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Re: Articles Idea: Category-Based Permission Model
I see three options: * Articles remain independent, but as long as Vanilla is installed a new article automatically comes with a related discussion e.g. in the category the article is published in. I have seen this apporach on reputable news websites. * Using the embedded comments feature of Vanilla for articles. * Your… -
Re: Articles Idea: Category-Based Permission Model
That actually sounds like a good idea. The QnA plugin already does that itself, so just adding an option into this proposed rewrite of Articles should do the job. Having the admin going into each category settings page and clicking the check boxes to "convert" them to article categories does sound tedious, but it sounds… -
Re: Articles Idea: Category-Based Permission Model
I'm currently writing up a conceptualization document to see how Articles could be rewritten to integrate better with Vanilla. Here's a question about the controller events. A lot of plugins hook into events using a specific controller name like DiscussionController_EventName_Handler($Sender). If I were to create a new… -
Re: Articles Idea: Category-Based Permission Model
Setting the $this->ClassName property in a new controller does the trick and lets plugins that hook into events in the DiscussionController do their job. Thanks, @hgtonight! Those are all solid ideas for how the discussion and article counts could be handled. I'll look into it. I've been trying to make use of the built-in…
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