[ic] StaticFly

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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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