[pmwiki-users] ForumX (was Re: {Spam?} Re: pagelist pagination)

[Hans]

Sunday, May 13, 2007, 10:10:33 AM, Kathryn Andersen wrote:

> Well, since (:include...:) is core, I'd be inclined towards it.
> What advantage does FeralFormattedEntry have over using include?
> I'm not really clear on the differences.

FFE is looking more compact, so it may be more edit friendly.

With FFE markup one can specify a unique display template per post.
I like this as it gives the possibility of using a different display
template for the first post than for all the others.
For a forum this is actually not really important, but when making the
forum into a blogging tool it is very important.

I have not explored an alternative when using the (:include ...:)
markup for this. It may simply be necessary to have a separate
(:include ..:) for the first (blog) post, and use pagelist with
a special fmt=include for the comment posts.

Should be doable, but changes things  a little, especially for the
breakpage feature and the count.

I know I can wrap ForumX up with using FFE, as I did for FoxForum.


  ~Hans