I've gotta say this about scoop, while it's complexity is too intense
for the average user, it's simply a boon to us Perl programmers. Kudos
to you folks for this swiss army knife. :)
I have a couple of subtle issues that I need help with. Let me know if
these are off topic for the help list.
1) I set my site control variable "time_zone" to PST8PDT. While this is
a standard time zone setting, it seems to throw scoop back to displaying
a GMT time as a PST time. Setting the time_zone to PST has given me the
correct behavior but will this preserve across DST?
2) It appears the comment_controls box controls the display of
two lines grouped as one. One line tells how many comments are
in the thread, the name of the story, and adds a "post a comment"
link. Another line is a bunch of option boxes for display mode,
view mode, sort, and rating.
I've been looking at the comment_controls box for any sign of how it
decides what order one sees the lines in. The page template has:
|STORY|
|BOX,comment_controls|
|CONTENT|
|BOX,comment_controls|
but the comment_controls box doesn't seem to remember if it's been
called in the same page before. Worse, I see stuff like this:
$template =~ s/CELLSPACING=0>/CELLSPACING=0 ALIGN="center">/;
but the $template variable has never been defined. This leads me
to believe that the comment_controls box isn't the entire picture.
How does this really work?
Thanks in advance. :)
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Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave at jetcafe.org
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