- Fixed bug: the module now checks only against other *stories* (instead of nodes) with the same title.

- Addition: added a "promote" field to the node table, which
  makes "promoting nodes" to the main page possible.  Stories
  and reviews could be promoted by default, but - on accasion
  a good book entry could be manually promoted too.  Thus all
  existing content types can be shown on the main page, not
  just stories.

  Requires a SQL update, see 2.00-to-x.xx.sql!

- Addition: implemented "auto-post new submissions" feature
  to disable or by-pass the moderation queue in addition to
  "moderate new submissions".

  TODO: admin moderation versus registered user moderation.

- Addition: added category and topic support to page.module.

- Addition: made it so that comments can be enabled/disabled on
  a node per node basis, rather then on a category per category
  basis.  The default settings for each individual category can
  be changed though.

  Example: it can be setup so that - by default - all stories
  posted to the category "article" will have comments enabled
  but stories submitted to "announcement" not.

  Different configuration schemes can easily be added later.

  Requires a SQL update, see 2.00-to-x.xx.sql/database.mysql.

- Addition: made submit.php only use categories that users can
  actually submit new content to.

Another big update so please read this carefully because there is important information hidden in it.

Made it so that we can disable/enable comments on a category by category basis. In order to accomplish this I had to make a few (*temporary*) changes.

I moved all comment code from the "module level" (eg. story.module) to the "node level".  It was nothing but the logical next step in nodifying drupal.  This enables us to add comments to all existing content types including book entries.  But also for book entries, this to can be toggled on and off. :-)

Moreover module writers don't have to worry about the complex comment logic: it is "abstracted" away.  This implies that story.module got smaller, faster and easier to comprehend. :-)

In order to accomplish this, I had to update ALL THEMES, which I did - and on my way I updated Goofy, Oranzh and UnConeD - with the previous changes.  All themes are up-to-date now!  I also had to remove the [ reply to this story ] links, and temporally re-introcuded the "Add comment" button in the "Comment control".  Tempora lly that is, UnConeD. ;)

I plan to upgrade drop.org either tommorow or wednesday so test away if you have some time to kill. ;)

Oh, I also fixed a few bugs and made various small improvements.

- a few changes which might help overcome Jeroen's redeclartion problem
  (or might not)

Large commit, read it carefully, and make the required changes to
your theme:

- corrected some missing translations in story.module.  Oops!
- grealty simplified the "moderation threshold mechanism"(tm) so
  that module writers don't have to worry about this.  As a result
  story.module and book.module became a bit smaller and easier to
  grasp.
- greatly simplified new "category" and "topic" code which is soon
  going to replace the "section" code.  Needs more work though so
  hang on thight.
- includes/section.inc and modules/section.module are replaced by
  includes/structure.module and modules/structure.module.
- beautified example.theme a bit without adding HTML complexity:
  it is a good example but still useful as a theme
- made theme example use "categories" and "topics"
    --> TAKE A LOOK AT IT AND UPDATE YOUR THEME
- made theme marvin use "categories" and "topics"
    --> TAKE A LOOK AT IT AND UPDATE YOUR THEME
- added 2 new "story listings" to administrator interface of
  story.module to verify story integrity.
- optimized comment table a bit (work in progress)

- improved submit.php:
  it now uses the new category code, incl content bindings.
  You can setup different "categories" which map on a content
  type.  Example:
    review   -> review.module
    article  -> story.module
    column   -> story.module
    announc. -> story.module
    addons   -> file.module
    themes   -> file.module
- "generalised" story.module and book.module's output.
- fixed bug in includes/timer.inc
- fixed glitch in theme example.theme: it said "$how by" but
  the variable $how has never been declared.
- added "drupal development settings" to display some timings
- more work on the categories/topics -> does NOT work yet

Last nights updates (under construction):
  - added _type() hook so each module can return the content types he/she
    implements

- fixed a small SQL bug in page.module
- slightly improved story.module, node.module and book.module
- made the "default theme" a setting from the setting page
- polished a bit on the export function: we can now export the
  book or parts thereof through the following url:

    1.  http://drop.org/export/book/
          (full book)
    2.  http://drop.org/export/book/nid
          (where nid is the node id to start with)

  The export routine demonstrates how it can be done yet the
  output is too basic and can only improve over time.

- improved administrator interface of account, node, story and book
  by (1) adding a few extra features to "easify" navigation and (b)
  to start using "status messages" as once suggested on the mailing
  list by Jeroen

- fixed bug in common.inc: throttle()
- streamlined method invocation in node.inc
- added node_status() function to modules
- added NEW (mostly static) page module
- added NEW settings module

A lot of small changes (search-n-replace) make a big commit:

  - fixed update bug in book.module
  - provide a log message when both adding and updating book pages
  - all configurable variables are now accessed through "variable_get()":
  - rewrote watchdog and submission throttle and removed watchdog.inc
  - improved robustness of sections.inc
  - imporved story.module
  - updated ./database/database.sql

- a bunch of various updates

- various smaller improvements

Commiting my work of last Sunday:

 - removed ban.inc and ban.module and integrated it in account.module
   under the name "access control" --> the ban code was not really up
   to standard so this has now been dealt with.  This refactoring and
   reintegration cuts down the code size with 100 lines too.  :-)
   (The ban.module code was really old and it showed.)

 - added node.module and made the other modules reuse some of this
   code --> cut down the code size of modules by at least 100 lines
   and adds stability.

 - added a status() function to admin.php to display a conform status
   message where appropriate.  See admin.php for usage.

 - removed $theme->control() and made comments.inc handle this itself
   wrapped in a $theme->box().  No need to clutter the themes with
   such complexity --> updated all themes already. :-)

 - some small visual changes to some administration pages to be more
   consistent across different modules.

- simplified some of the node stuff:
    stories can no longer be scheduled -> this functionality will be made
    generic for all nodes

- visual improvements to example.theme, simplified HMTL code (- 20
  lines)
- made node.inc more robust: it should roll-back when something goes
  fubar and it should work in subdirectories

- fixed issue depricated call-by-reference issues
- fixed small visual glitch in includes/function.inc
- changed SQL tables around a bit to be more consistent
  (result: small changes to a lot of different files)
- improved robustness of includes/node.inc
- improved output of cron.module
- improved output of node.php

- streamlined the book and story module

Flushing my backlog (in case Natrak wants to make more changes):

 - tidied up some of the code
 - fixed a small problems

- small improvements as well as 2 bugfixes

- large commit of everything else that has been queued in my backlog:
  it's not 100% stable yet

- added nodified story module: story extends node
- removed includes/story.inc as we no longer need it: story.module
  is *really* modular now.

- fixed slash-problem reported by Jared

- applied David Norman's patch to turn all <?'s into fully qualified
  <?php's.

A rather large and important update:

revised most of the SQL queries and tried to make drupal as secure as possible (while trying to avoid redundant/duplicate checks).  For drupal's sake, try to screw something up.  See the mail about PHPNuke being hacked appr. 6 days ago.  The one who finds a problem is rewarded a beer (and I'm willing to ship it to Norway if required).  I beg you to be evil.  Try dumping a table a la "http://localhost/index.php?date=77778;DROP TABLE users" or something. ;)

code revision:
 - shortened and improved the code

- added fine-grained user permission system which allows us to give
  certain users access to specific administration sections only.
    Ex. a FAQ maintainer can only edit the FAQ, and members of an
        "editorial board" can only edit comments, diaries and
         stories, ..
- code review => rewrote include/user.inc which is much easier now
- fixed 4 small bugs

- improved layout story.module
- fixed bug in translation

- a 2nd batch of various updates

- added a "search framework" which allows for easy searching
  (to be continued)
- tidyied up some existing code

- added new feature for evaluating purpose: user rating (mojo, karma)!
- removed tabs from Jeroen's theme

- documentation updates contributed by Michael O'Henly <michael@tenzo.com>
  and myself

- fixed 2 small bugs (reported by martin@abol.com)

I know, I know, it is getting nasty lately but I have another large commit after nothing but code.

This time I redid the "category"-stuff.  Categories - from now on called sections - are now maintained from the admin pages, can have their own post, dump and timout thresholds as discussed earlier (some weeks ago).  By tomorrow evening users will be able to enable or disable section as well - i.e. to customize the content of drop.org.

- 3 small bugfixes

- updated/improved discussion engine: it needs additional fine-tuning
  though but I think this is stable enough for public consumption and
  real-life testing.
   ==> a first big step towards a flexible comment engine.

IMPORTANT:
  - Required theme updatins:

    UnConeD: check your $theme->controls() as I added a very, very
             dummy implementation

  - Required database updates:

    alter table users modify mode tinyint(1) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL;
    alter table comments change sid lid int(6) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL;
    alter table comments add link varchar(16) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL;
    update comments set link = 'story';

- created 2 new functions; check_textfield() and check_textarea() and
  integrated them were appropriate.  It works better and the code is
  more readable then it used to be:
    (see http://drop.org/discussion.php?id=44&pid=0#0)

- story authors can no longer moderate their own stories
    (requested by Natrak)

- fix inie-winnie small detail in theme marvin