Re: [leafnode-list] Web administration - leafwa

[Andy Piper <andy.piper@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 2002.10.06 23:50 Matthias Andree wrote:
The source code can :-) Seriously, what are your requirements
to the newsq output and why was it a pain?
Well, I first got into the business of fixing leafwa back in 
July, when I upgraded from leafnode 1.9.something-old-like-18 to 
1.9.24 and found that the output from newsq had changed very 
slightly. newsq.php in leafwa parses the command-line output of 
newsq, and some of the fields had become aligned differently or 
something. That was a trivial fix.

When I moved up to 1.9.27 I found that a banner line was added 
and it reports when the queue is empty, so newsq.php had to 
change to handle that. This was less trivial due to the way the 
response stack was used internally.

Basically, for leafwa to work managing the news queue in its 
current form, it relies heavily on the exact output of the newsq 
program, so it would be nice if the layout of that ouput was the 
same in 1.9.x and 2.x. I've not moved to 2.x myself yet, so I 
don't know if there are other issues.

Building anything like this is always going to depend on the 
development of the program(s) the front-end is using. I guess in 
many ways it would be nicer to build PHP classes which 
interacted with leafnode's data files directly, and dig around 
in the spool directory. That was not the way leafwa was built in 
the first place, and I only got into this to fix my own copy :-) 
I wasn't worried too much about the method of obtaining the 
underlying information.

AFAICT leafwa was really aimed at leafnode 2.x in the first 
place, since it includes local groups management (for example). 
I may be attempting to fit it onto my 1.9.27 install for no good 
reason other than the fact that *I* would like that to work. 
Attempting to maintain it for two different versions of leafnode 
may be cumbersome; perhaps I should move to 2.x, and long-term I 
will, but I'd like to work with something solid to start with :-)

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