Adding a New Plugin Using the NanoBlogger Framework

Discussing how to add a copyright notice at each page automatically on the NanoBlogger mailing list, here are the two propositions i can think of.

It can be done by adding directly the copyright notice in the desired template files (i.e. templates/main_index.htm, etc.):

1. Either writing it in the corresponding files…

   $ diff -u templates/main_index.htm templates/main_index.htm.hardwritten
   --- templates/main_index.htm Wed Jul 6 14:49:05 2005
   +++ templates/main_index.htm.hardwritten Mon Aug 8 13:12:05 2005
   @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
   $NB_Entries
   </div>
   
   +<div class="side">
   +All content herein © 2006, Your Company, Inc. All right reserved.
   +</div>
   +
   <div id="menu">
   $NB_PageLinks
   </div>
   

2. Or writing a little plugin to do that… (based on the plugins/fortune.sh code)

   # cat << EOF > ${NB_INST_PATH}/plugins/copyright.sh
   # NanoBlogger Copyright plugin.
   
   # sample code for templates, based off default stylesheet
   #
   # <div class="side">
   # $NB_Copyright
   # </div>
   
   PLUGIN_OUTFILE="$BLOG_DIR/$PARTS_DIR/copyright.$NB_FILETYPE"
   
   nb_msg "generating copyright ..."
   echo '<div class="copyright">' > "$PLUGIN_OUTFILE"
   echo 'All content herein © 2006, Your Company, Inc. All right reserved.' >> "$PLUGIN_OUTFILE"
   echo '</div>' >> "$PLUGIN_OUTFILE"
   NB_Copyright=$(< "$PLUGIN_OUTFILE")
   EOF
   $
   $ diff -u templates/main_index.htm templates/main_index.htm.plugin
   --- templates/main_index.htm Wed Jul 6 14:49:05 2005
   +++ templates/main_index.htm.plugin Mon Aug 8 13:12:29 2005
   @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
   $NB_Entries
   </div>
   
   +<div class="side">
   +$NB_Copyright
   +</div>
   +
   <div id="menu">
   $NB_PageLinks
   </div>
   

The advantage of the second proposition is the capability to add a general feature using the NanoBlogger framework, and the use of the CSS to modify the new copyright class.