Coming Soon To A Minx Near You

Despite the explosions and alarums here at PixyLabs over the weekend, I did manage to get some work done.*  I've added a secure persistence model to the BBCode engine,** merged the topic query code into the post query code,*** rewrote the URL parsing system as a generic engine instead of a whole list of special cases, and started in on the new filter engine.

To see what's going on, you'll need to look at the address bar and then at the page contents:

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Basically, you can now string together any of the filtering and formatting functions, currently search, filter, tag, keyword, title, archive, author, and feed, to create whatever you want.  If you want a feed of posts tagged "anime", no problem.  If you want to search just the post titles for last October for the phrase "Potato Cats", no problem.  It also magically fixes problems like the limitation of the current search engine, which can only produce one (albeit arbitrarily long) page of results.

Due to the blowing-uppings, it's not quite ready to go, but will get installed next weekend along with some of the other handy 1.2 features (like knowing when you have a new private message...)

* I'm currently employed three days a week, and spending the other four working on mee.nu and mu.nu, so having my weekend wiped out by multiple catastrophic computer failures is even less pleasant than you'd normally expect.

** Which addresses the problem I mentioned where if you put a [slideshow] tag in the body of your post, it forgets the settings in the extended entry.  I'm adding an automated footnote system, and that has to remember such details, so I killed two bbirds with one stone.

*** Which not only fixes some existing bugs, but means I don't have to maintain two sets of near-identical code.  So if I were to embark on a major rewrite of the post query functionality, it would automatically
 apply also to the [topics] tag.

**** Damn!  The new static server code I installed last weekend now does beautiful resizing for GIFs, but still ruins PNGs.  Back to the board of drawing.

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