Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:05 AM.
system.verbs.builtins.radio.weblog.newCategory
on newCategory (name, description="", flRenderHtml=false, language="en-us", flNotifyWeblogsCom=true) {
<<Changes
<<2/13/02; 12:08:46 PM by JES
<<Create a #prefs.txt file with the appropriate #categoryName directive in the category folder.
<<1/28/02; 6:33:14 PM by JES
<<Convert the filename to a 7-bit (non-accented) string.
<<1/21/02; 9:28:11 AM by DW
<<New optional param, flNotifyWeblogsCom.
<<1/20/02; 2:14:16 PM by DW
<<New optional language category.
<<1/14/02; 7:54:17 PM by JES
<<On MacOS, truncate the filename if it's longer than 31 characters.
<<12/22/01; 4:15:42 AM by JES
<<Init adrcategory^.htmlUrl to the empty string. Initialize adrcategory^.dateLastUpload to date (0).
<<12/6/01; 7:24:14 PM by JES
<<New optional parameter, flRenderHtml, sets whether or not this category will be rendered as HTML files.
<<1/23/01; 2:42:43 PM by DW
<<Don't allow file and URL delimiters in the file name for the category.
<<1/11/01; 6:28:33 PM by PBS
<<Created.
local (adrdata = radio.weblog.init ());
local (adrCategory = @adrdata^.categories.[name]);
new (tableType, adrCategory);
adrCategory^.description = description;
adrCategory^.displayName = name;
adrCategory^.language = language;
adrCategory^.flNotifyWeblogsCom = flNotifyWeblogsCom;
local (fname = name);
local (i, ct = sizeOf (fname));
<<bundle //old code
<<fname = string.replaceall (fname, "/", " ")
<<fname = string.replaceall (fname, ":", " ")
<<fname = string.replaceall (fname, "\\", " ")
<<fname = string.innerCaseName (fname)
fname = radio.string.convertTo7Bit (fname);
for i = 1 to ct { //convert non-alpha-numeric characters to spaces
if not string.isAlpha (fname[i]) {
if not string.isNumeric (fname[i]) {
fname[i] = ' '}}};
fname = string.innerCaseName (fname);
if system.environment.isMac { //truncate to 31 chars
if sizeOf (fname) > 31 {
fname = string.mid (fname, 1, 31)}};
adrCategory^.fileName = fname;
adrCategory^.flDirty = false;
adrCategory^.flRenderHtml = flRenderHtml;
adrCategory^.htmlUrl = "";
adrCategory^.dateLastUpload = date (0);
wp.newTextObject ("", @adrCategory^.rss);
adrCategory^.rssUrl = "";
adrCategory^.storyList = {};
bundle { //write out the #prefs.txt file
local (f = radio.weblog.file.getCategoryFolder (name, adrdata) + "#prefs.txt");
local (s = "#categoryName \"" + string.replaceAll (name, "\"", "\\\"") + "\"");
file.sureFilePath (f);
file.writeTextFile (f, s)};
return (true)}
This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.