With SVN revision 241 I’ve added a new functionality to FlatPress along with a bunch of fixes to some inconsistencies of the backend.
For the latter, I’ve just removed the old ugly array_change_key_case by setting to lowercase array strings at a lower level; not really awesome news here :D
What’s really cool (in my obviously not-so-humble opinion) it’s a new mechanism I’ve implemented to store your entries.
What was wrong with the old? Nothing much really, apart from the fact that a failure in the index backend would have prevented your entry to be saved.
Artist’s Rendition:
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The new system is a little bit more cumbersome, but should be safer.
In short, before the entry is added to the indices it is stored in the draft area (fp-content/content/drafts/); once each index has been updated the draft is then MOVED to the correct place (fp-content/content/YY/MM/).
This might result sometimes in a duplicate draft/published entry when a failure occurs in the middle of the process, but it is not really a defect.
No, it’s not a 2-Phase Locking :D, but it’s still something.
If you know you usually edit a few times your entry before it’s really definitive, as I do, in order to work better, I suggest to always save as DRAFT, and only FINALLY publish.
In rev.241 there are other fancy additions; the error message connected with write failure is now more descriptive in the panel; also you’ll get a nice yellow notice when you’re editing a draft, remembering you the entry is not published.
I’ve also added a few classes to the <body> tag of the panel; in this case .draft will dim your background to a darker shaede of grey to remember you visually the editing is ’safer’.
I hope you’ll like it!
bye
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 17:48:20
Hello!
I’ve got a question: I’ve the plugin “prettyurls” activated and it works really fine. But I wish, that there would be a nicer output without the “index.php”. I’m coming from Wordpress, so I know, that there was only an “index.php” if “mod_rewrite” was off. But my webspace supports “mod_rewrite” supports it, so I think there have to be an posibility do make it look more pretty. ;)#
Thanks
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 18:42:14
of course there is http://www.flatpress.org/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=549&page=1#Item_2
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 04:39:10
Hello,
I see you using smiley pictures as in yahoo a lots! Although flatpress don’t have default smiley pictures, I’ve uploaded it into my site, and use it usually!
But isn’t it uncomfortable for anyone who like these smile face? I suggest that you should design a new plugin named “smiley picture”?
I also want to change the fonts, include my own fonts, and size, color … ( without html ) when i write entries.
Thanks!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 08:27:51
Tuan Tran, on the wiki there already two plugins for that, “emoticons” and “smilies” http://wiki.flatpress.org/res:plugins