[Radiant] Commentable and Spam

[Sean Cribbs]

Thanks for your thoughts, John.  I guess a major reason why I did it that
way -- besides expediency -- is that I think all content, whether created by
a logged-in user, should be editable/removable via the admin interface.  I
also didn't want to spend a lot of time increasing the complexity of the
admin interface, considering it is so clean and elegant as it is.  In some
ways, the discussion of page metadata as page-parts influenced this
decision.

The method I used could be used to model any type of structured, textual
data, of course.  That is, separating the structural pieces (fields) into
page-parts. "Page as Hash", just as DHH considers DBMS's to be Hashes.

However, the code would be a lot cleaner if there were another model
instead.  Maybe this could be done in a future iteration.  I really love the
way Radiant works, looks, and feels and hope to continue working on
behaviors and such for a while!

Sean Cribbs
seancribbs.com

On 9/6/06, John W. Long <ng at johnwlong.com> wrote:
>
> Sean Cribbs wrote:
> > I also wanted to probe John about the subject of where comments are
> stored.
> > I know there had been previous discussions of how to implement comments
> on
> > the list, and they largely shaped my chosen implementation.  Do you
> > think it
> > would still be relevant to have a separate Comments model with its own
> > admin-UI, or is the stored-as-pages method ok? (i.e. is the method I'm
> > using
> > good enough to fulfill the goal of "Radiant has comments")
>
> Sean, your method is pretty creative considering the fact that Radiant
> doesn't presently give you a way to add stuff the admin interface. I
> still favor making comments a separate model object though, and here's
> why: Pages have URLs layouts, etc... Comments do not have their own URL
> (nor do then need a layout). Comments are data that is associated with
> pages, therefore they should not be implemented as pages themselves.
>
> Your method is interesting though, and would prove very useful in
> certain circumstances.
>
> --
> John Long
> http://wiseheartdesign.com
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