Exactly. A general helper, nothing fancy. If you don't need it, then don't use it, but having it there would be convenient for more than a handful of people, I would imagine.
Krys Kevin Dangoor wrote: > On 07 Dec 2005 10:36:28 -0200, Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Ah! Then it is a column with a unique value containing only ascii >>alphanumerical characters (sans some special chars). I see now. >> >>I believe this is so application dependent that I don't see where I would use >>that in one of the last 5 apps that I wrote with TG. But then, if I had that, >>maybe I thought different. :-) > > > Here are a few examples: > > A blog: title="My Article", slug="my_article" > http://yoursite/blog/my_article > > An address book: name="Kevin Dangoor", slug="kevin_dangoor" > http://yoursite/addresses/kevin_dangoor > > The idea is just a human-readable ID that is generally automatically > created as much as possible. > > Kevin > > -- > Kevin Dangoor > Author of the Zesty News RSS newsreader > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > company: http://www.BlazingThings.com > blog: http://www.BlueSkyOnMars.com >
