[pmwiki-devel] recipe configuration screens: best practice?

[marc]

 said...

> My question again: generally speaking, is it preferable to save  
> configuration information as page text variables (within the text  
> field of a page), or as separate fields in the page?
> 
>  From the perspective of a PHP programmer, I'm inclined to use  
> separate fields so that I can simply ReadPage($pagename) to get all  
> the variables at once, whereas PageTextVar($pagename,$varname) would  
> have to be called over and over again for each variable -- very  
> inefficient.

Although I've asked Pm to confirm this in another thread - unrelated to 
this thread - it looks to me that PageTextVar($pagename,$varname) caches 
all the page text variables (PTVs) for a page the first time it reads a 
PTV for a page. So, all PageTextVar($pagename,$varname) does on 
subsequent calls for a page is:

      return $PCache[$pagename]["=p_$var"];

So, in fact, it's very efficient.

-- 
Best,
Marc