Chapter 8: Intranet Simple Document Publisher 255 Method (Starting a web site)
Chapter 8: Intranet Simple Document Publisher 255 Method Description isPublishable() Determines if the given publisher is allowed to publish in a specific category. It takes category ID and user ID as parameter and returns TRUE if the user is authorized to publish documents under the given category; otherwise, it returns FALSE. addCategoryPublishers() Adds publishers to a specific category. It takes category ID and user IDs as parameters and returns TRUE upon successful insertion of the data. It returns FALSE if it fails to add the publishers for the category. addCategoryViewers() Adds viewers to a specific category. It takes category ID and user IDs as parameters and returns TRUE upon successful insertion of the data. It returns FALSE if it fails to add the viewers for the category. The Doc class The Doc class provides the doc object, which is used to manipulate doc. It allows publishers to create and delete doc. The ch08/apps/class/class.Doc.php file in the CDROM is an implementation of this class. The following are the methods available in this class: . Doc(): This is the constructor method, which performs the following tasks: Sets the object variable cat_tbl, which holds the category table name, to $LD_CATEGORY_TBL, which is loaded from the ld.conf file. Sets the object variable doc_tbl, which holds the LD_DOCUMENT table name, to $LD_DOC_TBL, which is loaded from the ld.conf file. Sets the object variable resp_tbl, which holds the response table name, to $LD_RESPONSE_TBL, which is loaded from the ld.conf file. Sets the object variable track_tbl, which holds the track table name, to $LD_TRACK_TBL, which is loaded from the ld.conf file. Sets an object variable called std_fields, which is an array that contains the LD_DOCUMENT table attributes and their data type.