I'll be getting read/write access to Wikia's extensions on a development
server soon as a volunteer tech so I can look into the code there to see
how it's done there and compare with the location of the hooks to see if
it's doable as a commons type system. Though I was thinking of something
a little more integrated. Doing it as an extension makes it a little
trickier to hook into the core methods of caching messages to reduce
server strain, right?
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of The Gaiapedia, Wikia Graphical Entertainment Project, and
Wiki-Tools.com
Rob Church wrote:
On 30/07/07, Dantman <dan_the_man(a)telus.net>
wrote:
But what about a similar Message Commons, the
current system goes:
-Language Files
-Messages Added to the MessageCache
-Local Database
But why not throw in a commons, something like:
-Language Files
-Messages Added to the MessageCache
-Commons Database
-Local Database
This is doable now; the MessageCache will call the "MessagesPreLoad"
hook when searching for a message. I believe (although I've no idea if
I'm correct in thinking this) that it's what Wikia use to facilitate
their "SharedMessages" extension.
Rob Church
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