Description

This plugin will add a few additional administration buttons to your SPIP site’s public area. These buttons will allow you to directly edit the content of an article or section, access a private area from anywhere in your site, or create a new article (among other things) without having to leave the "public side" of your site.

The plugin will also allow you to show or hide the full button bar with a click of a button, so you can free up some screen space while in the site’s public area. Your preference for the button bar ("visible" or "hidden") is saved in a cookie so the only time you will have to set this option is the first time you use it.

The technology at work in this plugin (which overrides file formulaire_admin.html) is not new or unique; it is already in use and explained here. The only difference is that it now works as a plugin and there is no need to modify any files or templates, and it also allows for easy upgrades.

The text on the buttons is localized, and is displayed in your chosen language. The "show/hide" capability is quite new and uses javascript.

Please note that all edits made using this plugin are automatically classified in the section you are visiting on the public side of your site.

This plugin is distributed under the GNU/GPL licence.

Installation

As for any other plugin, you just need to download following archive, unzip it, and move extracted folder to SPIP’s /plugins directory. The plugin must be activated through the private area.

Download the latest release

From http://files.spip.org/spip-zone/

Please refer to the Spip official documentation for any further detail concerning plugins.

New buttons available

The plugin proposes following options, some of these appearing according to the context. Bold descriptions indicates that the button appears only for administrators who activated their administration cookie, and not to contributors who have no rights to perform such action :

-  Keep the buttons on-top and fixed () or not () ;
-  Name of the current connected user and link to its page ;
-  XML debugger ;
-  Write a new article (in active section) ;
-  Create a new section (as a subsection of the active one) ;
-  Reference a new website (in active section) ;
-  Write a news item (in active section) ;
-  Edit content of active section, article, news item ;
-  Modify active section, article, keyword, referenced website, author ;
-  Refresh page ( or if a refresh is needed) ;
-  Statistics ;
-  Preview ;
-  Acces private area (button appears on each page on not only on summary) ;
-  Template debugger ;
-  Logging out () ;
-  Hide () / Show () buttons bar.

Some of these buttons allready exists in spip’s core distribution.

A few screenshots

View the bar on the home page

View the bar on an article

View the bar on a (sub)section

View when the bar is hidden

Updates

This plugin is now developped collectively through SVN on Spip-Zone. The present archive is consequently likely to be updated frequently with minor modification which won’t be reported here anymore.

See http://zone.spip.org/trac/spip-zone... to check for versioning.

-  Last known major modifications :

Version 1.2 :
-  This version now displays some of its options to administrators only (and not to all contributors) in order to avoid error messages relative to rights granted on the private area).
-  The "refresh" button is also replaced by an icon, to gain space.

Version 1.3 :
-  The "Preview" button, which has been removed by mistake, has been replaced.
-  New option added : "Edit this News Item".

Version 1.4 :
-  The "show / hide" option is now Internet Explorer 6 complient.
-  When a user logged off, buttons now disappear (they stood in place before, until you broke the identification cookie, meaning "connecting using a different ID" for exemple...).

Version 2 :
-  A PHP configuration file has been added, allowing to hide some options. As it is written in PHP, it’s now possible to use conditions to handle options’ display.

Version 2.1 :
-  A new button now allows to keep the bar fixed on top of your screen while scrolling on your website’s pages. This option does NOT work on Internet Explorer 6 (which does not handle the position:fixed; CSS property.

Version 2.2 :
-  The plugin has been made Spip 1.9.2 complient (and also Spip 2.0 complient, as I could notice on my own. Feedbacks warmly welcome !)
-  Adding a configuration option allowing to display the buttons vertically on the right side of your screen.

Version 2.3 :
-  Adding a confirmation message behind the "Log Off" button (mainly to avoid accidental disconnections in case of a mistaken click)

Version 2.4 :
-  Buttons which were not "localized" are now available in ever languages you maintain in the plugin’s /lang directory.
-  The "refresh" button now becomes like when a refresh of the page is needed.

Compatibility

This plugin works fine on SPIP 1.9.1, 1.9.2. and 2.0 (versions : SVN, RC & Stable)