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#25 2005-06-11 01:46:40
- Andrew
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Re: basic blog stats plugin
So… at what point do I split a feature request out into its own separate plugin? Does it make sense to have like 10 sub-plugins contained by this one, or should I break a few of these feature requests into their own individual ones?
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it depends if these separate features could grow or be improved upon on their own, or whether ti’s better to have more functioanlity in one plugin with several variables.
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#27 2005-06-11 18:00:27
- Andrew
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Re: basic blog stats plugin
In response to the word count request… you’re in luck – it already exists: klp_word_count
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#28 2005-06-11 18:35:58
- Andrew
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Re: basic blog stats plugin
And in response to the pageviews request, I’ve managed to implelement the feature successfully (as a separate plugin). However, the main problem is storage of the pageview data itself. The “suggested” place to store plugin-related information is in txp_prefs, but that field is varchar(255), which basically means there isn’t a chance it’d be able to store serialized data for over a few dozen articles.
So then we’re back to external data storage in a flat file, which seems a bit kludgy but could be done (opinions?). It could also be done as a separate table, but if you’re going to take that route you might as well develop a full-featured statistics plugin, which I’m not really interested in developing.
I’ve added a few features to this particular package and am planning on re-releasing it under the name ajw_blog_stats (I spoke with Gordon and he’s too busy with studies to continue supporting it). I’ll probably be done testing/tweaking it sometime today or tomorrow.
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I wish I had something intelligent to input here, or a suggestion to make – data storage choices for this are over my head, I’m afraid.
I just felt the need to throw in a bit of cheerleading on this (hip hip hooray) so you’d know I’m still watching this intently to see what you put together on this. :)
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thanks for the link andrew:)
andrew, how about releasing the plugins indivudually, but with the option to have them work together in some form? I know Mary did something like that between upm image popper and upm quicktags.
If it’s going to limit how and what features are implemented in order to achieve a certain effect, then it might be best to break it down than have an all in one solution I suppose
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#31 2005-06-12 17:52:48
- Andrew
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Re: basic blog stats plugin
I’m officially retiring the gbl_post_count part of this plugin and referring people to mdn_count. As for the total comments & top commenter, they’ll get broken out into their own separate plugins (as long as they don’t also already exist elsewhere).
Here’s the first of the two: ajw_top_commenter (replaces gbl_top_comment_writer)
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#32 2005-06-14 01:03:52
- Andrew
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Re: basic blog stats plugin
… and the second ajw_total_comments (replaces gbl_comment_count)
Last edited by Andrew (2005-06-14 02:05:54)
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@Andrew, you are generally missed.
For others, fyi: htn_comment_count all seems to be working well in TXP 4.6.2
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