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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: PDF feature.... (Blaine Lang)
   2. Restricted User Admin Feature (Blaine Lang)
   3. Re: PDF feature.... (Tony Bibbs)
   4. Re: Restricted User Admin Feature (Tony Bibbs)
   5. Re: PDF feature.... (Blaine Lang)
   6. Re: PDF feature.... (Tony Bibbs)
   7. Re: Restricted User Admin Feature (Blaine Lang)
   8. Re: Restricted User Admin Feature (Blaine Lang)
   9. Re: Restricted User Admin Feature (Tony Bibbs)

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Message: 1
From: "Blaine Lang" <geeklog at langfamily.ca>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] PDF feature....
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:24:13 -0400
Reply-To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

Hi Tony,

I think this would be usefull and nice if there was a new optional function
that plugins could call to create a pdf from data they are managing as well.

I've looked at the PHP PDF funcitions and it appeared to not be too
involved. I just have not had the client request yet so I left it on the
side for now.

Blaine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Bibbs" <tony at tonybibbs.com>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:01 PM
Subject: [geeklog-devel] PDF feature....


This weekend I'm going to be polishing a PDF generator that a buddy from
work built.  Long story short is I have a working hack that allows you
to view any Geeklog article as a PDF.  The way it works is it send the
printmode HTML to a PDF generator which saves the resulting PDF into a
directory.  Most of my work is going to be code clean up and then adding
a few simple $_CONF vars.  I figured having it will let you all decide
on how else we might use the thing.

I've attached a sample PDF generated using the tool from our Geeklog
intranet site.

--Tony



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Message: 2
From: "Blaine Lang" <geeklog at langfamily.ca>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:31:42 -0400
Subject: [geeklog-devel] Restricted User Admin Feature
Reply-To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

I have a client requesting a MOD to support a "Restricted User Admin" and I
know this is a GL feature that has been requested before.  Is there interest
in rolling this feature once completed and tested into GL ?

The easist way is to create a new feature "RestrictedUserAdmin" and then
have a $_CONF parm that contained the user groups that anyone with this
feature had admin rights over.

The second and more flexible would require a new table and a new admin
screen that would allow the Root to create any number of Restricted Admins
and assign user group ownership to.

Optionally, the $_CONF parm could be an array that supported multiple number
of admins. I don't see it being a commonly used admin feature but one larger
site and corporate users are going to want.

Please let me know if there is general interest or any preferred
implementation direction.

Blaine



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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 08:35:28 -0500
From: Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com>
To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] PDF feature....
Reply-To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

Yeah, the generator take a simple URL as an argument.  It then downloads 
the HTML for the URL and converts it to PDF.  That should make 
integration into GL's plugins a breeze.

Oh, and has Diego gotten back to you?  He should lurk in the IRC channel 
when he gets a chance.

--Tony

Blaine Lang wrote:


>Hi Tony,

>

>I think this would be usefull and nice if there was a new optional function

>that plugins could call to create a pdf from data they are managing as well.

>

>I've looked at the PHP PDF funcitions and it appeared to not be too

>involved. I just have not had the client request yet so I left it on the

>side for now.

>

>Blaine

>----- Original Message ----- 

>From: "Tony Bibbs" <tony at tonybibbs.com>

>To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>

>Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:01 PM

>Subject: [geeklog-devel] PDF feature....

>

>

>This weekend I'm going to be polishing a PDF generator that a buddy from

>work built.  Long story short is I have a working hack that allows you

>to view any Geeklog article as a PDF.  The way it works is it send the

>printmode HTML to a PDF generator which saves the resulting PDF into a

>directory.  Most of my work is going to be code clean up and then adding

>a few simple $_CONF vars.  I figured having it will let you all decide

>on how else we might use the thing.

>

>I've attached a sample PDF generated using the tool from our Geeklog

>intranet site.

>

>--Tony

>

>

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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 08:39:19 -0500
From: Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com>
To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Restricted User Admin Feature
Reply-To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

How, exactly are they restricted?  I'm not totally understanding the 
concept.

--Tony

Blaine Lang wrote:


>I have a client requesting a MOD to support a "Restricted User Admin" and I

>know this is a GL feature that has been requested before.  Is there interest

>in rolling this feature once completed and tested into GL ?

>

>The easist way is to create a new feature "RestrictedUserAdmin" and then

>have a $_CONF parm that contained the user groups that anyone with this

>feature had admin rights over.

>

>The second and more flexible would require a new table and a new admin

>screen that would allow the Root to create any number of Restricted Admins

>and assign user group ownership to.

>

>Optionally, the $_CONF parm could be an array that supported multiple number

>of admins. I don't see it being a commonly used admin feature but one larger

>site and corporate users are going to want.

>

>Please let me know if there is general interest or any preferred

>implementation direction.

>

>Blaine

>

>

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>  

>


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Message: 5
From: "Blaine Lang" <geeklog at langfamily.ca>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] PDF feature....
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:38:13 -0400
Reply-To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

Tony,

Diego did get back to me - did you get my last 2 emails.
One had the attached mssql.class file.

blaine
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Bibbs" <tony at tonybibbs.com>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] PDF feature....


Yeah, the generator take a simple URL as an argument.  It then downloads
the HTML for the URL and converts it to PDF.  That should make
integration into GL's plugins a breeze.

Oh, and has Diego gotten back to you?  He should lurk in the IRC channel
when he gets a chance.

--Tony

Blaine Lang wrote:


>Hi Tony,

>

>I think this would be usefull and nice if there was a new optional function

>that plugins could call to create a pdf from data they are managing as

well.

>

>I've looked at the PHP PDF funcitions and it appeared to not be too

>involved. I just have not had the client request yet so I left it on the

>side for now.

>

>Blaine

>----- Original Message ----- 

>From: "Tony Bibbs" <tony at tonybibbs.com>

>To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>

>Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:01 PM

>Subject: [geeklog-devel] PDF feature....

>

>

>This weekend I'm going to be polishing a PDF generator that a buddy from

>work built.  Long story short is I have a working hack that allows you

>to view any Geeklog article as a PDF.  The way it works is it send the

>printmode HTML to a PDF generator which saves the resulting PDF into a

>directory.  Most of my work is going to be code clean up and then adding

>a few simple $_CONF vars.  I figured having it will let you all decide

>on how else we might use the thing.

>

>I've attached a sample PDF generated using the tool from our Geeklog

>intranet site.

>

>--Tony

>

>

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>http://lists.geeklog.net/listinfo/geeklog-devel

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>

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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 08:56:26 -0500
From: Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com>
To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] PDF feature....
Reply-To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

Right, sorry, I had replied to that hoping to get a tarball of his 
working geeklog installation so as I can simply run diff's and merge.  I 
sent that to him and geeklog-devel.

--Tony

Blaine Lang wrote:


>Tony,

>

>Diego did get back to me - did you get my last 2 emails.

>One had the attached mssql.class file.

>

>blaine

>----- Original Message ----- 

>From: "Tony Bibbs" <tony at tonybibbs.com>

>To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>

>Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 9:35 AM

>Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] PDF feature....

>

>

>Yeah, the generator take a simple URL as an argument.  It then downloads

>the HTML for the URL and converts it to PDF.  That should make

>integration into GL's plugins a breeze.

>

>Oh, and has Diego gotten back to you?  He should lurk in the IRC channel

>when he gets a chance.

>

>--Tony

>

>Blaine Lang wrote:

>

>  

>

>>Hi Tony,

>>

>>I think this would be usefull and nice if there was a new optional function

>>that plugins could call to create a pdf from data they are managing as

>>    

>>

>well.

>  

>

>>I've looked at the PHP PDF funcitions and it appeared to not be too

>>involved. I just have not had the client request yet so I left it on the

>>side for now.

>>

>>Blaine

>>----- Original Message ----- 

>>From: "Tony Bibbs" <tony at tonybibbs.com>

>>To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>

>>Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:01 PM

>>Subject: [geeklog-devel] PDF feature....

>>

>>

>>This weekend I'm going to be polishing a PDF generator that a buddy from

>>work built.  Long story short is I have a working hack that allows you

>>to view any Geeklog article as a PDF.  The way it works is it send the

>>printmode HTML to a PDF generator which saves the resulting PDF into a

>>directory.  Most of my work is going to be code clean up and then adding

>>a few simple $_CONF vars.  I figured having it will let you all decide

>>on how else we might use the thing.

>>

>>I've attached a sample PDF generated using the tool from our Geeklog

>>intranet site.

>>

>>--Tony

>>

>>

>>_______________________________________________

>>geeklog-devel mailing list

>>geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

>>http://lists.geeklog.net/listinfo/geeklog-devel

>>

>>

>>    

>>

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Message: 7
From: "Blaine Lang" <geeklog at langfamily.ca>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Restricted User Admin Feature
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:10:32 -0400
Reply-To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

The "Restricted" admin would be able to admin any users that are in its
group of controlled users.

So team-admin has the "restricted_user_admin" feature and it's been assigned
groups A and B.
Any users in Groups A or B can not be administrated by the "team-admin"

Thats the concept -- I've not looked at the user admin code to see what
issues I may have. I was thinking I would only need to made changes to this
script such that the list of users would be filtered and adittional logic to
check for this restricted admin rights.

This is easier if there is only one level of restricted admin but more
involved if this supports multiple
teamAdmin1 has admin over users in groups 1 2 and 3
teamAdmin2 has admin over users in groups 5 6 and 7

Blaine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Bibbs" <tony at tonybibbs.com>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Restricted User Admin Feature


How, exactly are they restricted?  I'm not totally understanding the
concept.

--Tony

Blaine Lang wrote:


>I have a client requesting a MOD to support a "Restricted User Admin" and I

>know this is a GL feature that has been requested before.  Is there

interest

>in rolling this feature once completed and tested into GL ?

>

>The easist way is to create a new feature "RestrictedUserAdmin" and then

>have a $_CONF parm that contained the user groups that anyone with this

>feature had admin rights over.

>

>The second and more flexible would require a new table and a new admin

>screen that would allow the Root to create any number of Restricted Admins

>and assign user group ownership to.

>

>Optionally, the $_CONF parm could be an array that supported multiple

number

>of admins. I don't see it being a commonly used admin feature but one

larger

>site and corporate users are going to want.

>

>Please let me know if there is general interest or any preferred

>implementation direction.

>

>Blaine

>

>

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>http://lists.geeklog.net/listinfo/geeklog-devel

>

>

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Message: 8
From: "Blaine Lang" <geeklog at langfamily.ca>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Restricted User Admin Feature
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:56:56 -0400
Reply-To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

Thinking about this a bit more -- I see it will be a bit more involved

Restricted admin needs to be able to:
  - Add, edit, delete users
  - Need to be able to add/edit group membership
  - Need to control groups that are listed or availble to this restricted
admin.
  - Can't have them assign Root to  a new user (doh!)

The client has 8000+ users and 800 groups so I will be making some other
admin and UI enhancements.

I've yet to look at the code so I know there are likely more considerations
that I've missed.

Blaine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Blaine Lang" <geeklog at langfamily.ca>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Restricted User Admin Feature


The "Restricted" admin would be able to admin any users that are in its
group of controlled users.

So team-admin has the "restricted_user_admin" feature and it's been assigned
groups A and B.
Any users in Groups A or B can not be administrated by the "team-admin"

Thats the concept -- I've not looked at the user admin code to see what
issues I may have. I was thinking I would only need to made changes to this
script such that the list of users would be filtered and adittional logic to
check for this restricted admin rights.

This is easier if there is only one level of restricted admin but more
involved if this supports multiple
teamAdmin1 has admin over users in groups 1 2 and 3
teamAdmin2 has admin over users in groups 5 6 and 7

Blaine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Bibbs" <tony at tonybibbs.com>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Restricted User Admin Feature


How, exactly are they restricted?  I'm not totally understanding the
concept.

--Tony

Blaine Lang wrote:


>I have a client requesting a MOD to support a "Restricted User Admin" and I

>know this is a GL feature that has been requested before.  Is there

interest

>in rolling this feature once completed and tested into GL ?

>

>The easist way is to create a new feature "RestrictedUserAdmin" and then

>have a $_CONF parm that contained the user groups that anyone with this

>feature had admin rights over.

>

>The second and more flexible would require a new table and a new admin

>screen that would allow the Root to create any number of Restricted Admins

>and assign user group ownership to.

>

>Optionally, the $_CONF parm could be an array that supported multiple

number

>of admins. I don't see it being a commonly used admin feature but one

larger

>site and corporate users are going to want.

>

>Please let me know if there is general interest or any preferred

>implementation direction.

>

>Blaine

>

>

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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 10:40:37 -0500
From: Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com>
To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Restricted User Admin Feature
Reply-To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

With that many users, don't they have some sort of local directory to 
use (e.g. LDAP, AD, Domino)?  If so, this might be a good time to look 
into splitting out authentication and authorization into a more modular 
state to allow for custom security systems.

--Tony

Blaine Lang wrote:


>Thinking about this a bit more -- I see it will be a bit more involved

>

>Restricted admin needs to be able to:

>  - Add, edit, delete users

>  - Need to be able to add/edit group membership

>  - Need to control groups that are listed or availble to this restricted

>admin.

>  - Can't have them assign Root to  a new user (doh!)

>

>The client has 8000+ users and 800 groups so I will be making some other

>admin and UI enhancements.

>

>I've yet to look at the code so I know there are likely more considerations

>that I've missed.

>

>Blaine

>

>----- Original Message ----- 

>From: "Blaine Lang" <geeklog at langfamily.ca>

>To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>

>Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 10:10 AM

>Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Restricted User Admin Feature

>

>

>The "Restricted" admin would be able to admin any users that are in its

>group of controlled users.

>

>So team-admin has the "restricted_user_admin" feature and it's been assigned

>groups A and B.

>Any users in Groups A or B can not be administrated by the "team-admin"

>

>Thats the concept -- I've not looked at the user admin code to see what

>issues I may have. I was thinking I would only need to made changes to this

>script such that the list of users would be filtered and adittional logic to

>check for this restricted admin rights.

>

>This is easier if there is only one level of restricted admin but more

>involved if this supports multiple

>teamAdmin1 has admin over users in groups 1 2 and 3

>teamAdmin2 has admin over users in groups 5 6 and 7

>

>Blaine

>

>----- Original Message ----- 

>From: "Tony Bibbs" <tony at tonybibbs.com>

>To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>

>Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 9:39 AM

>Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] Restricted User Admin Feature

>

>

>How, exactly are they restricted?  I'm not totally understanding the

>concept.

>

>--Tony

>

>Blaine Lang wrote:

>

>  

>

>>I have a client requesting a MOD to support a "Restricted User Admin" and I

>>know this is a GL feature that has been requested before.  Is there

>>    

>>

>interest

>  

>

>>in rolling this feature once completed and tested into GL ?

>>

>>The easist way is to create a new feature "RestrictedUserAdmin" and then

>>have a $_CONF parm that contained the user groups that anyone with this

>>feature had admin rights over.

>>

>>The second and more flexible would require a new table and a new admin

>>screen that would allow the Root to create any number of Restricted Admins

>>and assign user group ownership to.

>>

>>Optionally, the $_CONF parm could be an array that supported multiple

>>    

>>

>number

>  

>

>>of admins. I don't see it being a commonly used admin feature but one

>>    

>>

>larger

>  

>

>>site and corporate users are going to want.

>>

>>Please let me know if there is general interest or any preferred

>>implementation direction.

>>

>>Blaine

>>

>>

>>_______________________________________________

>>geeklog-devel mailing list

>>geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

>>http://lists.geeklog.net/listinfo/geeklog-devel

>>

>>

>>    

>>

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