[pmwiki-users] Blog proposal

[Patrick R. Michaud]

Okay, here's my current thinking on adding blog support to PmWiki.
Feel free to make any suggestions or improvements (especially for
page names, markup, or syntax).

* Blogging support will be turned off by default, but enabled
  by either $EnableBlogging=1; or include_once('scripts/blog.php');

* A blog is simply a WikiTrail, along with some special markups
  to post, organize, and display blog entries.

* Each group can have a default blog trail page; PmWiki's default
  setting is "Group.BlogTrail".  (Other candidates:  Group.Blog,
  Group.BlogList, Group.BlogIndex, Group.ArticleList, others?)
  The WikiAdministrator can set $BlogTrailFmt to be some other
  default (e.g., a site-wide index, or blog trails organized by
  month or year).

* Posting a blog entry is as simple as adding (:blog:) to the markup
  of any page.  When a page containing (:blog:) is saved, that page
  is automatically added to the blog trail page if it's not already
  listed.  (The author must have write permissions to the blog trail
  page.)

* An author can use (:blog OtherBlogTrail:) to post the current page
  to blog trails other than the default.

* When displayed, a page containing a (:blog:) directive
  automatically receives a blog header and footer, defined 
  either within the blog trail page or by Site.BlogTemplate.

* A special-purpose (:bloglist:) directive can be used to display
  blog entries in a variety of formats.  It's actually the same
  as (:pagelist:) but has some default settings useful for blogs.

* We may have a special ?action=newblog that can be used to 
  automatically drop an author into an editor with the pagename 
  constructed from the current date, a serial number, or a
  combination of the two (configurable).

Comments, questions?

Pm