[geeklog-devel] Deleting comments

[Tony Bibbs]

Dirk, actually, in the stubbed out functions I would put the require_once:

function COM_deleteComment()
{
    require_once '/path/to/lib-comment.php';
    CMT_deleteComment();
}

Gets around the issue of including code that probably won't be used and 
it provides the backwards compatibility.  Note that making this elegant 
isn't a big deal as that the whole notion of deprecating the 
COM_*Comment functions is that those functions will eventually go bye-bye.

Also, worth noting is that you shouldn't call require_once after you do 
a function_exists.  The overhead to check for the function is made up 
automatically by simply calling require_once.

--Tony

Dirk Haun wrote:

>Tony,
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>>Only issue with this sort of stuff is it will clearly break 
>>compatiblity. I say you would leave the stubbed out functions in 
>>lib-common.php, call the new library equivalent (i.e. COM_deleteComment 
>>would call CMT_deleteComment) and then log a warning to error.log that 
>>the function is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
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>That would still require lib-common.php to include the lib-comment.php
>then. Since comments are only used by a few components (and plugins) I
>was actually thinking about getting rid of that code entirely so that
>those components that actually need it would have to include this.
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>if (!function_exists ('COM_comment')) {
>    require_once ($_CONF['path_system'] . 'lib-comment.php');
>}
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>Yeah, it would break compatibility. But then again, there are more flaws
>in the plugin API regarding comments (I'll post something about them
>later) and this would be a good opportunity to fix them all at once.
>
>Vinny, I'm not opposed to having a comment.class.php instead of the lib-
>comment.php if you think that makes sense.
>
>bye, Dirk
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