[wp-hackers] Need feedback on modification to pingback_ping(), new hook

[Computer Guru]

Interesting topic.
How much support for this thing is there? Is it just another "standard" or
does it actually have potential the utopian dream of a semantic web? Is this
like, say StumbleUpon, except on a de-centralized, per-server level?

Computer Guru
NeoSmart Technologies
http://neosmart.net/blog/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-hackers-
> bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Steve Ivy
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 5:59 AM
> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: [wp-hackers] Need feedback on modification to pingback_ping(),
> new hook
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working on an extension of the pingback mechanism that I don't
> think fits as a separate xml-rpc mechanism that could be put in
> pingback.extensions
> 
> For background, see my post about VoteLinks [1] (and mentally
> substitute pingback for trackback)
> 
> So what I want to do is, during the pingback process, when WP is
> scanning the sending post for the link, check to see if the link
> contains a REV="vote-for" (/vote-against/vote-abstain) attribute, as
> defined by the vote-links spec [2]. if so, then we store that
> information somewhere so that themes or plugins have access to it,
> essentially giving the link-ee the "intent" of the link.
> 
> Architecturally, I think that all that is needed is a hook/filter
> somewhere during the link scanning process that would give plugins a
> shot at what's being scanned, but i'm not at all certain of that
> 
> In my current implementation, I added a call to apply_filters
> ('pingback_link', $thefullAHref) that returns an array of extended
> attributes that get merged with $commentdata. Then, I have a plugin
> that adds a 'preprocess_comment' filter to modify the commentdata
> based on the whether there is a vote in there.
> 
> Clear as mud, right? I'd love some feedback on the idea in general,
> and my proposed implementation in specific. Ultimately, it's going to
> require modifying pingback_ping() to provide the mid_ping hooks.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Steve
> 
> [1] http://redmonk.net/archives/2006/12/20/votelinks-trackback-
> voteback/
> [2] http://microformats.org/wiki/votelinks
> 
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