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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: jeffhare[/u][p]Hello,

I'm a recovering phpNuke admin  and will be moving all my domain portals to GL once I know the GL code in more depth.

I *very* much appreciate all the hard work you guys are doing.  GL is a fine effort and immensly easier to work with.

From an upgrade standpoint, I've had minor difficulties in upgrading and keeping my test portal current with the latest releases due to two reasons:

1) Each plugin has various bits installed in different areas of the server hierarchy, and then some injected functions in GL supplied files.

2) Some Plugins seem to extend existing GL tables, rather than staying entirely within their own tables.  Is this simply an exception that breaks the rules?

The plugin developer's guide is a little old and I understand that it's purely a resource issue preventing the update.  I know how that is!

[b]The real question here is:[/b]

Have you guys recently considered any techniques for organizing the plugins in such a way that the code for each plugin can reside in a single dir hierarchy?

Possibly with an entry point file & function that handles "registering" the hooks that they implement, via the plugin admin page,  the plugin admin function can discover the plugins installed the hierarchy.

This way, when we get a new version of GL core, we can overlay the new code and not have to worry about merging core files with plugin-specific modifications.

Also, (sorry to drag on), I currently use the the www.Aeonserv.com system to develop a Geeklog site prior to deploying.  The HTMLArea (WYSIWYG) widget is one that many (but not all) find quite useful.  It would be great to have a single core function that could be called throughout GL to produce/return multi-line TEXTAREAs. This might make it easy for developers install WYSIWYG plugin editors without diddling the GL Core code.

Anyway, thanks a ton for all your hard work on this system.

-Jeff Hare[/p][/QUOTE]

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