[wp-hackers] Multiple options vs. one large serialized option

[Viper007Bond]

Anything in the admin area will be needed for the front end as well.

I was thinking one per video format so that if the user only displayed
YouTube videos for example then only the YouTube settings would be loaded,
but with autoload they're already loaded and with autoload off that'd
require an extra query so that doesn't make any sense.

One "large" option it is. Thanks. :)

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Ozh <ozh at planetozh.com> wrote:

> The only reason I would cut options in 2 sets would be for instance:
> - set1 stored with autoload = yes, containing everything that you'll
> need on blog pages
> - set2 stored with autoload = no, containing everything needed for admin
> area
>
> Therefore, a smaller set1 would be read on WP init, and you don't mind
> adding an extra query when viewing an admin page to fetch set2
>
> But anyway I don't think it's really worth it avoiding to store
> everything in one entry.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com>
> wrote:
> > I have a plugin (Viper's Video Quicktags) that I'm currently recoding
> from
> > scratch and I'm wondering how I should store my options.
> >
> > I have a decent set of configuration variables (sizes, colors, etc.) so I
> > can't decide if I should store them in one option or break them up a bit
> > (like one per video format or something). I'm not storing huge chunks of
> > text or anything crazy like that, just small strings and some variables.
> >
> > So what's the "cutoff" where it becomes more efficient to break it up
> than
> > store it in one big long serialized string in the database? Or is there
> one?
> > It'd be easier for me to store it all in one option, but I'm not sure
> what
> > would be best from a performance standpoint.
> >
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