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merz1 wrote:

I have no idea yet how much database power this beast smd_tags sucks in at the moment.

Actually, for all the code it’s suprisingly light. On a page it runs one big query which returns everything there is to know about the tags in the current context. It makes arrays indexed in various different ways (for speed to save me having to search through them later) and then goes about normal TXP business.

Whenever it hits an smd_tags tag it uses these global arrays to read out the relevant info wherever possible. The exceptions are:

• to get the content counts in smd_tag_list
• to get related items in smd_related_tags

The latter runs one extra query in total to grab the related content; the counts, however, consume one quick query per matching tag to grab the number of times that tag is used. There may be some cacheing I can do somewhere to optimise the number of count queries I do — I’ll have to look into that — but I’m pleased with the client side performance considering the amount of power it delivers.

Bloke a écrit:

As far as I’m aware, tag translation is not currently possible. A workaround might be to maintain two tag lists — one for each language — under a tag with the same name as the language itself (e.g. en-gb and fr-fr). With some cleverness (and perhaps linking the tags to a category?) you may be able to only show one set of tags depending on which current language is set. I’ve never tried it so I don’t know how far you’ll get, but it might be worth a shot. If I can help in this regard in the next version of the plugin, I will do what I can.

Ok, Thanks Bloke !

Finally, for the public side, I added new values in txp_lang tab for every tags and translate with MLP.
In my linklist form I used <txp:text item=’<txp:smd_tag_info item=“name” />’ /> to diplay the en-gb or fr-fr tags.

It doesn’t work for the admin side but I simply add a bilingual title tag in smd_tags management.

If it can help someone…

Last edited by NicolasGraph (2010-04-17 11:38:06)

NicolasGraph wrote:

is it possible to display an entire smd_tag_list (independant to the context) ?

Not easily at the moment, no. You’ll be wanting the smd_tag_cloud function that’s not been written yet :-(

NicolasGraph

Wow, I think you win the prize for “most innovative misuse of the wraptag attribute ever” award :-) I’d never even considered putting a TXP tag in there, let alone using if_different like that. Brilliant!

Shame about the tonne of <br /> tags you get in the output due to all the duplicate tags that are ignored, (can a break="" help anywhere?) but I guess you can use CSS to hide them.

I suspect Els and maniqui, among others, might be interested in adding this technique to their tag arsenal :-)

Stef wins a price for pointing all lights away from him towards a brilliant (performant?) workaround which only covers Stefs ass for not having a core ‘tag list’ output :)

And yes, as far as I understand txp:if_different a br will only be inserted when a tag is different.