[pmwiki-users] ZAP question

[Crisses]

On Oct 29, 2006, at 2:01 PM, marc wrote:

> Crisses said...
>>
>> On Oct 29, 2006, at 12:27 PM, The Editor wrote:
>>
>>> So what do you do?  Add the script to your cookbook, and include  
>>> it in
>>> your config file?
>>>
>>> Then of course, change the zap code to accommodate the above?  I'm
>>> downloading it right now.
>>
>> I would use the snippets to create new functions in your recipes.  I
>> wouldn't require the user to download something extra.
>>
>> It's a little hypocritical, in the case of reworking the database
>> recipes to use ADODB, but ADODB is so flexible and generic to make it
>> worthwhile, and re-writing it would be a huge undertaking.
>
> Crisses, I mentioned a while back that I had moved a few sites to  
> ADOdb
> Lite. It has less functions than the full monster, but is faster and a
> lot smaller - apparently, ADOdb is 700kb each page load these days. A
> lot of ADOdb functions can be added by activating various modules - if
> you don't need them, keep them inactive.
>
> It's a painless conversion, unless you have used some of the more
> esoteric functions. I had used GetUpdateSQL in a few places, so had to
> change these to SQL updates, but other than that, it was a straight
> swap.

My only point was that I was asking people to install a 3rd party  
plug-in, but telling Caveman he shouldn't do that....

Crisses