I looked at the source once and tried to figure it out. Mostly it looks like they keep it all in a catalog (duh) and set a cookie as to your last visit. When login and go to the 'What's New' page they check the cookie, compare it against the items recently added and show you the list. I guess it would only require the site catalog and the users logging in. They might also write the 'last visit' into the ZODB. It is also something I have wanted to do for awhile but have not really built that many user based sites. Let me know what you come up with or if you want further description. I am also going to try (someday) to build a simple version into ZUBB (as you probably are going to into Squishdot). Hope it helps... J
From: Chris Withers <chrisw@nipltd.com> Organization: New Information Paradigms Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 18:18:39 +0100 To: Chris McDonough <chrism@digicool.com> Cc: jatwood@bwanazulia.com, zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Broken 'What's New' on Zope.org?
Chris McDonough wrote:
This is a longstanding bug.
Send complaints to zope-web@zope.org
If anyone fixes it, please let us all know...
I'm looking for just the same functionality for a site here adn I was hoping to do a view_source for the answer :-S
cheers,
Chris