Lots and Lots of Changes

[ccagle8]

Hey everyone... as you've probably already noticed, there have been quite a few things that changed over the last few days around here.

First of all, I would like to thank everyone that has contributed to the release of 2.03 in some way, shape or form. Thank you.

Second, there are some new features on get-simple.info:

- Job Board: There is a new job board that everyone can utilize. Anything from plugin or theme development to paid support can be posted here. I will warn that if there begins to be a lot of spam/etc posted on it, I might start charging a small fee to post a new job.

- Extend: This is a place where all developers can host their plugins and themes. Right now, its kind of basic and the search isn't coded yet, but its coming soon. Hopefully this is a might needed feature to help grow the community. Since it is still in beta, if anyone finds problems uploading their files, shoot me a PM or email and I will try and get it fixed immediately. (The login is the same as your forum login)

- Forum Redesign: It has always bothered me that the forum was never the same style as the rest of the site. I fixed that.

- Logo: Nothing new here yet, but I think I might end up asking a professional logo designer to do this for me. I only mention it because it's been a hot topic lately (since we really don't have any type of real logo).

- Bonus: Question in another thread: http://get-simple.info/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1085

[dominionit]

Hi there.. I want to know with
Extend API
Can you maybe add also a link to the file directly ?
Dont know if you have started yet but I was looking at making my next project a theme lookup plugin that will download the theme and install if selected.

[ccagle8]

http://get-simple.info/extend-repository/api-usage/

Great idea, it's been added along with the username of the owner

[Zegnåt]

It’s been added along with the username of the owner

Are downloads through that address logged and added to the download counter? It should, otherwise downloads through third parties will not be counted.

[dominionit]

Hi there Zegnåt if I can suggest the the file download url be changed to something like
http://get-simple.info/extend/filesdownl...file_id=30
and then you can control the counter

.. maybe silly question or suggestion. The URL's you send repeat the part
"http://get-simple.info/extend/"
Do you think one can add a base url in api for example
[base_url] => http://get-simple.info/
[path] => theme/cardinal/30/
[file] => files/2/cardinal.zip

this can save data space being send back if the list maybe becomes big ?

Just suggestion..

thanks

[Zegnåt]

Hi there Zegnåt if I can suggest the the file download url be changed to something like http://get-simple.info/extend/filesdownl...file_id=30 and then you can control the counter

Yes, all normal downloads already go through a PHP file. But I have no control over those things, Chris manages the website. That’s why I asked him.

Actually, using http://get-simple.info/extend/files/2/cardinal.zip is great for download too. I would like to suggest we start using HTACCESS to rewrite links to the files folder to go through a PHP script that keeps track of the number of downloads. That gives us clean links everywhere.

[dominionit]

Actually, using http://get-simple.info/extend/files/2/cardinal.zip is great for download too. I would like to suggest we start using HTACCESS to rewrite links to the files folder to go through a PHP script that keeps track of the number of downloads. That gives us clean links everywhere.

I second that.. great idea !

[ccagle8]

i will try and get to figure out the .htaccess rewrite rule later on, but for now, i replaced the api to return the path that increments the download counter.

[RobA]

I saw a posting in another thread that SQL support will be added.

I have been working on a OO plugin framework as I find I keep rewriting the same code over and over.

In essence this framework allows you to set up configuration parameters of various types (text, integer, boolean (checkbox), and droplist) with default values, labels and descriptions; and provides the code to create/read/update these parameters as well as (if desired) provide a generic back-end for editing these.

I am about half way through, but if SQL support is coming to core I would like to leverage that.

Is SQL support in the the current dev snapshots?

I've also been giving thought to writing a plugin management plugin that leverages this framework (I'd have to add plugin install, update and deletion code to the framework to clean up configuration files/sql tables). Initially this would only work by uploading a complete plugin zip-file via the plugin management plugin, but if the extend api is extended (ha) to provide a data set of all plugin, it could be set up to install new plugin from extend directly.

The other thing the core really needs (IMOO) is a way to order plugin execution so things like content caching plugins or regexp content matching plugins can be tweaked to run in the correct order.

-Rob A>