[wp-hackers] Plugins installing db tables automatically

[Denis de Bernardy]

Hi Andrew,

I dropped some simpler code in the discussion of your wiki page.

Cheers,
D.

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> 
> Greetings wp-hackers,
> 
> I've just written up an article on the Codex for plugin 
> authors, on how to make plugins create their own tables in 
> the WP database. Before this gets *released* into the Codex, 
> I thought I'd run it by you guys. I want to know if you have 
> any quibbles about the code or suggestions. This is an 
> important article for the Codex, so it needs to be as 
> accurate as possible.
> 
> The main point of the article is efficiency. We don't want to 
> check/install the table every time a page is loaded. So keep 
> that in mind as you're reading it. Go ahead and make comments 
> on the discussion page
> 
> http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Jalenack/Creating_Tables_with_Plugins
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Sutherland
> http://blog.jalenack.com 
>