Forum Subject: Plugin development and core table (vars)

Posted on: 07/28/03 12:37am
By: Euan

When writing plugins, is it bad practice to use the vars table to store settings? Should I make my own table? I\'m using it for the usual group install/uninstall records, but thinking of putting a few other settings in there too. Is this evil? Cheers, Euan.

Re:Plugin development and core table (vars)

Posted on: 07/28/03 03:32am
By: Dirk

[QUOTE BY= euan] When writing plugins, is it bad practice to use the vars table to store settings?[/QUOTE] It\'s fine if you only have a few variables (I do it myself Try to think of names that won\'t cause name collisions. I\'m using names like pluginname.variablename, e.g. blog.speedlimit for the speedlimit setting in the blog plugin. bye, Dirk

Re:Plugin development and core table (vars)

Posted on: 07/28/03 04:09am
By: Euan

Thanks Dirk. I\'ve actually just made my own table for now as there are fair few items I wanted to save. The two items I do have in there are both prefixed gmail_xxx which I\'ll make gmail.xxx as that would be a sensible standard. Cheers, Euan.