22 Nov
2006
22 Nov
'06
2:40 p.m.
On 11/22/06, Chris Johnson <cxjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
As much as I prefer to avoid serialized data when possible, there are cases where it makes sense. What is the general purpose of this move? What are the repercussions for modules which use this column in D6? Does core use this column?
Core profile module uses this column to store fields that are admin only. This can lead to database inconsistency if you have a field pulic for a while, then change it to admin only - the data stored when it was public is in one table and the rest is in $user->data. I don't know why that is the case, but it is. Presumably this would get changed somehwere along the way with Karoly's proposal. That makes more sense to me. Greg