Re-implement Group support for Blogs

[jtilson]

This was stripped out in the current SVN version of the blogs plugin. Just need to add it back in.

[cash]

I agree that this needs to be done. I've been discussing a better way to handle routing with Brett and Evan. That influences the routing portion of the page handler. Basically, should the url be like it is in 1.7: pg/blog/owner/group:<guid> (which is an invalid url) or can we do something like pg/blog/group/owner/<guid>

[jtilson]

It looks like in the trunk code there's a forwarder function that converts the old style, pg/blog/group:xx into pg/blog/owner/xx

Do we really need to add 'group' into the url? Whether its a group vs. a user doesn't make alot of different in displaying list of items, does it? Most of the group enabled plugins I've coded just handled the difference when needing to display a different header or different set of breadcrumbs, but I'm hardly the authority on page handlers!

I do think though, that there is a need for some consistent way of handling this stuff.

[cash]

1. We want to create a consistent scheme for urls across the core plugins.

2. We need to decide how we want to handle group urls for the core plugins. Current candidates:
   • pg/blog/group/owner/<guid>
   • pg/blog/owner/group:<guid>
   • pg/blog/owner/<guid> (requires user's blogs to use guid rather than username)

The key issue is that users tend to be identified by username in URLs and groups by GUIDs. We either need to add 'group' somewhere in the URL to identify it as such or change over to using GUIDs. Users do not like seeing pg/blog/owner/5758475854

[jtilson]

Gotcha Cash.. I was thinking a little 2D there. I definitely agree that users don't want to see their guids slapped across every URL. With that argument, and the fact that group:guid makes for an invalid URL the, only option is to use pg/blog/group/owner/guid out of those candidates.

That would definitely shake up the current page handler. It's expecting an action (or friends), then username.

[cash]

redid the page handler for blogs and added group blogs back in