[Slashcode-development] misc_user_opts

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

Can someone please explain what misc_user_opts is for? it looks like this:

mysql> describe misc_user_opts;
+-------------+-----------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field       | Type                  | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-------------+-----------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| name        | varchar(32)           |      | PRI |         |       |
| optorder    | mediumint(5)          | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| seclev      | mediumint(8) unsigned |      |     | 0       |       |
| default_val | text                  |      |     |         |       |
| vals_regex  | text                  | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| short_desc  | text                  | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| long_desc   | text                  | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| opts_html   | text                  | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
+-------------+-----------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)


There's a call in Slash::DB::Mysql called 

getMiscUserOpts 

it seems to where it against the current user's seclev.

I did a quick grep for a corresponding "setMiscUserOpts" - no dice.

I found this looking at users.pl, and saw users.pl?op=editmiscopts 

I threw this in as a quickndirty impatient test:

insert into misc_user_opts 
(name,optorder,seclev,default_val,vals_regex,short_desc,long_desc,opts_html) 
values ('test',1,1,'no value','','Test data','Data for a test','');

When I hit users.pl it does show up as a radio box.

Slashdot seems to use it to control the OSDN Navbar:

<URL: http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=editmiscopts >

I guess what I'm wondering is how is this different from users_params and the 
string_params -- ie:

<URL: http://www.lottadot.com/faqster.pl?op=view&faqid=2&section=software#q7 >

Thanks,
 Shane