I have a few questions about using multiple templates and performance.
I am building a community resource directory for our local private, nonprofit and government agencies. What started out as a simple project for a non-profit has sparked the interest in other agencies as well. I would like to use different template sets for different agencies so everyone could use and share the same information while retaining their own identity. I understand that this is easily done with LinksSQL.
My questions are:
Using dynamic templates I can accomplish this using the template linking method, but can I have LSQL build static pages for multiple template use? Maybe assign a build directory for each set? I am concerned about the bandwidth when using dynamic pages, and building static pages should help, at least I think so??
If the above is not possible maybe using static and dynamic pages? Link to the static pages for the most heavily used site and link to the dynamic templates for the others?
Any insight into this would be helpful.
I am also looking into using the XML plug-in for those sites that just want to access information. I have just discovered this plug-in and not quite sure how it works. I am assuming that a search box is placed on a site and that site can query the DB with the results returned to XML. Is this information then displayed on the referring site or is a template used from the template directory?
This seems like it will turn into a very interesting project, and I am sure I will be using this forum for guidance. Thank you all for being such great help.
I am building a community resource directory for our local private, nonprofit and government agencies. What started out as a simple project for a non-profit has sparked the interest in other agencies as well. I would like to use different template sets for different agencies so everyone could use and share the same information while retaining their own identity. I understand that this is easily done with LinksSQL.
My questions are:
Using dynamic templates I can accomplish this using the template linking method, but can I have LSQL build static pages for multiple template use? Maybe assign a build directory for each set? I am concerned about the bandwidth when using dynamic pages, and building static pages should help, at least I think so??
If the above is not possible maybe using static and dynamic pages? Link to the static pages for the most heavily used site and link to the dynamic templates for the others?
Any insight into this would be helpful.
I am also looking into using the XML plug-in for those sites that just want to access information. I have just discovered this plug-in and not quite sure how it works. I am assuming that a search box is placed on a site and that site can query the DB with the results returned to XML. Is this information then displayed on the referring site or is a template used from the template directory?
This seems like it will turn into a very interesting project, and I am sure I will be using this forum for guidance. Thank you all for being such great help.
