Table for Options

Linc

I've noticed there's no "options" table in the database schema.

If I'm making an addon that has a few options in the dash, where am I supposed to store those settings? Should every addon get a new database table even if it needs nothing more than to store a few values?

Again drawing on my limited Wordpress plugin experience, there's a wp_options table with columns option_name and option_value, which is a flexible way for plugin authors to store simple things like dash settings without adding tables.

Would it be appropriate to create one in the default installation of Vanilla 2 or Garden to encourage a standard way of doing this?

garymardell

Vanilla 2 works more through storing config values in files, ie. conf/config.php file. There is the configuration manager and a few classes for changing config values.

Linc

Is there any documentation on it besides what's in /library/core/class.configuration.php?

garymardell

At a quick look no, but the best way to learn it would be to see how other apps and plugins do it.

$Config = Gdn::Factory(Gdn::AliasConfig); $Path = PATH_CONF . DS . 'config.php'; $Config->Load($Path, 'Save'); $Config->Set('Routes'.'.friends/requests', "friendslist/friends/requests"); $Config->Save($Path);

That may help you. Its some code i was using to change the config file for routes.

Linc

OK, thanks for the info.

Mark

Now that you mention it, we should probably have a convenience function to do this...

Linc

Yes please!

garymardell

Aye @Mark that would be handy. It is a bit of a mess at the moment.

Mark

OK - I just pushed two convenience functions to master and replaced code throughout the application to use the convenience functions. They are SaveToConfig($Name, $Value), and RemoveFromConfig($Name);

Enjoy

Linc

Thanks @Mark

Mark

Oh, they both take $Name as an associative array (optionally) if you want to save a bunch of stuff at once.