Hi all,
Just a comment to the symlink discussion. Very interesting.
There are a number of difficulties associated in the symlinks if they're
implemented as a special kind of an article record. Issues like data
integrity, ownership and access control get quite hairy. Implementing
them safely and efficiently would require limiting the usability of the
symlinks quite a lot. I'd implement such symlinks only at the PHP level.
Implementing symlinks as a separate table would be cleaner. They would
be efficient and easy to control. The symlink records could have their
own score fields if needed, but the fields of the actual articles could
also be used in ordering. Symlink ownership would be separate from the
article ownership and broken links would be easy to locate and remove.
The only but would be that you'd need to use a separate
mgd_list_linked_articles function instead of the normal
mgd_list_articles.
Jukka
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