[Radiant] Pondering comments and logins

[Josh Ferguson]

/Commenting is on the official roadmap/

Is Radiant going to become a blogger CMS like all the rest of them?

Josh

John W. Long wrote:
> Al Evans wrote:
>   
>> It looks fairly easy to add an "Accepts Comments" behavior following the 
>> general design of Oliver Baltzer's Search behavior. This would provide 
>> an "Add Comment" button and associated text field, maybe using AJAX. It 
>> looks like pages aren't meant to be created except by a logged-in user, 
>> and this might be a problem. I'd like to be able to allow someone to 
>> post a comment without making them a full-fledged user. I don't 
>> understand the permissions system very well yet, though.
>>     
>
> Commenting is on the official roadmap, but I'm not sure what to tell you 
> in the meantime. It should be possible to make an "Accepts Comments" 
> behavior like you describe. You just need to call the appropriate 
> methods on the model objects when the form is posted. Matt McCray's 
> mailer behavior might be a good one to look at 
> (http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/wiki/ThirdPartyBehaviors).
>
>   
>> But that brings me to my main point. The login system seems thoroughly 
>> embedded in the structure of the application. However, I'd really prefer 
>> to use OpenID http://openid.net or my own OpenProfile extension of 
>> OpenID http://openprofile.net in place of some or all of it. (I think 
>> OpenID provides about as much authentication as you can get in a web 
>> app, and it's nice for the users.)
>>     
>
> I'm not very familiar with openid, but I think you could write a plugin 
>   fairly easily. Just require the WelcomeController and override the 
> login and logout methods to do what you need.
>
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