[bbDev] Pingbacks and the posts table

[Aditya Naik]

any thoughts on post meta... wouldnt give us more flexbility on customizing
posts and hacking it?

On 7/19/07, Michael D Adams <mikea at turbonet.com> wrote:
>
> So I'm working on adding pingback functionality (both ways) to
> bbPress and am running into a problem: how to store incoming pingbacks.
>
> WP stores pings in the comments table (sensibly) where there are
> fields for the pinging page title and url (comment_author and
> comment_author_url).
>
> The bbPress posts table doesn't have any such fields.  It seems we'd
> need to add three fields to the posts table to make it work without a
> bunch of ugly hacks:
>
> post_author:  the page title
> post_external_url (or something): the page url
> post_type (enum or varchar): post, ping
>
> While we're at it, it *might* be possible to get rid of the
> post_position column which is almost completely redundant with
> post_time as far as I can tell.  We use it for:
>
> 1. Grabbing first posts.  We can probably write a pretty efficient
> query to do that without it.
> 2. Some pagination stuff.  This is the sticky point.  I'm not sure we
> can get around it easily, and if there's not a clever solution,
> there's no point in axing it.
>
> Any thoughts on either or both issues?
>
> Michael
> _______________________________________________
> bbDev mailing list
> bbDev at lists.bbpress.org
> http://lists.bbpress.org/mailman/listinfo/bbdev
>



-- 
drop by at http://www.adityanaik.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/bbdev/attachments/20070719/c99a2957/attachment.htm