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[Christopher H. Laco]

Ashley wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Stephen Sykes wrote:
>> Ashley wrote:
>>> On Apr 11, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Stephen Sykes wrote:
>>>> Chisel - What is so odd in passing the tag id to the controller for =

>>>> the "by_tag" feature?
>>>
>>>
>>> I think this is the issue: "Other users also tagged this 27." The tag =

>>> is the human readable part of the record. :)
>>>
>> I'm still not getting this. :-\
>>
>> Once a new tag is added to the database the tag id will never change, =

>> only the tag weight. Tag id is unique and is primary. I suppose the =

>> tag description could be used with an index on that column for =

>> performance. That would make sense, if that is your concern.
> =

> It's that http://mysite.com/tag/1232 is meaningless to the user. Not =

> that it's programatically incorrect; which, as you know, it's not. =

> http://mysite.com/tag/pangolins is better UI.

Well, I'm going to channel for the black part of my heart that mst is =

responsible for.... :-)

This is much like the quandry:

/users/146     for admin purposes vs.
/users/claco   for humans on a browse

choosing one or the other always seems to lead to problems.. so taking a =

tip from RHOX, do both...

/tag/name/<name>
/tag/id/<id>

The greatness of future possibilities is expanded to much happiness. =

Chained/sub instance() make all the code behind either option JustWork.

-=3DChris

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