teasers
Generalizing node context
Been sitting on this idea for a while: curious to see what people think.
In a nutshell, the idea is to combine and generalize the various flags for a node that are available in node.tpl.php, and open them up to modules.
For example, instead of the $is_front, $page, $sticky, and $teaser booleans, you'd have an array with entries present if the flag is true. Something like this, for example:
$context = array(
'teaser' => array(),
'sticky' => array(),
'page' => array(),
);Core would take care of shoving those keys in; other modules would given a chance to add their own to a node.
That's the plan. Here's why I think it's cool:
Developing CCK teasers the right way
Howdy,
looks like one of the most wanted features of Conent Construction Kit (CCK) are teasers (short presentation text of nodes with eventually a picture, showing on the front page).
Urging this feature as many others for couple of my websites, I digged Drupal.org a bit looking for a solution. Unfortunately, teaser functionality seems still on it's first steps and many different approaches can be found (i write below the interesting Drupal.org nodes i found).
QUESTION: i would be interested in hiring / co-sponsoring a programmer to develop teaser functionality for CCK. Can any expert Drupal coder give a hint on what approach is more reliable/correct/better, so to take the right path and spend well any effort?
