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[ic] StaticFly
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 08:49:34PM -0700, Barry Treahy, Jr. wrote:
> Grant wrote:
>
> >>Grant wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I'm using IC 4.9.3 and I'd like to have static pages built for each of
> >>>the
> >>>items in my products database. The docs say:
> >>>
> >>>StaticFly
> >>>A Yes/No directive. If set to Yes, static builds will attempt to
> >>>
> >>>
> >>generate a
> >>
> >>
> >>>page for every part number in the database using the on-the-fly page
> >>>build
> >>>capability. If pages are already present with those names, they will be
> >>>overwritten. The default is No.
> >>>
> >>>But how do you specify which directory the files are saved in and how
> >>>often
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>they're built?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I'm just a little curious as to when or why someone would ever do this.
> >>If you have a small database, the flypage load would be minimal and if
> >>you had a giant database, the management of the flypages would be
> >>incredibly hard to handle, would it not?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I used to think the same thing. However, I've got a cross selling system
> >on
> >my flypages that checks the "keywords" field for that product against the
> >keywords field for every other product and displays the cross sells based
> >on
> >the results. Because of that, my flypages take 7-8 seconds to load.
> >Static
> >flypages would fix this, but now I'm thinking that isn't the best solution.
> >I'm thinking I need something to periodically (daily) run through that
> >keyword matching for every product in the products database and write each
> >set of results to a field for each product. That way I won't have to run
> >through that search and evaluation every time a flypage is loaded. I guess
> >the best way to do that would be with a cron and a series of loops and data
> >tag? Can the default database handle something like that for about 225
> >products? If each item takes 7 seconds, 225 items would take about 26
> >minutes....
Yeesh, that's the sort of logic I'd expect at Homeland Security. More
resources, more horsepower, less consideration.
You have done something remarkable to make it that **bad**. 225 items
in 26 minutes. ASTOUNDING. Why not just fax them your catalog!? No,
telegraph it. (Does telegraph still exist?)
Sub it out.
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