[geeklog-devel] Geeklog.net - File Management Plugin

[Tom]

Another change as you mentioned previously is the changes to your hack that
automatically submits the file for a new Geeklog version.


>> I don't care too much about incoming links - we could at least redirect
them to the index page of the Downloads plugin and let visitors search from
>> there. I care a little more about the links all over geeklog.net, though.

We could do the same for both (or maybe direct them to a static page
explaining the change with a  link to the new download page and some of the
more important files) and then slowly go through the articles (staticpages,
comments, forum posts, faq) over time (newest to oldest). If there is a
quick fix with regexps and SQL requests that would be great but Dengen would
have to answer if the ids are the same. Autotags have been used so those
would have to be converted over as well.

I also think the files stored need a bit of cleaning. Once the conversion is
complete we may want to consider updating the categories and removing some
of the files that are really old and not useful anymore (I am thinking
mainly of the Amplitude CMS, Add-ons here Converters, Hacks, Translations). 

We also may need to group the files together by project manually as I doubt
the import function can do this.

Some of the real old articles also should be reviewed anyways. A number of
them have broken images and file links.

I just thought of something that would probably save some time in the long
run. If the IDs do not match up a better solution would be to maybe update
the script file  to modify any file management links and autotags found in
articles (staticpages, comments, forum posts, faq) as the file management
files are updated to downloads files. 

Tom



-----Original Message-----
From: geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net
[mailto:geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net] On Behalf Of Dirk Haun
Sent: June-01-13 9:14 AM
To: Geeklog Development
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Geeklog.net - File Management Plugin

Tom wrote:

> What are your plans with the file management plugin on Geeklog.net?

since the original File Management plugin is no longer under active
development (and neither are its forks), it would make sense to switch to
the Download plugin, which is maintained (and has an import function).

Things to consider: Since the URLs are not compatible - how much do we care
about those?

I don't care too much about incoming links - we could at least redirect them
to the index page of the Downloads plugin and let visitors search from
there. I care a little more about the links all over geeklog.net, though.

So my question is: How easy would it be to fix those? They're certainly not
all using autotags (which were a late addition to the plugin), but that
could probably be fixed with a few regexps and SQL requests.

But I guess the file ids would also change? I.e. File Management file 42
would not be same as Downloads file 42. If that's the case, it would make a
switchover a lot harder. We currently have 669 files in the File Management
plugin. Fixing all those links manually would be a pain.

So what exactly does the import function of the Downloads plugin do? Is
there a way to hook into it and maybe create some conversion code?

bye, Dirk


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