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Reading the recent comments on Weather Block update hangs due to unavailability of the NOAA service sparked this idea.

It would be useful if the GL2 engine could provide an external scheduling facility. I\'m thinking of a function that\'s called from cron/task scheduler via a standalone PHP executable, say, every five minutes.

GL2 plugins could register a function with this mechanism though an API that permits specification of frequency e.g. 0-11 executions per hour and offset from the hour, in five minute increments, to balance server load.

This would prove extremely useful for things like the Weather Block metar updates, RDF feed processing etc. while separating such data processing from page hits.

Another useful extension to the API would be provision for a unix-style \"cron\" time specification. This could be used to schedule events at a particular, five minute precision, intervals. Scheduled database dumps instantly spring to mind for this feature.

Regards,
Neil Darlow M.Sc.

I had heard a rumour that URLs with question marks in them would not be indexed by search engines - some rudimentary testing would indicate that this is true for google at least. I would like my static pages to be indexed - anyone want to comment on if this is true, and if there is a way to change the ? to something else??

Thanks

Hi all,

It would be great to be able to modify the page titles. That is a strong UI tool for navigation. Especially for those of us that use the back button a lot. When every page has the same title, you can\'t tell which page you\'re going back to.

Maybe the story Title could be a default page title. And for Static Pages, there could be an extra field for it.

Just another idea for GL2!

Scott