[geeklog-modules] Where Do Plugin Comments Go?

[Blaine Lang]

Joat, Plugins can use the GL comment engine. The FileMgmt Plugin is an
example of this. You should review the Plugin Developers Guide - link is in
the References Block on the main gl.net site.

Blaine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joat Dede" <w9c at earthlink.net>
To: <geeklog-modules at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 6:39 PM
Subject: [geeklog-modules] Where Do Plugin Comments Go?


> Can plugins add comments to GL's comments table or is that one
> reserved for stories and polls only?  After going through the
> core code, it appears it wouldn't harm anything to add comments
> from other plugins into it.
>
> Where are we suppose to add search capability for comments --
> inside search.php or self-contained in the plugin?  If it's the
> latter, then this section here in the function searchform will
> pull up user uids on all comments including those inserted by
> other plugins (if we're allowed to add to that table).  This only
> becomes an issue though if the visitor selects the type
> "comments" and the user never made any to stories and polls.  I'm
> not sure if this would cause a fatal error or a no results found
> message.
>
>     if ($_CONF['contributedbyline'] == 1) {
>         $searchform->set_var('lang_authors', $LANG09[8]);
>         $searchusers = array();
>         $result = DB_query("SELECT DISTINCT uid FROM
> {$_TABLES['comments']}");
>         for ($i = 1; $i <= DB_numRows($result); $i++) {
>             $A = DB_fetchArray($result);
>             $searchusers[$A['uid']] = $A['uid'];
>         }
>
> Joat
>
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