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The OCI_Item_RSS_Listener class will obviously only handle *new* content items coming in from any RSS feed.

* A site designer could hook up a variety of feeds and have them go to a particular container like /feeds.

* A group admin could hook up group specific feeds to automatically create items in the group tree.

* I could have feeds that I’m interested in go to /members/burtadsit/profile

The OCI_Item_XMLRPC_Listener class will respond to all the usual suspect actions – create/update/delete from an external source. The requirement will be that the external site be running a subset of the bpContents plugin. An external site can run all the normal listener derived classes like OCI_Item_Blog_Post_Listener and instead of stuffing the OCI_Items into a local content tree it packages the items up and sends them off to a remote site.

New version bpContents http://ourcommoninterest.org/downloads/bpcontents011.zip

Changes 0.11

– Reworked the OCI_Container class to be easier to use and less confusing.

– Added explicit support for ‘tags’ as a container type OCI_TAG

– Added a new table ‘oci_tree_meta’. Node meta table. Visit the back end as site admin to add the new table.

Three new functions for node class: get_node_meta(), update_node_meta(), delete_node_meta(). Now any node can have meta data associated with it. Planning on using this for things like item sequencing for user defined sequencing of items within a tag. Item counts in tags for tag cloud generation. Etc…

– Started to split up functions and classes: new file bpcontents-functions.php

I love it when a project finally starts to come together and I can add features without worrying too much about “Is it the new code or is the old code not working”. Things are beginning to accelerate.

http://ourcommoninterest.org/downloads/bpcontents012.zip

Changes 0.12

– Added OCI_Term, OCI_Item delete rec prohibition to not allow deletion of a term or item if instances exist in the tree.

– Added term, item delete record with deletion of all instances as well: $this->delete_instances_also()

– Changed OCI_Item_Listener to delete the item and all instances on delete_item()

– Removed the overly paranoid and incorrect assumption that mptt get() ops requires a table lock. Doing a table write lock when changing the table suspends all threads until that op is complete. Duh.

– Added OCI_Walker_Container class derived from wp’s tree Walker class. Replaces the print_tree() guts with something useful and configurable down the road.

– Added OCI_Container::print_tag_cloud() , generate_tag_cloud() both blatantly stolen from wp.

Changes 0.14

– Fixed terms coming in from blog posts with only ‘names’ and not ‘slugs’ also. Propagating that fact down to term creation in bpcontents.

– Added getting terms by array of ids in OCI_Term with one query like getting an array of items in OCI_Items

– Removed the method OCI_Container::get_containers() as containers should manage tags and items only. Makes things simpler. Use the tree functions for container management and info.

– Added OCI_Container::get() and get_by_meta() to allow quick path lookups of node id from node meta to eliminate mult queries when parsing the path

– Nobody reads this stuff. I like cats more than I like dogs. Cats fend for themselves and enjoy killing small animals. I do too.

– Added OCI_Item_User class. This allows users to be treated like content items. Bagged, tagged and categorized.

– Created bpContents as a member theme component. Add a crude component function to the member theme. Same functionality as the oci-test-template.php. Just dumps the /recent container.

– Testing the OCI_Item_User class by creating new user items, based on the content author, for each new content item created.

– Reverted back to the oci-content directory structure. Still distributing as bpcontents.zip

http://ourcommoninterest.org/downloads/bpcontents014.zip

Changes 0.16

– Dropped some irrelevent indexes in a few tables. ** Drop all your tables and let them be recreated again. **

– Added profile create manual item UI. Title, Link, Description, Tags. Goes to the user’s profile container.

http://code.ourcommoninterest.org/2009/05/02/bpcontents-01-core-code-dev-sneak-peek/

Changes 0.18

– Pulled breadcrumbs and tag cloud out of the OCI_Container class. Made them independent template tags.

– Dropped the use of the OCI_TAG container type. Everything is either a container or an item. Tags and Categories can be simulated with out having them be explicit node types.

– Forcing containers used in templates to have a base path of some sort based on the context of the template. Profile containers would be /members/user. Group containers would be /groups/groupslug.

– Eliminated the url action vars to have a full path. /tag is used instead of /members/user/tag

– Containers, clouds and crumbs respond to two parts of the url. The ‘context’ part and the ‘parameter’ part

Ex: ‘http://mysite.org/members/user/contents/browse/tag1/tag2’

‘http://mysite.org’ is tossed by bp as irrelevent trash. Which it is.

‘/members/user’ is the context found with oci_get_the_context() which returns a path string

‘/tag1/tag2’ are the parameters found with oci_get_the_context_parameters() which returns a path string

‘contents’ in bp is the $bp->current_component

‘browse’ is the $bp->current_action

By combining ‘context’ and ‘parameters’ we get the full container path in the tree ‘/members/user/tag1/tag2’.

– Fixed the new item and browse templates so that the breadcrumbs and cloud track properly.

– Fixed the new item ‘new container’ and ‘new item’ forms submit and redisplay, so that the path currently being viewed is redisplayed again.

– Added an ‘action’ parameter to the crumbs and cloud args list so that urls can be built properly based on the form they are in or where we want urls to link to.

‘http://mysite.org/members/user/contents/ *browse* /tag1/tag2’

In the url above *browse* is the action that will be triggered in the component ‘contents’. It allows the next menu item to be chosen by the template when the cloud builds the tag links.

http://code.ourcommoninterest.org/2009/05/02/bpcontents-01-core-code-dev-sneak-peek/

Yes I know it’s been several days since an update to bp contents. The core is working and I’m struggling with getting this up and running in the member theme properly.