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PHP-Nuke database converter

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Thursday, December 20 2001 @ 09:08 pm EST

You seem to be making Geeklog more modular and allowing for third party plugins, so mostly it's a matter of carrying on as you are.

One feature that would be nice, is a script that will allow users to upgrade from PHP-Nuke more easily.

As far as I can tell, anyone who wishes to make the switch has to dump their existing PHP-Nuke database and add the data from their existing articles into Geeklog manually.

I know automating this process would make life much simpler for those that have existing PHP-Nuke sites, as I fall into that category myself.

In case you're wondering, I chose PHP-Nuke over Geeklog, because at the time there wasn't an integrated forum for Geeklog.

Now that there is, I'd like to switch to Geeklog, which I was more impressed with anyway.

Post edit for users

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Thursday, December 20 2001 @ 09:26 pm EST

There doesn't seem to be an option for users to edit their own posts once they have been submitted to the site.

Is this something that could be added easily, or is there a reason it isn't implemented?

Comment System

Authored by: Tony on Friday, December 21 2001 @ 07:06 am EST

Yeah, that should be doable. It\'s just been something that has never been implemented. The comment engine in Geeklog, though usable and generally designed OK, didn\'t take into consideration that comments can happen to things other than polls and stories. In our 2.0 sytem, comments are very generic and they will have security on them the same way stories/links/events/etc do in Geeklog 1.3.

I\'ll see if we can give some sort of edit link in a pre-2.0 release...just depends on how much time I get ;-)

As for the Nuke/Post-Nuke/PHPWeblog/etc port...I\'d love to see people write converters plugins for them. It\'s going to have to come from someone outside the core GL development group, though, so we can focus on making Geeklog better.

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Comment System

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Saturday, December 22 2001 @ 07:48 pm EST

It would definitely be useful for comments on stories when you wish to add something trivial without creating another post.

The preview is good for checking for typos etc. but doesn't help if you suddenly remember you wanted to say something else just after hitting the submit button.

As long as the comment gets marked with an "Edited by whoever at some time on some day" type message as most forums do with edited posts, it should be clear that editing has taken place.

Geeklog isn't the only system of this type that doesn't allow users to edit comments though - in fact I haven't seen any that do.

I'm just used to forums I guess.

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