Registered: 06/05/06
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Loc: Portland, OR; USA
Originally Posted By: Rick
The double storage is basically so we can offer more complex ubbcode. For example, the php markup. There is no way we could "uncode" that and end up with what the user typed in exactly.
Why not store the UBBCode in the database then parse it out when it's called?
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Why not store the UBBCode in the database then parse it out when it's called?
Putting a post into the database happens once. Getting it out of the database happens about a three hundred billion gazillion times
I love the new way, it allows for lots of custom ubb code without loosing any performance. And all at the little cost of a little diskspace on your database server.
Registered: 06/05/06
Posts: 14994
Loc: Portland, OR; USA
Was thinking you could serialize the content from the db as the cached content and parse it into the forum as an array; at least it made sense when I was on the john