Friday, August 05, 2005

Quick Request

Could you create an “Idle Blognomic Members” group?  If we have EE track active/inactive for us, we can automatically generate the active players/idle players list and quorum rather than manually maintaining it.

Comments

75th Trombone:

05-08-2005 09:11:13 UTC

Done.

Note that I had to create a second account for myself to make this work; my username is nomicsft, and my screen name is Seventy-Fifth Trombone, spelled out.

Good luck auto-generating that list, though.  I think I’ll have to do a bit more backend hacking to let you edit the Member Profile Templates.  EE doesn’t let you get at member info very easily.

Plorkyeran:

05-08-2005 09:22:53 UTC

Yeah, it doesn’t appear to have any built in way to access the member list from the templating engine, but at the same time, it doesn’t seem to have any limitations on php embedded in them, so at worst I can just horribly violate the seperation of layers and manually query it.

Seventy-Fifth Trombone:

05-08-2005 10:08:50 UTC

Yeah, there’s actually an {exp:query} tag you can use to get at the DB abstraction layer.

It’s meant for folks who don’t have access to PHP templates.  I’m actually taking a breathtakingly horrible risk in letting all the BlogNomic admins have access to PHP, but the actual game has gotten along without any admins nuking every post, so I reckon I’ll be okay.  8)

Plorkyeran:

05-08-2005 18:04:51 UTC

Considering that currently every admin has the ability to permenantly delete the blog, I don’t see php as any real increase in risk.

Seventy-Fifth Trombone:

05-08-2005 18:14:31 UTC

It is for me—- with PHP enabled, every admin has the ability to permanently delete my blog.  ;)