add author information to feed items

[mdodoo]

Since some blogs have more than one author (i.e. Daily Kos, Slashdot, Boing Boing, etc.), adding information about authors to the items table would allow Gregarius users to distinguish between these different posts. It might also be possible to allow the author information be a hyperlink leading to a page displaying all items from that author, regardless of feed.

[mbonetti]

IIRC Julien has a patch that does just this.

[julien]

Yes, I have such a patch... but as I haven't updated my gregarius installation for the past three weeks, it certainly is outdated. I'll have a look later today to see if I can adapt it to the new OO architecture and post it here.

[julien]

Patch versus revision 649

[julien]

Here's my patch against revision 649. Be warned : it modifies the default template (so as to display the author name) and the database schema (adds a column "author" in the table "item" to store the author name). Works fine on my installation, but I didn't run tests against other installations.

[julien]

Warning: my patch might have some trouble with the rss.config.datedesc config option. I'm looking into it.

[julien]

new version of my patch, which includes correction to bug #68

[julien]

The patch I just attached obsoletes the preceding one. This new version corrects the bug I found with rss.config.datedesc just above and also includes my patch for ticket #68 (as both problems are in fact the same).

[julien]

My final note on this bug for today: my patch just adds the displaying of the author, it doesn't include an hyperlink for a page with all items by the same author.

[julien]

One small remark regarding changeset [651]: there's a small "naming convention" problem in cls/items.php on lines 309 and 312. The $iauthor variable is the only one that doesn't end in "_" in this part of the code.

[mbonetti]

Fixed in [655] (I hope this is correct)