Subj : Re: To Digital Man
To   : Sinister x
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Aug 05 2005 01:52 am

  Re: Re: To Digital Man
  By: Sinister x to alt.bbs.synchronet on Fri Aug 05 2005 05:55 am

 > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
 > 
 > I didn't think about that, but that's definitely an option thanks for the
 > help.
 > 
 > The basic implication of what I'm trying to make though is something like
 > this:
 > 
 > Let's say a user is in the oBV/2 command shell that I'm making, inside that
 > shell let's say there's a few options that are separate from what is in the
 > rest of the board. They'll have an option for which stats set, menu set, and
 > prompts set that they're on within the oBV/2 command shell that I want them
 > to be able to configure on a per-user basis with prefs saved. I would
 > PREFERRABLY like to be able to have this information saved somewhere on the
 > board in one of the regular data files, instead of having to role my own
 > configuration files. Is this kind of extensibility possible or on the
 > horizon?
 > 
 > I suppose another way to illustrate is like this, in my software that I've
 > been working on called Psylent, if a user wanted to add extensibility to his
 > own configuration options, he could simply go into the rdbms, create a new
 > table that is 1:many from the user table and use the UserNumber as the
 > foreign key. Then they could have whatever config options they wanted. Doing
 > it by file i/o though, I couldn't see a feasible way of doing that without
 > specifying your own config files, b/c any option that you would add to the
 > user's data would grow the user data file (ok in mystic it's called
 > users.dat not sure what it is in synchronet), which is a bitch as a
 > developer to make an upgrade available for users unless you role your own
 > upgrade program to grow the config file. Hope that helps with what I'm
 > trying to explain.

Sure.

Any file named data/user/####.* will be automatically "managed" by the BBS
(e.g. deleted when/if the user is deleted), so for example, the web/ssjs user
preferences are stored in data/user/####.html_prefs.

The ####.html_prefs file is a standard .ini-format file, for which there is
already a JS API (part of the "File" object, see jsobjs.html for details) to
create, write-to, and read-from, so you don't have to "roll your own".

P.S. Please post your reply *below* the quoted text, as you see everyone else
doing here. :-)

                                                  digital man

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