I agree with those that think that "Flat View" is the best, but "Nested"
and "Threaded" should be included if just to save us from the constant
barrage of requests for those types of views. One of the reasons I chose
phpWS was because I had that option -- even though I never wanted to use
it. Make Flat View the default, and we won't have to worry so much
about the performance hits the other methods will generate.
I also support Shaun's suggestion of merging the Comments and forum modules.
I'd started doing such a thing early last year before I got sidetracked
with making the other changes to phpwsbb. I might still have the forked
code around somewhere. If you like, I can look for it tonight. I'll
summarize what it did so you can decide if that's the direction you
wanted to go.
phpwsbb would have an extra function like Comment's
listCurrentComments(). Depending on the state of a config switch, the
output shown would be either a summary box or a full thread display. If
no topic has been created yet for this module item, the summary box
would display. When you click the "leave a post" link, phpwsbb will
create the topic using the module name, item id, and title as parameters
which are also stored in mod_phpwsbb_threads. The reason for this is
that when you view the topic through the forum, a link to the parent
page can be presented to the user.
I think that I never finished it because there was a question of how to
decide which forum to create the topic in. The options were to either
have all topics land in a default "Comments" forum, or to have the
author pick a forum while editing the article.
-Eloi-
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