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Considerations for a better 1.6 sNews

by funlw65 on 08.08.2008. 23:23

This is not a new phrase or idea. On snewscms.com is already a "movement", people trying to make a better 1.6 version. Is not about a "riot" because everyone (sNews developers, moders and users) is contributing.

sNews architecture is based mainly (I can say, exclusively based on) on categories so, having an 0 id category or not having a category for a page or article is a bad thing, against sNews CMS himself.

On my package, for pages I have "Page" category (can be anything, like "Static", but not "Pages" because this is a "reserved" word in sNews), hidden from Category menu. And is working good, inside code being easy to see when is about a static page.

In order to reduce sql queries from user side, is also a good idea to add "name category" and "seftitle category" (right now, I don't remember exactly their name) fields to article table, at the article creation moment.

To be continued...

Tags · sNews · CMS · 1.6 · architecture · solutions · thoughts

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KPicasa for sNews

by funlw65 on 15.07.2008. 01:05

I have a work in progress, a port from Wordpress. Is about KPicasa. For Wordpress, you can download it from here. Author's site is here and demo site is here.

Not much right now! Only a single function. No settings in control panel, no language variables, no pagination. The plug-in is hardly crippled. But mechanism is working! I'm glad...

How you use it? After you click on a thumbnail, you can use arrow buttons from your keyboard for navigation and escape button for closing the zoomed image. Or you can use only the mouse. At your choice. Go, read more to see the gallery in action - so far.

Attention! The gallery is using highslide (something like lightbox) so, you need javascript enabled.

Tags · KPicasa · plug in · Wordpress · photo · gallery · sNews · port

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BBCode parser for comments

by funlw65 on 27.03.2008. 22:56

I found a nice bb code parser in Article Script 1.1 of Johan Hornquist, which I`m using it in my comments. I disabled few options but still available others like:

[b]your text[/b] - bold
[i]your text[/i] - italic
[u]your text[/u] - underline
[align=(left|center|right)]your text[/align] - text alingment
[quote]your text[/quote] - quote