TOTAL rewrite of the books module: looking for testers now
By: matz (matz) 2006.04.13
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I am happy to report that http://www.vedrine.net is now running a beta
version of books .76 This is a TOTAL rewrite of the books module (yes it was a huge works, only permitted by the fact my students are now blocking my University for 2 weeks so I had a lot of spare time !!)
New features
- full hierachic tree of categories (any level of subcategories
allowed). A migration script is provided to migrate your subcategories
to categories with the correct parent.
- use the Ratings module for ratings and EZComments module for comments(a migration script for EZComments and an improved Ratings module with migration menu are provided)
- totally pnAPI compliant
please travel over to vedrine.net and get into contact with the developer - Jean-michel Védrine <vedrine@vedrine.net> :: add your ideas, suggestions and your general praise to improve this great module
- tableless design of all templates
- use CSS stylesheet
- redesigned blocks (also templated)
- much cleaner admin panel
It is still a beta version and I already noticed some bugs (for instance
the fact that clicking on an author's name link to an old URL)
I want also verify that all pages outputs are HTML compliant.
Also the new documentation must be written.
I am very proud of this version because the books module code was
derivated from an old version of the Web_Links module and now the son is
ready for .8 even before it's ancestor
But I must also admit that I borowed some code for the NOC project that
is now rewritting the Downloads and Web_Links modules !!
Jean-Michel Védrine
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1. Lindbergh wrote on Apr 16, 2006 at 10:09 AM
It would be nice to see some credits in the books module for code you browed! As far as I have seen a lot of the code comes from the new Downloads.
2. matz wrote on Apr 17, 2006 at 11:17 AM
Hello Jean Michel Vedrine,thanks for the hard work and for the improvements.
All your work seems very fruitful - this is one of the most wanted module. Your work is appreciated by many Nukers.
BTW - as far as i know the previous module, called Amazone 1-xx, that was derived from the Amazon-Module of mister Edgardo Diaz has some serious bottlenecks.
If you take a look at the method that ensures the data-transfer from amazon - there were several ways to accomplish this: Fopen is one ! and that causes serious bottlenecks on many servers.
just look at the discussion on the developersite of Amazon-module (for PHP-Nuke) and see the workaround. ( http://preciogasolina.com/postlite344-fopen.html )
cite: "My host has disabled PHP's allow_url_fopen which includes the "fopen" command for security reasons which doesn't allow this module to work. They instead recommend curl functions. ...."
travel over to read the full thread http://preciogasolina.com/postlite344-fopen.html
Jean Michel, please make sure that you don ´t miss this important issue - in order to make your work complete, and to hit the needs of the users with (those limitated server environments, where Fopen is not allowed)
And on a last sidenote; release early - and often - to get the users involved early. This opens the development to a broader audience and gives you much feedback. ( http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/neff-stark.pdf ) open the great options and benefit from the large commuity that can assist you.
so i can second the statement of the article-author: "please travel over to vedrine.net and get into contact with the developer - Jean-michel Védrine <vedrine@vedrine.net> :: add your ideas, suggestions and your general praise to improve this great module...."
just my 2cents.
matz
3. Slugger wrote on Apr 24, 2006 at 12:28 AM
Matz,This module is not an AmaZone derivitative, and never was. It is very different from Amazone; however, I did take a past version and link the titles to AmaZone to get the detail information including price and availablily.
Someday, I'd like to see the features of this module merged into AmaZone so we build our own categories and don't have to use Amazon's categories which show their lack of expertise with regard to certain subject.
Slugger