[FM Discuss] php challenge... Plugins

[John Rigdon]

I'm much more familiar with other languages than with PHP, but I do hack at 
it on a regular basis and have toyed with Booki for some projects so I have 
a basic vague idea of where we are and where we're going with this.

Having said that I have a LOT of experience in system design from a meta 
standpoint and would love to help where I can here.

Are the discussions regarding Booki held here or somewhere else?  I have not 
been able to find an appropriate forum at the Booki site.

John Rigdon
www.ngohaiti.com


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From: "adam hyde" <adam at flossmanuals.net>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 7:48 AM
To: "fm" <discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net>
Subject: [FM Discuss] php challenge... Plugins

> hi
>
> so...recently I've been working on the new scripts for publishing
> content created in Booki.
>
> Its pretty basic and based on an idea of Dougs to have a script that can
> fetch templated html content from Booki for storing on a local server.
> In this way Booki and Objavi dont store/host published content but
> instead books (talking about templated html versions of booki books) are
> published under any domain you want...
>
> So, after some pondering and discussions with Aco (Doug is away on
> holidays at the moment) the idea has grown from a 'book fetching' script
> to a script that can manage everything we do now at FM...'publishing'
> static html, linking to epubs and pdf in the html, listing books per
> category, remixing, blogging...
>
> im writing it in php with (if possible) no additional libs and no
> database. I want to make it as simple to install and use as possible. So
> far I have stage one working which is the basic script that fetches a
> book from Booki )actually it gets it from Objavi, wraps it up in a
> template and stores it locally).
>
> Eventually I want to extend this as mentioned above but...i want to
> think a little about the structure of the code before plunging into
> it...and this is where I need some help from any keen php-ers out
> there...
>
> I'm going to tackle all the remix stuff etc later (please feel free to
> help!) but focus now solely on the basic fetching script...and to this I
> would like to take things in a slightly new direction...
>
> At the moment FM publishes manuals as static html with a basic template
> wrapped around it. We have no capacity for any interesting methods for
> adding extra functionality to the manuals. By interesting functionality
> I mean:
> * adding comments/forums features
> * generating anchors on headings
> * adding tests/quizs (one of Andys requests)
>
> so instead of building this into Booki/Objavi it might be more
> appropriate to build this into the publishing script I'm working on
> now...this would mean that when you install the script on a server and
> fetch a book you could decide to also include a comment feature, anchors
> etc......these features would be added at publish (fetch) time and added
> to the fetched static content on your server.
>
> So...I want to add these features as plugins and design a simple method
> for creating new plugins to extend the functionality of books...i dont
> know what else could be added but there must be many many other ideas..
>
> so...is there anyone out there that could help me design the basic
> architecture for the plugins? i really dont know the best way to do it
> and would appreciate any help/advice...
>
>
> adam
>
>
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