Another modification to the blog coming

Just realized that I'm going to have to change the way single blog entries are linked to.  Since out of the box BlogCFC is really just meant for one blogger.  Right now, the link is of the form blog.cfm/2008/7/29/Thoughts-after-the-0728-Raw - but this is going to cause a problem. What if, once I update the user records to allow everyone to post to their blogs, two people make a post in one day with the same title? "Raw Thoughts" could be a pretty standard title. So I'm going to have to add the category name in there somewhere. I think the obvious choice is to convert the link so it becomes blog.cfm/2-user/2008/7/29/Thoughts-after-the-0728-Raw.

I think it will be as simple as altering the URL parsing code - and then updating the BlogCFC method that creates the link (believe it's blogcfc.makeLink()) to add the category name to the link.

And another idea that I think I will implement this weekend before enabling the blog for all users is "tagging." Well, that's what I'll refer to it as. Basically I'll present the user with various checkboxes where they can choose which tags to associate with the entry. Since it's wrestling, this will be things like "WWE", "TNA" (another wrestling company), "Raw" (the Monday night TV show for WWE), etc. I'll just make them predetermined for simplicity's sake. I'm not sure if I'll use BlogCFC's category system to do this, but I think that may be the way to go - because then delivering RSS feeds based on a particular tag would work without any tweaks. I would just create the categories manually, then do separate addCategory calls for getCategoryByAlias('WWE'), etc. Should be relatively straightforward.

Not sure if rss.cfm can build feeds based on either the union or intersection of multiple categories, but that's something I'd look into at some point as well. Because another future idea is creating the idea of "favorite blogs" - users click Add to Favorites when viewing a user's blog, and then they can subscribe to an RSS feed of just the blogs chosen as favorites. And with the above functionality, favorite blogs where the blog is tagged as WWE and Raw.