[geeklog-devel] Geeklog Topics and Blocks

[Dan Stoner]

I have also wanted the multi-topic assignment capabilty.

For some reason I have an aversion to tags (and tag clouds)... but
tags do seem like a common solution to this.

- Dan Stoner

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Vincent Furia <vfuria at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had done some thinking on this several years ago. The most flexible design
> I came up with is using "tag" style backend. Instead of having tid's
> associated with stories, there would be topic_assignments (or some better
> named...) table allowing a many-to-many relationship between stories (or
> blocks, or plugins, etc) and topics.
> I went so far as to also consider how to handle sub-topics. Easy way: you
> could define topic relationships by having a topic separator (e.g. "-" or
> "/") in the topic name. Hard way: create a hierarchal data structure in the
> database (parent child relationship, or tree representation similar to how
> comments are not handled). The latter design would allow more flexibility,
> though the former would be significantly less work to implement.
>
> Any change that modified the database would require quite a bit of work (as
> my suggestion in the first paragraph would). If you end up going with any of
> these ideas, I had thought out quite a bit more detail if you want it.
> -Vinny
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 14:31, Tom <websitemaster at cogeco.net> wrote:
>>
>> I have started to do a bit of research/work on my feature request about
>> allowing topics to be associated with other objects like staticpages, etc.
>>
>> http://project.geeklog.net/tracking/view.php?id=1155
>>
>> I was also thinking about (I haven't decided to tackle it yet):
>>
>> - Allowing blocks to be assigned to one or more topics and not just one or
>> all.
>> - Allowing stories (and other objects)  to be assigned to one or more
>> topics.
>>
>> Does anyone have any thoughts or opinions...
>>
>> Tom
>>
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