[Radiant] Comments and Attachments

[Scott Walter]

I don't mean to beat attachments and comments with a dead horse.  These are two features that I need (and most others from the sounds of it).  There really hasn't been a consensus on how they should be done.  So I thought I would re-open the issue to see if we can come to a consensus.  Please critique my designs:


Attachments:  First of all do we need attachments?   What if we had asset tab as a top navigation item in the admin console?  Basically the "Asset Manager" would be a tree hierarchy of all the assets for the website.  The assets would be stored on the file system with some metadata stored in the database.  Then radiant tags would be used to either display links to the assets or to include the assets inline.  With this approach we may not need to actually associate attachments with pages.  Once an asset has been uploaded, it would simply require a radiant tag in a page part to display the asset.

Maybe people would like attachments for pages.  One reason I can think of is for work flow processes.  If someone is creating a page in which they want to add an image, instead of going to the assets tab it would be nice to add the image during the page creation process.   If this is the case then we could have a "specialized" page part that allows the user to add attachments.  In reality the attachments would really do the same thing as if the user uploaded the asset via the assets tab.

Comments: Comments fall into three areas:

1.  Infrastructure--The storage of comments.  Probably a table(s) right off the pages table.  

2.  Presentation--Radiant tags to draw the comment form as well as display comments.  I would not make it a behavior, which in my opinion should be for "one-off" situations.  Since most pages will have comments in a blog you wouldn't want every page to have a "comments" behavior.  Instead there can be core Radiant tags to render comments.  

3.  Admin--Not needed in the first cut of comments.  Probably a plugin to the admin console to admin comments.


John--Since you are the father of the Radiant CMS.  Please let us know how you have envisioned these components.  I am very happy to work on either comments or attachments, but I don't want to go down a path and later find out that another approach will be the official version.


I'm eagerly awaiting everyones input

cheers,

scott

 
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