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[Scott Wolpow]

Gary,
Thanks I have it on my to do list.

That will help.

I do like your ideas


SW



On 4/13/2012 2:44 PM, Gary Mort wrote:
> On 4/13/2012 10:07 AM, Scott Wolpow wrote:
>> Gary,
>> UCM is already done for CLI from eBay
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/joomla-dev-platform/sqdZ0B_WCiQ
>
> Been there, done that.  It sucks.  It does not match my artistic vision.
>
> 1) Hits and Faves are tied into the content table...why on god's green 
> earth should I change the last modified date for content every time a 
> hit happens? Hits can be tracked separately. And because of this data 
> being in the content table, I must accept the performance hit of a 
> truly massive join just to update the hitcount.   I truly don't care 
> about the security of the hit counter, let it make some false positive 
> registers...that's better than making it so one has to either accept 
> loss of page cache, or no hit counter.
>
> 2) Linking content to other extensions is ugly.
> 2a)You have to store an entry in the database, tied to the content id, 
> for every extension which wants to be called when a content item is 
> viewed/edited/saved.  Why?  Joomla has a plugin system for a REASON.  
> Just dispatch the message "content item id loaded" and let plugins 
> alter/add as needed.
> 2b)When last I looked, it only accepted components as extensions which 
> can modify things...it was hardcoded to load the class/object from a 
> component.  Again, use a plugin system and let the plugin decide where 
> to gets it's classes from.
>
> 3) It doesn't actually store the content in the content table.  
> Instead it stores the content, plus a bunch of json encoded data, 
> which must now be decoded and stitched back together again to actually 
> view the article.  It's murder on searches having to load EVERY 
> content item, decode the JSON, just to check your own flag.   Generate 
> once, store in body field for content...index body field for content 
> -one place to search and it can be done from the database OR from PHP.
>
> Opinionated?  Me?  I did say it was artistic didn't I?
>
>
>
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