showListOfArchiveMonths()
My big problem with this last approach is simple, what if I want to
display that same list, but I don't want it using the <ul> and <li> html
tags. What if I want to do it my own way?
The overall premise is that we should be giving users access to the data
they need to draw up their templates, not just dumping mounds of html on
them.
Anyways, keep that in mind while you think through this feature.
-- Allen
Justin Grammens wrote:
Bill,
I got the roller-src from the latest release and have
it imported into Eclipse and running. Just have a few
configuration loose ends to tie up.
It looks like it's going to be pretty easy to do it.
The question I have now is how the functionality
should work.
Easiest way is to do it like I have seen on blogger
where the velocity function will just return a:
<ul class="archive">
<li class="archiveItem">MONTH YEAR</li>
<li class="archiveItem">MONTH YEAR</li>
etc..
</ul>
based on the numer of months you pass in to the
function - note: this is irregardless of if you have
posts for the month (one would assume you post atleast
one a month). This makes the java code very simple,
since it doesn't need to any DB calls. Just a simple,
date format and return a java List of dates going back
the number of months you specify.
How might we (or should we) handle if the person
want's ALL of their postings from their archive? I'm
thinking if a person passes in say -1, they will get
all of the archive postings. That might be nice, but
then ofcouse would require a DB call to see where
their first posts is, and then show all of the months
from that point up until the current month. Probably
won't be too bad, do you think this -1 feature is
nice? I'm also thinking it might also be nice to allow
then to format the dates, so for example they could
have it return, Mar 2006 or March 2006. Not sure the
best way to do that option.
Anyway, I'll plan first work on the simpler (no db)
call option first and think about the others later.
Thanks,
Justin
--- Tribley William-cwt010 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Justin,
That would be wonderful. I am helping a friend get
into blogging by
setting Roller up, he wants this feature, I was
trying to figure out how
I could hack out the time to learn the Velocity
template system enough
to get this working.
If you want a tester we can help.
Thanks,
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Grammens
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 6:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Links to previous months?
Great! Looks like I've just found myself a project
to work
on. If no one minds, I'll do some reading on the
developer
site for creating macros and take a stab at it. If
people
think it's useful I'll be more than happy to
contribute it back.
Thanks,
Justin
--- David M Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
No, we don't currently have a macro for that,
but it's definitely a
good idea.
- Dave
On Mar 26, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Justin Grammens
wrote:
Does Roller have the ability to show links for
say
the
last X number of months in the sidebar of my
template?
I have looked through the API macro
documentation
at:
http://rollerweblogger.org/velocidoc/
and can't seem to find what I'm looking for.
I guess I could easily add a link for each
month
and
manage it myself, but I was hoping maybe there
was macro
that would
do it automatically. I have seen
may
other blogs out there do this. I just want it
to
show
say the last 9 months (February 2006, January
2006,
December 2005, etc..) and a user could hop
back without having to
click on the calendar link, 9
times
to manually go back.
Thanks for any help if people have done this
before.
I'm guessing I have just missed how to do it
in
the
FAQ.
Justin
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