History: ArticleDev

The Articles features works well and no major improvements are planned. Please suggest improvements here.

• Ability to define characteristics based on the article type, as well as to define new types TTW. These settings will be stored in a new table, tiki_article_types. Current list of characteristics to be configured by article type:
  • use_ratings - Reviews currently use ratings, Articles do not
  • show_pre_publ - Display this type prior to it's publication date
  • show_post_expire - Display this type after to it's expiration date
  • heading_only - Never display an article body (can't even enter one)
  • allow_comments - Allow comments for this type
  • show_image - Display the custom or topic image
  • show_avatar - Display the creator's avatar, if set
  • show_author - Display the author
  • show_pubdate - Display the publication date
  • show_expdate - Display the expiration date
  • show_reads - Display the number of times this article was viewed
• New module: Article Topics that lets user selectively display articles by topic; module automatically displays existing topic names; when you click on a topic, tiki-view_articles.php displays only those items containing the selected topic (last option in module should be All Topics).
• Apply patch to show # of comments for each item in tiki-view_articles.php (complete)
• Sticky article; remains at top regardless of publish date
• Default topics and cool icons to make default site development quicker/easier: Announcements, News, Featured Link, etc.
• WYSIWYG editor
• Show categories at bottom of tiki-read_article
• Eliminate 'CMS' nomenclature in favor of 'articles' and make this consistent (complete)
• Instead of WYSIWYG editing, it could be easier to implement some kind of template (or better a set of templetes) which includes automatic image positioning (i.e. top-right) and automatic word wrapping of the text around the pictures (see Typo3)

Dennis Heltzel

Bugs

• Articles : Doesn't expect no image provided (fixed in CVS for 1.8)
• Articles don't expect an invalid file is provided as image (still in CVS 20031025 Chealer9)
• Articles : MySQL error editing a submitted article (fixed for 1.8)

Work for introducing an expiry date is underway. This will result in articles "getting lost" for those who don't pay attention to change the date, until an "Expires" checkbox by default turned off is introduced.

I think it still requires some changes in List articles to show editors the not-yet-published and expired (archived) articles. Chealer9

Articles, some more ideas (Dennis Heltzel + Marc Laporte)

Given: a registered_user submits an article login will (or should) be stored in table cms
if registered_user login equals yes
then get all articles from registered_user
and if
perms to edit_article equals yes
then
set registered_user perms to edit_article eq y
and
set registered_user perms to tiki_p_edit_submission eq y

I need to get phpmyadmin going here and see if I can hammer out the sql statement to make this happen.