Re: new plugin: alphabetical index

Ryan Barrett <pyblosxom-6sb6M7qyT/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.pyblosxom.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Todd Warner wrote:

> Nifty. But it indexes by *filename* not by title of entry, so... for
> me, not so useful to me. If you could have it index by actual entry
> title that would be better and really makes more sense.

true! the problem is, it would have to open and read the first line of *every
entry* on each request. it already has to stat every entry, which i'm allergic
to as is. reading every one would be way worse.

still, from a functionality point of view, it is the right thing to do.

currently, a cb_walk() callback, which plugins would implement to cache the
entry hierarchy semi-permanently, is at the top of my pyblosxom todo list.
once i've done that, i'll think about how to index by title efficiently.

(granted, people with fastcgi or wsgi or mod_python don't have to worry as
much minimizing file stats and reads. i'm jealous of them. :P)

-Ryan

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