[geeklog-devtalk] What's New Comments Enhancement

[Michael Askew]

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Howdy,

Last April I submitted patches for geeklog and the filemgmt plugin that 
enabled the What's New block to display new comments for plugins. The 
idea seemed well received but the patches haven't yet made it into the 
main geeklog distribution.

Since I have just finished merging geeklog 1.3.11 with my site, I am 
submitting updated patches. There work with geeklog 1.3.11 and filemgmt 
1.3RC3. The modified files are

	geeklog/public_html/docs/plugin.html
	geeklog/public_html/lib-common.php
	geeklog/system/lib-plugins.html

	filemgmt/functions.inc

You can see these changes in action at http://demo.club-lu.net.

Here's a recap of the changes:

* A new plugin API function has been added; it's called 
"plugin_getwhatsnewcommentsinfo_{pi_name}". It takes one argument, the 
id of an item that has new comments (the "sid" column from the comments 
table) and returns a two item array consisting of a name for the item 
and the URL for the item. If for some reason (permissions problems, 
configuration options) the items new comments should not be shown the 
function should return false.

* The COM_whatsNewBlock function now selects all new comments (grouped 
by sid and type) for plugins that support the What's New comment 
section (plus those for articles and polls); for each one it asks the 
appropriate plugin for the name and URL of the item the comments apply 
to, and if appropriate, adds the item to the list of recent comments. 
When 15 items with new comments have been found it stops.

* Two new functions were added to lib-plugins.php to build a list of 
plugins supporting the What's New comment section and to call the 
getWhatsNewCommentInfo function for a given plugin.

-Michael
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