Nice. I hadn't read adrian's thread before. If only I'd searched on 'relm' :)
So if we change the variable table to (system.install):
db_query("CREATE TABLE {variable} (
namespace varchar(128) NOT NULL default ''
name varchar(128) NOT NULL default '',
value longtext NOT NULL,
language varchar(12) NOT NULL default '',
PRIMARY KEY (namespace, name, language)
) /*!40100 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET UTF8 */ ");
We'd be halfway there.
a patch to variable_get, set, del, and init... in bootstrap.inc and we'd maintain full backward compatibility
with the current system, but allow namespace uniqueness and a helper function for mass loading...
On 5/3/07, Moshe Weitzman <weitzman@tejasa.com> wrote:
> - we can save extra typing and value passing on variable_get calls
> - we have a hook to reuse when we need a list of variables
> to present for localization
>
> adds pluses over just using constants.
>
> Sure, only using constants for default variable values could be make
> variable usage better, but I think a hook do more just by being a
> central place and not a set of unrelated constants.
i'd like to see this centralized in a hook too. we'll be one step closer to
the hierarchy that adrian proposed long ago:
http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2006-06/msg00309.html
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