(Written and Maintained by Dirk Gomez)

Goal

Make OpenACS

• more secure
• code more consistent
• programming more efficient
• better template-able

The Plan - Big Picture

• Have a system that can be navigated.
• Have many people fix the many remaining bugs.
• Gradually enhance the templating system to handle the new quoting behaviour.

Coding Tips

• Property and include parameters currently need the noquote tag to avoid "over-quoting". The templating system should be changed so that this is not necessary.
• Remove ad_quotehtml from TCL files - you don't need it anymore because it is being done by the templating system for you. (Exception: multirows where you specifically want to quote only some rows)
• Don't generate HTML in TCL

Background and verbose documentation

Hrvoje Niksic originally proposed and submitted the noquote patch and wrote up two excellent documents:

• Introduction: http://jagor.srce.hr/~hniksic/no-quote.html
• Upgrade strategy: http://jagor.srce.hr/~hniksic/no-quote-upgrade.html

Copenhagen Meeting Discussion

Here's the discussion of the Copenhagen discussion: http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=92385

Forum Threads

• http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=52555
• http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=78129
• http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=81157

Conversion Code

The code to perform automatic conversion can be found here: http://openacs.org/storage/?folder_id=73696.