Loading entry data from file instead of db
Development and Programming
Hello Everybody,
I would like to be able to set an option on a entry that when set, serialises the entry object and writes it into a file. Then when the entry is accessed by the user the addon will check for the existence of the file and load it from disk instead of from the database. Essentially in exactly the same way that templates can be saved to file and superceed the template saved in the db. This requirement is because we deploy from source control and would like to be able to ‘release’ certain edits.
I imagine that this will require usage of hooks but even after looking at the docs i am not clear of what hook would do the job. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
thanks toby
I haven’t ever seen anyone do this EE - probably the best place to start would be http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/datagrab. If not directly for the featureset possibly as a way to figure out a coding approach.
I would have thought this would have already been done by a caching plugin, maybe that would later in the output process.
Do you know at what point the data is pulled out of the db and merged with the template?
thanks toby
Caching would be later in the process, after all variables & EE tags have been parsed.
Here’s a good doc on the overall parse order:
http://loweblog.com/downloads/ee-parse-order.pdf