Newsletter, forums, sections/categories, future postings, and multiple installs questions
Hi Bernard,
First off I'm impressed and thankful that you took some of my suggestions for the last update. I'm installing it today to try out the new features. Thanks!
1. Should there be any problems in multiple installs of YACS on subdomains? Like health.mydomain.com, money.mydomain.com, etc? I'm mainly concerned about cookies and any thing else that may cause problems.
2. I've seen your writeup on the differences between sections and categories. In real life, though, what is the best practices on when to choose which? What I want to do is have a topic on health let's say. Within health I want further subtopics like heart disease, cancer, weight loss, etc. Then articles in each of the proper subtopics.
3. Will there ever be the chance to post an article in the future. Let's say I'm going on vacation but I have predetermined articles I want autopublished while away.
4. I saw your previous comments about possibly expanding the forums. Have you thought about using Phorum? I've never used Phorum but it does seem to be quite capable and its license should be compatible with your LGPL license.
5. I know you have the letters feature. Any chance of making multiple letters available? If I'm only interested in the health articles I don't want to receive an email about the computer articles.
Thanks.
First off I'm impressed and thankful that you took some of my suggestions for the last update. I'm installing it today to try out the new features. Thanks!
1. Should there be any problems in multiple installs of YACS on subdomains? Like health.mydomain.com, money.mydomain.com, etc? I'm mainly concerned about cookies and any thing else that may cause problems.
2. I've seen your writeup on the differences between sections and categories. In real life, though, what is the best practices on when to choose which? What I want to do is have a topic on health let's say. Within health I want further subtopics like heart disease, cancer, weight loss, etc. Then articles in each of the proper subtopics.
3. Will there ever be the chance to post an article in the future. Let's say I'm going on vacation but I have predetermined articles I want autopublished while away.
4. I saw your previous comments about possibly expanding the forums. Have you thought about using Phorum? I've never used Phorum but it does seem to be quite capable and its license should be compatible with your LGPL license.
5. I know you have the letters feature. Any chance of making multiple letters available? If I'm only interested in the health articles I don't want to receive an email about the computer articles.
Thanks.
Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 6696 posts |
" 1. Should there be any problems in multiple installs of YACS on subdomains? " You are right to mention potential issues, since I have faced these with the demo site of YACS. Because a single Apache server covers both, a single cookie is generated, and this may mean that someone logged as an authenticated user at one site may be induly considered also as an associate at the other site. This is why I have added the instance path in session data, to break the scenario described previously. See how it works in shared/surfer.php. To answer your question: YACS manages security across sub-domains since the Jan-28th release. |
| Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 6696 posts |
" 2. I've seen your writeup on the differences between sections and categories. [...] What I want to do is have a topic on health let's say. Within health I want further subtopics like heart disease, cancer, weight loss, etc. " My advice is simple: put everything into the same section (articles related to health). Then create one category per topic or per sub-topic. An dattach articles accordingly. You can ask YACS to display the top level of the categories tree at the home page. This is what is possible today. In the future, we could change the breadcrumb bar (home >> section) to display categories instead (home >> health >> disease >> etc.) The best option is probably to have a special keyword for that at the section level. Let me have further thinking of that... |
| Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 6696 posts |
" 3. Will there ever be the chance to post an article in the future. Let's say I'm going on vacation but I have predetermined articles I want autopublished while away. " Very good idea, and you are not the first one to ask for that. I suppose we could reuse publication dates that we already have, but to accept dates in the future, which is not the case today.
Since pages are built dynamically, new pages will appear automatically on target dates. |
| Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 6696 posts |
" 5. I know you have the letters feature. Any chance of making multiple letters available? If I'm only interested in the health articles I don't want to receive an email about the computer articles. " So I suppose you already have a big site, haven't you? At the moment the level of granularity you are talking about is already available through RSS feeds, since each section and each category has its own feed. For newsletters it's a little bit more complex because you will have to record user preferences. Also you will add a significant overhead on your side to manage the outgoing messages. Therefore the idea to have one common newsletter once per day/week/month, and to let people ask for more focused information through RSS. |
| Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 6696 posts |
" 3. Will there ever be the chance to post an article in the future. Let's say I'm going on vacation but I have predetermined articles I want autopublished while away. " You will have the chance to do that for every new page if you switch to the today release. |
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