[pmwiki-users] BlogSimple2: beta version

[Hans]

Monday, February 26, 2007, 7:23:27 PM, Tegan wrote:

> Have you looked into the Fox-based blogging tool?  How would
> you characterize the differences?

I am not Jon, but can perhaps be allowed to contribute to this
question:

FoxBlog as explained on Cookbook/FoxBlog can create blog pages
in various groups, same as BlogSimple2 (BlogSimple need to have all
blog pages in one group).

Fox uses a form on a NewBlogPage page to create a new blog page.
This form uses a template and can be build very flexible to add any
kind of form input fields, like title field, page name field,
radio buttons to make choices etc., apart from a textarea field
to enter the main content.

In contrast BlogSimple and BlogSimple2 uses a NewPageBox, which opens
a new blog page in the normal pmwiki edit mode, with possibility to
preview, use GUI buttons etc. These latter two FoxBlog misses.

Fox adds comments via one FoxCommentBox in the Site group, which is
simply included via the template for each new blog page. BlogSimple
and BlogSimple2 use a CommentBoxPlus, which is included in the blog
page via markup in the GroupFooter or SiteFooter.

All three store the comments on separate pages in a special group for
comments. The comment page is automatically included or tied to the
blog page. This inclusion is much simpler in setup than BlogSimple(2):
it just requires an (:include ..:), whereas the tie used with
BlogSimple needed markup in GroupHeader and GroupFooter.

All three use pagelists for various indexes and displays.

Setup of BlogSimple is "out of the box", it has its own predefined
pages in a special pagestore.

Setup of BlogSimple2 is more elaborate, so is setup of a FoxBlog:
You need to paste code into a number of pages before it runs,
in addition to installing the recipe and defining some special markup
and page variables in config.php.

Jon, one thing I do not understand is your using page text variables
in order to "making the blog posts appear the same when viewed as a
wiki page and within a pagelist." Using BlogSimple in Triad skin the
posts appear the same as Blog page or inside a pagelist which
includes the blog pages. So I have not encountered the problem you are
apparently solving.


Hans