Subj : Re: To Digital Man
To   : alt.bbs.synchronet
From : Sinister x
Date : Fri Aug 05 2005 07:34 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

"Digital Man" <digital.man@vert.synchro.net.remove-k2c-this> wrote in 
message news:42F328D7.33052.sync@vert.synchro.net...
>  To: Sinister x
>  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
>

Very cool, and sorry using Outlook Express right now. (: 


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