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• Cart (Score:1)

  by jk2addict (4946)

  I've of course have AxKit 1.x taglibs and a small cart demo in Handel. Depending on what needs to happen for an upgrade to AxKit2, I should be able whip up something without much doom and gloom.
  • Re:Cart (Score:2)

    by Matts (1087)

    The simple summary is that you no longer write config directives - you write a plugin. A simple example plugin would be:

    sub hook_xmlresponse {
      my ($self, $input) = @_;
      return OK, $input->transform(XSP => XSLT('/path/to/style1.xsl'));
    }

    This way you control how the transformation happens with perl rather than with config directives. You also have to do caching yourself. The reason being that caching was one of the most complicated parts of the AxKit code, and it didn't always get it right,
• A forum (Score:2)

  by bart (450)

  When you say "blog", does that include comments? Most blogs do allow comments, though the message list is usually flat, not threaded. I'd prefer threads myself.
  
  Furthermore... you can take features as you can see on Perlmonks/Everything as an example. For example: polls.
  
  And a feed system to generate RSS would be nice, too.
  
  • Re:A forum (Score:2)

    by Matts (1087)

    And a pony? ;-)
    • Re:A forum (Score:2)

      by bart (450)

      You must have confused me with [perlmonks.org] somebody [perlmonks.org] else [perlmonks.org].