[geeklog-devel] 1.5 error.log when DB dies

[Joe Mucchiello]

At 01:31 PM 8/13/2008, Tony Bibbs wrote:

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>What am I missing now?

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>Most caching scenarios go like so:


<snip>Hello?!?? Author of the Caching Template Library here. The CTL 
can cache instances of filled in templates. Perhaps I know a lot 
about how caching works. 
http://www.glfusion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=8024 But that's 
just a tangent....


>So if you have 10 geeklog sites the answer is to make sure $someKey 

>is unique.  This would be pretty easy, just pick something unique 

>from the configuration file (site_url, path, etc) and use it as the key.

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>$someKey = md5($_CONF['site_url'] . '_' . $_CONF['path_logs']);


Have you forgotten the whole point of this exercise?

If you had $_CONF['path_logs'] available YOU WOULD NOT NEED TO 
RETRIEVE IT FROM CACHE. Likewise, if the database is down 
$_CONF['site_url'] is unavailable.

Now here is the important part: There is ///nothing/// unique in 
siteconfig.php.

Tony wrote:

>1) Cache the location of the ////log directory//// using PEAR's 

>Cache_Lite or Zend_Cache.  By caching the location to the ////log 

>dir//// to a file you get out of this, yet, still allow use of 

>DB-settings. [emphasis added]


My response was to put path_logs into siteconfig.php. Put something 
unique into siteconfig just so you can retrieve something else from 
cache is not nearly as simple as just putting $_CONF['path_logs'] 
into siteconfig and not shipping a whole cache library just so 
error.log can find its place.

I believe I've proven I am NOT missing anything. Where do I send the 
medical bill for the head trauma caused by my head repeated slamming 
into a brick wall?

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Joe Mucchiello
Throwing Dice Games
http://www.throwingdice.com