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Consistent Tag Names
This isn’t very important, but it’s been bugging me for awhile. Most tags use an underscore to separate multiple words, but there are two that don’t, but it’d be nice if they did:
sitenamelinklist
Also, on the pages tab section in presentation, “Site Tagline” should be changed to “Site Slogan,” as it isn’t very intuitive (ex: one would think txp:site_tagline would be used instead of site_slogan).
Again, these are minor requests. Thanks.
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#2 2006-08-10 00:30:17
- NyteOwl
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Re: Consistent Tag Names
While it’s just personal preference I’d prefer a tag site_tagline to site_slogan :-p
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Re: Consistent Tag Names
Same here, but I figure it’s easier to just change the link text for the tag builder.
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#4 2006-08-10 11:17:51
- Ace of Dubs
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Re: Consistent Tag Names
While we are bitching about naming conventions, there are two things that always rubbed me the wrong way with TxP…
1. Forms – totally counter-intuitive to what they are, since most html coders think of forms very differently. They should be called chunks, or clips, snips, snippets, etc..
2. Article_Custom: I think this tag confuses the most people of all because it just doesn’t sound like what it does. I dont understand why it’s not called “article_list”… people would be able to grasp that concept a lot faster.
Other than those two niggles, I think TxP has done a splendid job with its terminology.
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Re: Consistent Tag Names
Ace of Dubs wrote:
2. Article_Custom: I think this tag confuses the most people of all because it just doesn’t sound like what it does. I dont understand why it’s not called “article_list”… people would be able to grasp that concept a lot faster.
I’m sure you know by now but here it is: article_list and article_custom . I think that the 2 are aptly named for what they do. If your suggestion is to replace the txp:article tag with article_list, I can see many problems ahead, especially for a lot of sites and people who:
- Changes in code on all live sites, some of which are very complex
- Got used to the tags on live sites for a few years now
- Maintain sites for others
- the list goes on
Minor changes to naming would be fine (given that there would be backward compatibility) but swapping around tags would be a disaster in my view
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Re: Consistent Tag Names
Hey, wait, this is about consistent naming, not redefining!
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#7 2006-08-10 20:22:05
- Ace of Dubs
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Re: Consistent Tag Names
deldindesign wrote:
Hey, wait, this is about consistent naming, not redefining!
With colak’s response we are still on track with your thread, dd. Think about it…
One of TXP’s most used conditional tag is if_article_list, wouldn’t logic would assume that there should be an article_list to compliment such a tag? And isn’t article_custom really just an article_list begin with? In the same spirit of consistency, if_individual_article should be slimmed down to if_article. Makes more sense and less typing.
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#8 2006-08-10 20:40:21
- Mary
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Re: Consistent Tag Names
Doesn’t make more sense to me at all. if_article_list: I expect a list of articles. if_individual_article, I expect one and only one article. article_custom is special condition, always has been, always will. Hence “custom”.
What happens for an individual article? Since when does <txp:article_list /> make a bit of sense for that situation? It doesn’t.
Don’t get carried away with renaming where it’s not warranted and well thought out.
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Re: Consistent Tag Names
Plus technically article_custom can be a list or an individual article depending on the conditions.
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#10 2006-08-11 01:21:27
- Ace of Dubs
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Re: Consistent Tag Names
Interesting hak, I only use them for listing articles. In that respect I suppose the name makes sense.
And yeah… I need to lay off the caffiene 8)
Sorry for de-railing your thread, dd….
Keep up the good struggle
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#11 2006-08-28 12:24:21
- scross
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Re: Consistent Tag Names
If you changed the names (eg. sitename to site_name) then there would be big problems for people who already had millions of these tags in their files. To solve this you could run a script on the update which would convert all these tags to their new names…though I’m not sure whether this would be possible (I’d imagine it would be).
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