[geeklog-devel] Geeklog 2 questions/comments

[Tony Bibbs]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Tom Willett wrote:

> As a little break from work I jotted down some ideas/questions about Geeklog 
> 2 that I have not see discussed anywhere.
> 
> 1)  Object Oriented dreams:
> 
> How object oriented is Geeklog 2 going to be?  I like the idea of getting a 
> collection of member objects much more than doing a database access for this 
> information.  This would allow for easy caching of such information and easy 
> extension by plugins.  

It's 99.99% object oriented ;-)

> 
> I like the db object in the current geeklog but would like to see it 
> expanded to cover all the functions in lib-database.

We are using PEAR::DB. I think between it and some well thought out data 
access objects we can cover this.

> 
> Tony mentioned a site wide pm facility.  If this was an object then you 
> could have multiple different pm facilities available for use.  
> 
> I imagine the system on init creating the core objects and each module on 
> init making its extensions to those objects, so that a plugin could change 
> the behavior of a core object by extending it.
> 
> Plugins as objects -- ooh.  I'll have two forum and one pm object please. Oh 
> yeah extend one of my forums with moderation.

Actually the conceptual pieces of this are in the works.  We will have a 
'base' plugin class that all plugins should inherit from.  That way it 
truly leverages the GL kernel and the services it provides.

> 
> My imagination runs wild with oo dreams.  To be honest my oo dreams go 
> beyond php's oo capabilities.  But there could and should be things like a 
> generic plugin class that each plugin extendes with its own properties and 
> methods (I see functions.inc here).
> 
> 2)  Template System
> 
> Is there a better way than the current way for plugins/modules to 
> participate in the template system?  This will become critical if most 
> functionality becomes a module or plugin.  The reason the current theme 
> system works as well as it does is that most of the functionality is in the 
> core system.  There has to be a better way but I cannot see it right now.

You aren't the first person to say that.  However, I have not seen a 
better alternative to templating.  I'm definitely open to ideas.

--Tony

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