Re: story save plugins

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:31, Joe Stewart wrote:
> I've been working to change the text modifiers ( plaintext, exttrans) into
> a general plugin system that could easily support wiki text, etc.

Good idea.

> My thoughts are to provide a plugin script in the module/story directory
> instead of incorporating it in the Story class.  I'm not set on either
> yet.  The plugins would be in a subdirectory much as blocktypes.

OK, so what form does the data take in the database, though?  If it's
entered as wiki does it stay as wiki?  

> There exists the ability to have the same ability for display time plugins
> too.  Where the text would be as submitted but modified for display.
> Should these plugins be in the same directory and designated some other
> way?

Maybe different directory.  Is there where we could do "smart links"?  I
mean like if a story mentions a user, the plugin would insert the link
to his story page?

> Care has to be made if these are installed in a web accessible directory
> that they will be safe if called directly.  Phorum had a security flaw in
> this regard.

What about an OO approach?  We could have StoryRenderer classes or
something, and each plugin could extend one of those.  executing a class
file wouldn't have any security problems because it just declares the
class.

> Joe
> 
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