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Hi Mugur, and everyone

Well done on getting the 2.3 beta release out! I'm looking forward to
trying it.

Back on 2.2.2, I have a few small queries relating to the campsite
template language etc:

* Is there any way to customise the appearance of the search box
without hand-coding the entire search form (eg in the fastnews
sitemap column)?
* It would be good if there were the ability to create RFC-822
format dates using a %r code a la PHP. Getting around this lack
for the RSS gizmo required some messy kludging.
* Are timestamps for articles actually timestamps, or just dates?
How are they stored in the DB?
* I don't suppose there's a way to get abstracted content from the
article in the search results? Did someone do some work
integrating mnogosearch at some point?

Cheers,

JP

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--- John Pye wrote:
> * Is there any way to customise the appearance of the search box
> without hand-coding the entire search form (eg in the fastnews
> sitemap column)?
No

> * It would be good if there were the ability to create RFC-822
> format dates using a %r code a la PHP. Getting around this lack
> for the RSS gizmo required some messy kludging.
You can format the date which way you want, see Campsite manual chapters
'3.9.4.3 Date' and '3.9.4.2 Print'.

> * Are timestamps for articles actually timestamps, or just dates?
> How are they stored in the DB?
They are stored as DATE.

> * I don't suppose there's a way to get abstracted content from the
> article in the search results? Did someone do some work
> integrating mnogosearch at some point?
What abstracted content do you need?

Mugur

>
> Cheers,
>
> JP
>

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Hi Mugur

Campsite doesn't have the necessary date-display field codes to do this
properly, as far as I can work out. Please check out http://php.net/date
- abbreviated month/day names were missing, as I recall. Also timezone, etc.

Cheers

JP

Mugur Rus wrote:

>--- John Pye wrote:
>
>
>> * Is there any way to customise the appearance of the search box
>> without hand-coding the entire search form (eg in the fastnews
>> sitemap column)?
>>
>>
>No
>
>
>
>> * It would be good if there were the ability to create RFC-822
>> format dates using a %r code a la PHP. Getting around this lack
>> for the RSS gizmo required some messy kludging.
>>
>>
>You can format the date which way you want, see Campsite manual chapters
>'3.9.4.3 Date' and '3.9.4.2 Print'.
>
>
>
>> * Are timestamps for articles actually timestamps, or just dates?
>> How are they stored in the DB?
>>
>>
>They are stored as DATE.
>
>
>
>> * I don't suppose there's a way to get abstracted content from the
>> article in the search results? Did someone do some work
>> integrating mnogosearch at some point?
>>
>>
>What abstracted content do you need?
>
>Mugur
>
>
>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>JP
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
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>Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.
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Hi John,

I can't implement abbreviations easily, because right now Campsite doesn't
support the translation of these abbreviations to different langauges, so you
can only get them in English. And I don't want to confuse users - in case they
publish in different languages. Then, I'm reluctant to put any more work into
the current C++ parser knowing that it will be thrashed anyway. Also, I don't
want to spend my time with the clumsy date types in C/C++ which are hard to
manipulate. So you'll have to wait until we replace the C++ parser with a PHP
one.

I would appreciate if you would input this feature description into
bugs.campware.org and schedule it for 3.0.

Mugur

--- John Pye wrote:
> Hi Mugur
>
> Campsite doesn't have the necessary date-display field codes to do this
> properly, as far as I can work out. Please check out http://php.net/date
> - abbreviated month/day names were missing, as I recall. Also timezone, etc.
>
> Cheers
>
> JP
>
> Mugur Rus wrote:
> >--- John Pye wrote:
> >> * Is there any way to customise the appearance of the search box
> >> without hand-coding the entire search form (eg in the fastnews
> >> sitemap column)?
> >No
> >
> >> * It would be good if there were the ability to create RFC-822
> >> format dates using a %r code a la PHP. Getting around this lack
> >> for the RSS gizmo required some messy kludging.
> >You can format the date which way you want, see Campsite manual chapters
> >'3.9.4.3 Date' and '3.9.4.2 Print'.
> >
> >> * Are timestamps for articles actually timestamps, or just dates?
> >> How are they stored in the DB?
> >They are stored as DATE.
> >
> >> * I don't suppose there's a way to get abstracted content from the
> >> article in the search results? Did someone do some work
> >> integrating mnogosearch at some point?
> >What abstracted content do you need?
> >
> >Mugur
> >
> >>Cheers,
> >>
> >>JP

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