Any interest in these plugins?

alicson · 2005-02-26 17:50:57

hi Adrian, once you (and anyone working with you) gets those plugins together, perhaps you’d be willing to post them up at Textpattern Resources so the community can find them?

and actually, if you’d like to list the ones you’re working on, with a bit of description about them, and categorize them under “In the hopper” as plugins that are not complete but that are being developed, then that could be useful too…

drop me an email if anything… ‘couldn’t find an email link for you…
thanks :)

Flashpix · 2005-02-26 18:03:36

Just a quick note: sifr_headline sounds a lot like zem_ir which is already finished and works quite well. If my lousy hoster would support GD2 i would’ve been using it already.

So maybe you can spare your work and finish most_popular_articles and autolinks, which would be both interesting for me :)

duffe · 2005-02-27 12:28:52

OK hpw_most_popular_articles should be good to go.

Download

You will also need my shared library

Pretty easy to install – just use:

<ol><txp:hpw_most_popular_articles wraptag="li" limit="10" /></ol> to create an ordered list of the top 10 most accessed articles.

Each article gets its title displayed in a link to the article URL. Hopefully the article URL works in both clean and messy modes.

The attribute wraptag can be used to specify which html element will wrap around the article link, while the limit attribute determines how many articles will be displayed — eg top 5, top 10.

I’ve tested in the RC2 mod by Manfre under Apache and IIS.

Any problems, let me know!

Enjoy

Next up, autolinks.

Last edited by duffe (2005-02-27 12:30:17)

duffe · 2005-02-27 12:47:00

Just a quick note: sifr_headline sounds a lot like zem_ir

Yeah, they’re both solutions to the same problem. However, if I remember correctly, one problem that PHP generated images aren’t too good at solving is wrapping text across multiple lines. This is something sIFR can do. There are other advantages to siFR such as a smaller bandwidth hit, user-selectable text (albeit clunkily) and hover colours. Of course, there are disadvantages too which may make zem_ir a better option… but it’s all about choice!

perhaps you’d be willing to post them up at Textpattern Resources so the community can find them

Will do!

Jeremie · 2005-02-27 15:08:00

SIFR and zem_ir are two ways of solving the same issue. Frankly I’m more leaning toward zem_ir right now (thinking that server side code and client side .png is more accessible than javascript/flash) but it has its drawbacks too.

alicson · 2005-02-27 19:01:27

‘have hpw_most_popular_articles running on textpattern.org now. very painless, thanks :)

bleveck · 2005-02-27 20:33:29

Kinda late in posting… but all l your plugins sound interesting!!

NeilA · 2005-02-27 23:45:11

> alicson wrote:

> ‘have hpw_most_popular_articles running on textpattern.org now. very painless, thanks :)

Is this plugin supposed to work under RC3?

Installed it and the shared library… but no output from the tag…

Anything in particular I should check?

Thanks.

duffe · 2005-02-28 11:39:18

Is this plugin supposed to work under RC3?

I haven’t tested this specifically in RC3, in fact I haven’t even tried RC3 yet! I just assumed RC3 was backwards compatable with oldschool plugins.

It might be something else though, do you have logging enabled in your preferences?

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NeilA · 2005-02-28 19:09:30

Just tried it again, and guess what? It works…!

I don’t think I did any different, but there you are…

Nice little plugin – thanks for your work Duffe…

NeilA · 2005-03-01 02:03:09

Duffe,

Just curious – but how often is the ‘most_often’ information updated?

I gather it reads the TXP logs, but doe sit do this everytime the page the plugin is on is loaded?

Having had it working on a site (running RC3) for a few hours now, I notice that the list of articles hasnt changed…

Thanks

Last edited by NeilA (2005-03-01 02:38:50)

duffe · 2005-03-01 11:26:26

Just curious – but how often is the ‘most_often’ information updated?

Glad you got it working. Yeah, it does a re-count everytime the page is loaded. I wouldn’t expect there to be much change after a few hours, but it all depends on your traffic and the frequency you post articles.

I think there’s a preference in Textpattern somewhere where you can tell it how long log data should be kept for. I think the default is two weeks. Because log data is automatically removed, this plugin can only determine “recent popularity”. However the beauty of this is it directs readers to articles of interest to people in recent times.

In the next version of this plugin I want to add the ability to place hit counter alongside each headline so you can see just how popular the articles are!

alicson · 2005-03-01 16:45:18

> duffe wrote:
> In the next version of this plugin I want to add the ability to place hit counter alongside each headline so you can see just how popular the articles are!

there actually is an existing plugin that does that: ras_counter

NeilA · 2005-03-01 19:04:13

> duffe wrote:

> bq. Just curious – but how often is the ‘most_often’ information >updated?

>Glad you got it working. Yeah, it does a re-count everytime the page is loaded. I wouldn’t expect there to be much change after a few hours, but it all depends on your traffic and the frequency you post articles.

Cool – thanks Duffe…

Last edited by NeilA (2005-03-01 19:05:09)

creativesplash · 2005-03-05 17:37:17

Hey Duffe, great plugin and great ideas!! I would like to know if you are releasing the Autolinks plugin soon.

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