Re: Thoughts on includes

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

How big is "huge"?

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:

> This is something Micah brought up some time ago -
> 
> Should we break the functions.php3 apart?  It's going to get HUGE.  I'm
> not sure we want the entire thing on EVERY page.  There are THREE CORE
> components in it that just about every page will need - connect(),
> resultset(), and object().  The rest of the extensions of object() such as
> article(), kbcontainer(), user(), etc. are going to amount to a good bit
> of code when thrown into one file.  Should we create a core include and
> then break the object extensions up into individual files?  One for each
> extension of object?  99.9% of our pages will only require ONE of those
> object extensions... so 99.9% of our pages would do 2 includes... plus the
> render.php3 include which makes 3.  It's either that or do a total of 2
> for every page load, and have every page pull in a MASSIVE chunk of php
> code to process.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Jason
> 

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