Hi, Andy;
Well, first off, Yogi and other users had posted what would be in/ would be needed in the new version, so you can look up some of those needs through a search.
About 6 months ago I published a hack of the plugin that allows for:
Passing on to sub routines several needed variables, so that they can be available to name files and sub-directories.
That would be the site Title, which the code I posted would be cleaned up, spaces turned to underlines, etc.
The only variables previously available were the link ID. Now with my mods, you could have it build like this:
Andy.com/documents/All_About_Perl.html
or
Andy.com/documents/All_About_Perl_27.html
(27 would be the link id)
One of the other needs that I have, which I am not capable of doing myself (I only Hack Perl, not program it) was solving the problem where you have 20 or 40 different templates. For example, 3 or 5 pages per category, and 5 or more per link. In my system some builds are very conditional.
At any rate, the pages do NOT have to be built ALL the time. In fact to do a full build on my site would take several HOURS, as it would build over 250,000 pages. This in not needed every time, and when you just add a new page in to test, it makes sense (just like Gossamer does) to SKIP (not build) the pages you don't need! So each template/page should have a check box - build or no build. Along those lines, I proposed (to Yogi) a TEST setup where only the page being worked on would be built, for a preset, small number of records. Say, 50 records, or 50 records for EACH template.
By the way, Using Yogi's sytem, I set up a CMS/ Content Management System (the page template for a detailed page will be a article format if a links field is set as a flag to "Article" ).
These are things that come up for
1) Search Engine friendlyness and
2) Ease of working with large sites with many templates/build conditions
And there are other wish list items, template archiving, template sets, more variables and build conditions, and more passing of variables and custom record field info to the pages.
Now, quite a while back, Yogi and I were in touch on these suggested version 2.0 improvements, but people do get busy, so I expect that for him to program a new version, it may or will take a little cash in hand for him. Nothing wrong with that at all.
Now with Yogi's great plugin and my small Mods, my detailed pages no longer look like 17.html or detail17.html, but Yoga_is_Cool_17.html, and the search engines are happy:)
But I need more, and so do other owners of his plugin.
Regards.
webslicer: Jan 15, 2004, 10:58 AM
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