Extension talk:TableEdit

The extension looks great, I am looking foward to testing it. --Gundestrup 14:35, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Rational for off page data
I was just wondering what the rational was for storing data off page. In a case like this it would seem that data entered would not be accessible to the standard wiki search. Is this true? --Dtsig 02:59, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
 * the text gets stored in the wiki as if it was a regular table. There are two reasons for storing it in the external database.  The first has to do with asynchronous data mining of the table content. The idea is that middleware can be written to work on the external db without interfering with the wiki's db or having to go through the MW interfaces.  I'm working on that kind of middleware right now, but it's in Perl, not PHP.  The second is laziness/lack of imagination/coding skill on my part in terms of how to implement it if it was just saved in the wiki.  In hindsight, I probably could have spent more time adapting whatever the parser already does with tables.  -- JimHu 03:15, 21 April 2007 (UTC)