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>> On the new Software Catalog er..."Catalogue" page, how does
>> one edit an existing entry? There is no contact email to
>> do so. While I know I can just bug Dave on this list, the
>> public should be told an email address.
> Most people will simply email webmaster@ no? We don't list a contact
> address on any other forms on the site that I can see.
I think there should be an email on all the form pages, or at the
last on a clearly marked contact page.
>> I messed up entering "Spree", it should be under Applications
>> and has an open source, not a commercial license.
> Fixed.
Thanks!
>> Also, it might be nice if the "Procedural Languages" section
>> mentioned that the builtin languages that are already available,
>> lest people stumble across this page and not be aware that
>> C, plpgsql, perl, python, and tcl are all available in core.
> There's no code for including additional text on each category at
> present. We can either add that (noting that the admin interface for
> categories is a highly advanced SQL based one) - patches welcome - or
> add those languages to the list with a note saying they're in the core
> product. Or consider it a non-issue.
I'll take "Patches" for $100, Alex.
Index: portal/tools/add_products_blurb.sql
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- --- portal/tools/add_products_blurb.sql (revision 0)
+++ portal/tools/add_products_blurb.sql (revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+BEGIN;
+
+ALTER TABLE product_categories ADD blurb TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '';
+
+UPDATE product_categories SET blurb =
+$$Note: Postgres has four languages that are part of the core distribution:
+<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/plpgsql.html">PL/pgSQL</a>,
+<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/pltcl.html">PL/Tcl</a>,
+<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/plperl.html">PL/Perl</a>,
+and
+<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/plpython.html">PL/Python</a>.
+$$
+WHERE name = 'Procedural languages';
+
+COMMIT;
Index: portal/system/page/products.php
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- --- portal/system/page/products.php (revision 2127)
+++ portal/system/page/products.php (working copy)
@@ -13,15 +13,17 @@ throw new Exception(gettext('Category ID not specified')); }
- - $rs = $this->pg_query_params('SELECT name AS category FROM product_categories WHERE id=$1',
array(intval($_GET['id'])));
+ $rs = $this->pg_query_params('SELECT name AS cateogory, blurb FROM product_categories WHERE id=$1',
array(intval($_GET['id']))); if (pg_num_rows($rs) == 0) { header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not found');
thrownew Exception (gettext('The specified category does not exist')); }
- - $category = pg_fetch_result($rs, 0, 0);
+ $category = pg_fetch_result($rs, 0, 0);
+ $blurb = pg_fetch_result($rs, 0, 1); $this->tpl->setVariable('category_title', $category);
$this->tpl->setVariable('category_header',$category);
+ $this->tpl->setVariable('category_blurb', $blurb);
// Products $rs = $this->pg_query_params(
Index: portal/template/download/products.html
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- --- portal/template/download/products.html (revision 2127)
+++ portal/template/download/products.html (working copy)
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<h1>Software Catalogue - {category_header}</h1>
- -<p>{product_count} product(s) were found in this category.</p>
+<p>{product_count} product(s) were found in this category. {category_blurb}</p>
<!-- BEGIN product-loop -->
- --
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