Comments system
Basic comment functionality has been introduced in the plugin pages.
After some possible ready-to-go solution checking (no sense in reinventing the wheel) it seems that using plain old phpBB forum with some additional hooks should give the most gain with the least coding time.
At the moment the forum is up and running, and a subset of 5 latest comments per plugin is fetched for each plugin page.
Package names as unique IDs
All external numeric IDs have been replaced by unique package names (sort of like a package repository) – this should get more clean results in the long term (something like Debian repo).
For the time being – some links are dead this way.
UPDATE:
Appropriate redirects are already in place.
Rudimentary preview live
The site seems to be working OK when it comes to basic features.
Some content has been added for testing and as a preview. plugbase.net is online as of now. Still long way to go though – both content and functionality-wise.
Initial code base completed
Migration successfully completed, the same can be said about the core for beta.
All base functionality has been implemented in the code, nothing fancy for the time being, but should serve well as a rudimentary preview. And that said, it’s much easier to expand on the base which has been laid out.
Now it’s time for some data and initial testing.
Migrating to Kohana
The decision has been made. CodeIgniter had some limitations (having to be PHP4 compatible), which came up after initial testing, and Kohana PHP framework looks more promising. Currently in transition. Thanks to the early phase, there’s not that much to be rewritten. But still, a couple of hours are needed to migrate the current state.
The project, as a whole, is now probably somewhere around half complete (when talking about initial beta functionality, coding only – content is another case).
Blog started
Development log started. This is an additional place to discuss all issues related to plugbase.net.
First marker:
- Initial draft complete.
- Layout ready, have to add some life to the plugin page.
- Coding begins…