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Caterogies may be hidden [message #165242] Mon, 16 May 2011 02:12 Go to next message
syl20a is currently offline  syl20a   France
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Hello,

include/cat.inc use an array with a numeric key to sort categories and forums in cache

the numeric key is computed like this :
$c += pow(10, 2 + $ml - $lvl[0]]) * $v[4];

in rare circumstances the $c overrides a previous used index and the previous forums "disappear".

I had to change pow(10) to pow(15) to have enough indices without overrides.

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Re: Caterogies may be hidden [message #165243 is a reply to message #165242] Mon, 16 May 2011 05:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
naudefj is currently offline  naudefj   South Africa
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This is unusual. Do you have a lot of categories and forums?

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Re : Re: Caterogies may be hidden [message #165244 is a reply to message #165243] Mon, 16 May 2011 05:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
syl20a is currently offline  syl20a   France
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I've got 211 forums in 82 categories

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Re: Re : Re: Caterogies may be hidden [message #165247 is a reply to message #165244] Mon, 16 May 2011 09:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
naudefj is currently offline  naudefj   South Africa
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To be honest, I don't understand that code and I'm not sure if 15 would be the best value. Shouldn't we, for example, rather make it 20 (or even higher). Or would that we too much?

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Re: Caterogies may be hidden [message #165476 is a reply to message #165242] Sun, 26 June 2011 02:25 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Den Mon, 16 May 2011 08:12 skrev syl20a:
Hello,

include/cat.inc use an array with a numeric key to sort categories and forums in cache

the numeric key is computed like this :
$c += pow(10, 2 + $ml - $lvl[0]]) * $v[4];


!?!?!
What is this about !?
Could it be that the text of a category shall be converted into a numeric for identification purposes?

Or do you want to make the numerics correlate, so if you show in numerical $c order, the forum come up in a logical order?
Please kindly, kill the POW before you figure out what it do!

number pow( number $base, number $exp)
Returns base raised to the power of exp.

NEVER NEVER enter into the floating point unless you do science calculations or similar work. Always set the BUG flag to all such code. I once removed the floating points from a point-of-sales terminal.

Floating point have (... they are called the Ureal Numbers!) have the nasty habit of working only somtimes or mostly.

I am willing to help to change this into something else.

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Re: Caterogies may be hidden [message #165477 is a reply to message #165476] Sun, 26 June 2011 04:12 Go to previous message
naudefj is currently offline  naudefj   South Africa
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Yea, this is a nasty piece of code.
It would be fantastic if you can re-write it or simply add comments to make to understandable.
My guess is that it creates gaps between categories for forums so that it can be sorted as a hierarchy (for display on the index page).

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