Re: order on events page

[<blackie@sfcc.net>]

I used the very same lines from the previous function.  They seem to work
with all of my tests.  I hope they continue to do so. :)

On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 02:24:24PM -0400, blackie@sfcc.net wrote:
> > 
> > > > (I assume ENGLISHDIR would change depending on your particular language.)
> > > > 
> > > No. The path to the English events directory is needed because
> > > the list of events is compiled from that directory. Information
> > > is grabbed from a translation, if it exists, and from the English
> > > version otherwise.
> > > 
> > > This is done so that the translations won't be missing events that
> > > haven't been translated into that language. The rationale being it
> > > is better to have something displayed in another language than to
> > > be missing the information altogether.
> > 
> > Does this mean that everyone uses the same /events/index.wml?
> > 
> No. I'll use the News directory as an example since I set it up.
> The list of news items for a given year is created using the
> english directory:
>    @files = grep { /^$match.wml$/ && -f "$eng_dir/$year/$_" } readdir(DIR);
> 
> Then, when creating the list of titles, a translated file is looked for
> first, then a file containing only the translated title and finally
> the english version is used. This way translations can elect to only
> translate those items they have time for, but will not be missing
> a listing for any news item. This is easily done with the following line:
> 
>   open(FILE, "<$year/$_") || open(FILE, "<$year/$trans_title") || open(FILE, "<$eng_dir/$year/$_");
> 
> I don't know how much this applies to the events section since I haven't
> looked at it closely.
> 
> Jay Treacy
> 
> 
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