Re: Questions about categories

* Chris Moffitt <[email protected]> [030707 09:54]:
> Thanks to everyone for putting up with my last set of questions.
> Since people were so helpful, I'm going to ask a couple more.

You're welcome

> The first one is about the category plugin.  It seems to be working
> just fine on my system (win2K with Apache), but my hierarchy is
> displayed like this (thanks to dospath2uri ;) )-
[..SNIP..]
> Any hints on how to get it to display in that way?

I've (hopefully) fixed that in the CVS version :) Feel free the check it
out (or you can do the fix yourself by changing split('/') to
split(os.sep))

> Second question - I noticed on Wari's site that he had a navigation
> scheme like -
> Top Level :: Child :: Another Child
> At the top of his page.  Any hints on how to implement that
> functionality?

You noticed? Hehehe.. That's my super secret plugin, so secret, I'm not
gonna give it to anyone.. :P

Anyway, that plugin is called breadcrumbs, and I'm not really sure if it
works on Windows, I've attached it in this mail. The reason it wasn't
posted at all is because I thought is was crummy (if you pardon the pun
:), and also, it was done in the old pyblosxom way. It could be more
efficient if done properly.

> And one final question.  Has anyone looked at developing a "show more"
> plugin.  If an entry is over X characters then a more link is
> displayed with a link to the full entry?

I wished someone would do that plugin for me :) Again, should not be
difficult to do anyway, at least, that's what I think.

# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 expandtab
"""
Creates Yahoo style navigation
"""
__author__ = "Wari Wahab - wari at wari dot per dot sg"
__version__ = "$Id:$"

SEPERATOR=' :: '

from Pyblosxom import tools
import os, string
class BreadCrumbs:
    def __init__(self, request):
        self._request = request
        self._crumbs = ''

    def __str__(self):
        self.littleCrumbs()
        return str(self._crumbs)

    def littleCrumbs(self):
        conf = self._request.getConfiguration()
        data = self._request.getData()

        path = string.replace(data['root_datadir'], conf['datadir'], '')
        crumblets = path.split(os.sep)
        path_data = []
        crumbs = ''
        for mem in crumblets:
            if mem:
                crumbs += '/%s' % mem
                if crumbs != path:
                    path_data.append('<a href=%s%s>%s</a>' % (conf['base_url'], crumbs, mem))
                else:
                    path_data.append(mem)
        self._crumbs = SEPERATOR.join(path_data)

def cb_prepare(args):
    request = args['request']
    data = request.getData()
    data["breadcrumbs"] = BreadCrumbs(request)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    pass