Re: [Tikiwiki-devel] Return of the Son of the Revenge of the Them e Template Recoding!

[Marc L. <ma...@ma...>]

Hi!

Almost all features are optional in Tiki. I am convinced this one will 
be optional also.

M ;-)

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Marc Laporte
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Stephan Borg wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 10:48, LIMBURG, Mark wrote:
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>>PROS
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>> * Web-based editing and control of templates/themes
>> * Cloning and Exporting of themes
>> * Different templates for different 'groups' within the same theme
>> * Single point of backup (SQL backup grabs even more data)
>> * DB cache for file speeds and less DB access/overhead
>> * Version Control
>> * Import directly from external source (with potential for auto-update!)
>> * It's nifty :)
>> * Better security facilities
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>>CONS 
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>> * Annoying to code :P
>> * More potential to fill DB
>> * No/Broken cache would be a bad thing!
>> * Issues outstanding with Images
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>>On a side point, images held in DB are about (on very general averages here)
>>about 30% slower than file based images (can't find the URL, but just trust
>>me hehehe).  Now, with the trusty cache layer doing it's work, it's much
>>better.
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>Can I make a request that at least themes moving into DB be optional
>feature ?
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>I don't know if there are others out there like me that don't use the
>themes to their full extent and definitely wouldn't want the DB being
>bloated because of them.
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