fixed a bug in templates, introduced categories, added default setup script onload, moved home.tpl code over to category, created hierachies

app.js

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ var modules = {
     	user: require('./src/user.js'),
         topics: require('./src/topics.js'),
         posts: require('./src/posts.js'),
+        categories: require('./src/categories.js'),
     	templates: require('./src/templates.js'),
     	webserver: require('./src/webserver.js'),
     	websockets: require('./src/websockets.js'),
@@ -23,4 +24,36 @@ global.modules = modules;
 	
 	
 
+
+    //setup scripts to be moved outside of the app in future.
+    function setup_categories() {
+        console.log('Checking categories...');
+        modules.categories.get(function(data) {
+            if (data.categories.length === 0) {
+                console.log('Setting up default categories...');
+
+                modules.categories.create({
+                    'name': 'General',
+                    'description': 'A place to talk about whateeeever you want'
+                });
+
+
+                modules.categories.create({
+                    'name': 'NodeBB Development',
+                    'description': 'Bugs? Dont worry, we dont read this thread, so post them here.'
+                });
+
+
+                modules.categories.create({
+                    'name': 'Design Create Play',
+                    'description': 'In future an example of how a hidden category should look like.'
+                });
+
+            } else console.log('Good.');
+        });
+    }
+
+
+    setup_categories();
+
 }(global.configuration));

public/src/app.js

@@ -98,12 +98,12 @@ var socket,
 		post_window = post_window || document.getElementById('post_window');
 		jQuery(post_window).slideToggle(250);
 
-		if (post_mode == null || post_mode == 'topic') {
+		if (post_mode == 'topic') {
 			post_title.style.display = "block";
 			reply_title.style.display = "none";
 			post_title.focus();
 			submit_post_btn.onclick = function() {
-				app.post_topic();
+				app.post_topic(id);
 			}
 		} else {
 			if (post_mode == 'reply') {
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ var socket,
 		jQuery(post_window).slideToggle(250);
 
 	};
-	app.post_topic = function() {
+	app.post_topic = function(category_id) {
 		var title = document.getElementById('post_title').value,
 			content = document.getElementById('post_content').value;
 
@@ -163,11 +163,11 @@ var socket,
 
 		socket.emit('api:topics.post', {
 			'title' : title,
-			'content' : content 
+			'content' : content,
+			'category_id' : category_id
 		});
 		
-		jQuery('#post_title').val('');
+		jQuery('#post_title, #post_content').val('');
-		jQuery('#post_content').val('');
 		jQuery(post_window).slideToggle(250);
 	};
 

public/src/templates.js

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ var templates = {};
 
 	function init() {
 		loadTemplates([
-			'header', 'footer', 'register', 'home', 'topic','account',
+			'header', 'footer', 'register', 'home', 'topic','account', 'category',
 			'login', 'reset', 'reset_code', 'account',
 			'confirm',
 			'emails/reset', 'emails/reset_plaintext', 'emails/email_confirm', 'emails/email_confirm_plaintext'
@@ -90,9 +90,8 @@ var templates = {};
 		var template = this.html, regex, block;
 
 		return (function parse(data, namespace, template) {
-			if (data.length == 0) {
+			if (!data || data.length == 0) {
-				regex = makeRegex('[^]*');
+				template = '';
-				template = template.replace(regex, '');
 			}
 
 			for (var d in data) {
@@ -147,6 +146,7 @@ function load_template(callback) {
 	url = (url === '' || url === '/') ? 'home' : url;
 
 	jQuery.get(API_URL + url, function(data) {
+		console.log(data)
 		document.getElementById('content').innerHTML = templates[url.split('/')[0]].parse(JSON.parse(data));
 		if (callback) callback();
 	});

public/templates/home.tpl

@@ -1,29 +1,9 @@
-<button id="new_post" class="btn btn-primary btn-large">New Post</button>
+<h3>Categories</h3>
 <ul class="topic-container">
-<!-- BEGIN topics -->
+<!-- BEGIN categories -->
-<a href="topic/{topics.slug}"><li class="topic-row">
+<a href="category/{categories.slug}"><li class="topic-row">
-	<h4>{topics.title}</h4>
+	<h4>{categories.name}</h4>
-	<p>Posted {topics.relativeTime} ago by <span class="username">{topics.username}</span>. {topics.post_count} posts.</p>
+	<p>{categories.description}</p>
 </li></a>
-<!-- END topics -->
+<!-- END categories -->
 </ul>
-<script type="text/javascript">
-var new_post = document.getElementById('new_post');
-new_post.onclick = function() {
-	app.open_post_window();
-}
-
-jQuery('document').ready(function() {
-	
-	
-	
-});
-
-
-/*app.alert({
-	title: 'Welcome back',
-	message: 'Some welcome message to test alerts!',
-	type: 'info',
-	timeout: 2000
-});*/
-</script>

src/posts.js

@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 var	RDB = require('./redis.js'),
 	utils = require('./utils.js'),
 	marked = require('marked'),
-	user = require('./user.js'),
+	user = require('./user.js');
-	async = require('async');
 
 (function(Posts) {
 

src/topics.js

@@ -11,12 +11,14 @@ var	RDB = require('./redis.js'),
 
 
 
-	Topics.get = function(callback, start, end) {
+	Topics.get = function(callback, category_id, start, end) {
 		if (start == null) start = 0;
 		if (end == null) end = start + 10;
 
+		//build a proper wrapper for this and move it into above function later
+		var range_var = (category_id) ? 'categories:' + category_id + ':tid'  : 'topics:tid';
 
-		RDB.lrange('topics:tid', start, end, function(tids) {
+		RDB.lrange(range_var, start, end, function(tids) {
 			var title = [],
 				uid = [],
 				timestamp = [],
@@ -64,17 +66,17 @@ var	RDB = require('./redis.js'),
 								});
 							}
 						
-							callback({'topics': topics});
+							callback({'category_id': category_id, 'topics': topics});
 						});
 
 						
 					}
 				);
-			} else callback([]);
+			} else callback({'category_id': category_id, 'topics': []});
 		});
 	}
 
-	Topics.post = function(socket, uid, title, content, category) {
+	Topics.post = function(socket, uid, title, content, category_id) {
 		
 		if (uid === 0) {
 			socket.emit('event:alert', {
@@ -102,8 +104,8 @@ var	RDB = require('./redis.js'),
 			
 
 
-			if (category) {
+			if (category_id) {
-				RDB.lpush('topics:' + category + ':tid', tid);
+				RDB.lpush('categories:' + category_id + ':tid', tid);
 			}
 
 			var slug = tid + '/' + utils.slugify(title);

src/webserver.js

@@ -147,6 +147,10 @@ passport.deserializeUser(function(uid, done) {
 		res.send(templates['header'] + '<script>templates.ready(function(){ajaxify.go("' + 'topic/' + req.params.topic_id + '");});</script>' + templates['footer']);
 	});
 
+	app.get('/category/:category_id/:slug?', function(req, res) {
+		res.send(templates['header'] + '<script>templates.ready(function(){ajaxify.go("' + 'category/' + req.params.category_id + '");});</script>' + templates['footer']);
+	});
+
 	app.get('/confirm/:code', function(req, res) {
 		res.send(templates['header'] + '<script>templates.ready(function(){ajaxify.go("' + 'confirm/' + req.params.code + '");});</script>' + templates['footer']);
 	});
@@ -155,7 +159,7 @@ passport.deserializeUser(function(uid, done) {
 	function api_method(req, res) {
 		switch(req.params.method) {
 			case 'home' :
-					global.modules.topics.get(function(data) {
+					global.modules.categories.get(function(data) {
 						res.send(JSON.stringify(data));
 					});
 				break;
@@ -185,6 +189,12 @@ passport.deserializeUser(function(uid, done) {
 						res.send(JSON.stringify(data));
 					}, req.params.id, (req.user) ? req.user.uid : 0);
 				break;
+			case 'category' :
+					global.modules.topics.get(function(data) {
+						console.log(data);
+						res.send(JSON.stringify(data));
+					}, req.params.id);
+				break;
 			case 'account' : 
 					get_account_fn(req, res, function(userData) {
 						res.send(JSON.stringify(userData));

src/websockets.js

@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ var	SocketIO = require('socket.io').listen(global.server,{log:false}),
 		});
 
 		socket.on('api:topics.post', function(data) {
-			modules.topics.post(socket, uid, data.title, data.content);
+			modules.topics.post(socket, uid, data.title, data.content, data.category_id);
 		});
 
 		socket.on('api:posts.reply', function(data) {