Zovirl Industries

This plugin helps you use a consistent permanent link format by generating permanent links for you. It does this by exporting two variables, $permalink::story and $permalink::category, which contain the permanent link for the current story and category, respectively. It also provides a function permalink::get_link() which can be used by other plugins when they wish to get a permanent link for a file.

I also have some patches for blosxom.cgi and some other plugins that make them use permalink:

• blosxom: patch
• absolute plugin: patch
• breadcrumbs plugin: patch

Download permalink 0.0.1

Documentation is available here.

I updated permalink to work with metadate 0.0.3. This lets the absolute plugin look up permalinks outside the current directory.

Download permalink 0.0.2

Documentation is available here.

I updated metadate to parse metadates contained in stories. I had to do this because entries_cache wasn’t providing metadates for stories outside the current directory, but the permalink plugin needs those.

Download metadate 0.0.3 Be sure to rename it to “metadate”

Documentation is available here.

Well, the last version of fullcategory had a bug which broke permalinks. Yes, this plugin was supposed to fix a bug but instead contained a bug…haha. Thanks to Gary Gale for finding the problem. Anyway, here is the new version.

Download fullcategory 0.0.2

Documentation is available here.

By default, blosxom will return results for partial category name matches. For example, if “telephone” is a category, these would all return posts about telephones:

• http://example.com/telephone
• http://example.com/telepho
• http://example.com/tele

(If “television” was also a category, that last example would include posts from both the television & telephone categories)

This behavior gets in the way of Fletcher’s emptymessage plugin, so I wrote the fullcatgory plugin. Fullcategory changes Blosxom so only full category names will give results. This lets the emptymessage plugin do its thing. I’m pretty sure that with both emptymessage and fullcategory installed, I will be able to run an automatic link checker over my site and find dead (404) links, where before some links went to empty blosxom pages.

Download fullcategory 0.0.1

Documentation is available here.