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Re: Must everything be php?
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Fri, 20 Feb 2004 22:38:01 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Don Heyse wrote:
> > > Why does everything on ldraw.org have to be converted to php links?
> > > This is insane. For instance, I noticed the "recent article box" on
> > > the top right of the main page says Bram Lambrecht's LDraw & Ledit
> > > tutorial was posted on the Feb. 10th. I'd really like to link to that
> > > tutorial from my website, but unfortunately it's now a useless mess.
> > > None of the links work because they're not that hideous php format:
> > >
> > > http://www.ldraw.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=262
> > >
> > > That means nothing to me. What's wrong finding a nice place for the
> > > original html files? Something with an catchy name like this:
> > >
> > > http://www.ldraw.org/tutorials/LdrawAndLedit.html
> > >
> > > and just skipping the whole php tranformation.
> > >
> > > By the way, where do less recent articles go once they scroll off the
> > > bottom of the new articles box? Do they disappear, never to be seen
> > > again? Or Is there a list of all the older php articles somewhere?
> > >
> > > Also, do you really want a box with recently posted, but pretty much
> > > useless garbage, right there on the front page? I got all excited
> > > when I saw the tutorial was posted, but it didn't last once I clicked
> > > on the link and saw the mess.
> > >
> > > Don
> >
> > Don,
> >
> > I'm still working on the posting of this tutorial. This mean that none
> > of the links internal to the tutorial will work until I'm done.
>
> I realize that. But why do you even want to convert it? It seems like
> the php content management system you're using must be unbearably
> tedious. Can't you just put it somewhere and submit an article that
> points to it?
I'd love to but I can't
>
> Meanwhile why highlight your unfinished work in progress, right on
> the front page?
This is annoying but a limitation that I have to deal with.
> > As for the long urls, there is a simple shortcut. Note the "sid=262"
> > postion of the url. Take that number and use the following format:
> >
> > http://www.ldraw.org/article/xxx
> >
> > Replace xxx with the number you noted above. This works for all the
> > articles on LDraw.org.
>
> Ok, you've got short names, but "sid=262" still doesn't mean anything
> to me. Can you make a nice shortcut link to article 262 that conveys
> some idea what's in the article?
I can but it would require a specific redirect. I'd rather just place a link to
the article on the tutorials main page.
> > The articles on LDraw.org are split up into Topics. The master
> > Topic list can be found here:
> >
> > http://www.ldraw.org/Topics
> >
> > From there you can link out to the individual article lists.
>
> How do I navigate to this page from the main page? I still think
> I should be able to get a list of ALL article titles. I can search
> that much faster locally than the ldraw.org php system can serve up
> the split topic lists.
You can't. I made this decision since all of the finished articles are linked
to via the side bar or on the page the side bar links to. I can add this back
on to the main page. As far as a master list of article, this is another
limitation of the system that I don't currently have the ability to fix.
> Sorry if I seem picky, but with all the talk about revamping the
> lugnet home page, I thought I'd just share the love a bit. :^)
Well, no system is perfect and what's good for some is not good for others. I
still think that the new LDraw.org site is much better than the old in regards
to the loaction of information.
-Orion
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