[Slashcode-development] blocks, bids, sections and skins

SourceForge Headquarters 1320 Columbia Street Suite 310 San Diego, CA 92101 +1 (858) 422-6466

Before skins, blocks could have a bid of "sectionname_blockname". Now  
that we have skins, what's the preferred method to do this?

A look at the blocks schema shows an integer for all_skins, a varchar  
skin, and no skid.

So - I would think that the "sectionname_blockname" bid naming  
convention is now depricated because the varchar(30) skin can be  
defined for a particular block?

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks,
  Shane

mysql> describe blocks;
+--------------+--------------------------+------+-----+--------- 
+-------+
| Field        | Type                     | Null | Key | Default |  
Extra |
+--------------+--------------------------+------+-----+--------- 
+-------+
| bid          | varchar(30)              |      | PRI |         |       
  |
| block        | text                     | YES  |     | NULL    |       
  |
| seclev       | mediumint(8) unsigned    |      |     | 0       |       
  |
| type         | enum('static','portald') |      | MUL | static  |       
  |
| description  | text                     | YES  |     | NULL    |       
  |
| skin         | varchar(30)              |      | MUL |         |       
  |
| ordernum     | tinyint(4)               | YES  |     | 0       |       
  |
| title        | varchar(128)             |      |     |         |       
  |
| portal       | tinyint(4)               |      |     | 0       |       
  |
| url          | varchar(128)             | YES  |     | NULL    |       
  |
| rdf          | varchar(255)             | YES  |     | NULL    |       
  |
| retrieve     | tinyint(4)               |      |     | 0       |       
  |
| last_update  | timestamp(14)            | YES  |     | NULL    |       
  |
| rss_template | varchar(30)              | YES  |     | NULL    |       
  |
| items        | smallint(6)              |      |     | 0       |       
  |
| autosubmit   | enum('no','yes')         |      |     | no      |       
  |
| rss_cookie   | varchar(255)             | YES  |     | NULL    |       
  |
| all_skins    | tinyint(4)               |      |     | 0       |       
  |
+--------------+--------------------------+------+-----+--------- 
+-------+
18 rows in set (0.00 sec)