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Re: Central storage for site-wide constants: Helpful?
wet wrote:
Frankly, this is a hmm… awkward… concept. I wouldn’t want to count the support threads and bug fixes stemming from such an implementation. Databases are made to handle name/value pairs quite reasonably.
Ah, ok.
I thought the idea was to not leave traces on the database, and that made me think this awkward idea about a created-on-the-fly manager for variable values.
Last edited by maniqui (2008-05-28 15:39:01)
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Re: Central storage for site-wide constants: Helpful?
Related but off topic…
Parsing css and inserting site-wide constants would be awesomely powerful. I imagine that parsing css slow things down quite a bit, but if you use some kind of css-caching ala rvm_css this would be alleviated after the initial build of a site.
Colors, margins, paddings floats, even entire methods could be modularized this way…
Thoughts?
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Re: Central storage for site-wide constants: Helpful?
rvm_css does static caching, because CSS is exactly that: static. If you parse CSS it’s no longer static. The only way to find the correct CSS would be to parse it and that has to happen when fetching the CSS.
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Re: Central storage for site-wide constants: Helpful?
But it could do a little parsing during the ‘save’ event. Endless possibilities ;-)
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Re: Central storage for site-wide constants: Helpful?
Yep, I had pictured it the way Wet described it. When you save the css it parses some nice little variable-ish constants. Then it is served up as static.
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Re: Central storage for site-wide constants: Helpful?
Shaun Inman has already done all the hard thinking.
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Re: Central storage for site-wide constants: Helpful?
That’s exactly what I was thinking of.
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Last edited by iblastoff (2008-07-02 10:18:07)
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Re: Central storage for site-wide constants: Helpful?
Yes wet, very useful for those that don’t do stripes in jQuery.
In the same vein… untested but should work if I’ve understood the syntax:
<txp:variable name="plural" value='<txp:comments_count />' />
<p>
<txp:comments_count /> comment<txp:if_variable name="plural" value="1"/><txp:else />s</txp:if_variable> so far.
</p>Last edited by Bloke (2008-07-02 10:23:37)
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Re: Central storage for site-wide constants: Helpful?
iblastoff wrote:
I think the original base is the Registry Pattern. At least, this is what I had in mind.
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