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Boone B Gorges 5613bd11f7 Generate activity actions dynamically, instead of using static values stored in the database ... Activity actions - like 'Joe became a registered member' - have always been stored as static strings in the activity table. This has been a perennial thorn in the side of BP site administrators. For one thing, static strings cannot be translated for multilingual audiences (without unreasonable workarounds). For another, information in these static strings becomes out of date as users change their display names, groups change their names, and so on. This changeset makes it possible for activity types to be registered with a new $format_callback function, passed to bp_activity_set_action(), which BP will use to generate the action dynamically when building the activity loop. This makes the activity stream fully localizable, continually up-to-date, and generally the bomb dot com. Existing plugins that do not register format_callback functions will continue to have their actions pulled directly from the database. Likewise, since a copy of the static string is saved in the activity table, static strings can be served if the given component is disabled at any point (and thus the callback is no longer available). The original argument for caching the action strings was that generating them inline was too resource intensive; it often requires pulling up display names, user permalinks, group links, blog post names, and so forth. To address this problem, each component can now prefetch required data at the beginning of an activity loop by hooking to bp_activity_prefetch_object_data, and loading any relevant data into the cache. The Activity, Friends, Groups, and Blogs component now do this natively. It's likely that this prefetching will have other performance benefits, as plugin authors will now be able to access user data etc inline without performance penalties. The case of the Blogs component is a special one; it's not practical to prefetch data from multiple blogs at the beginning of a loop, due to the resources required by switch_to_blog(). For this reason, the format_callback functions in the blog component cache some relevant data (like the post name) in blogmeta, where it's readily accessible within the loop. Fixes #3856 git-svn-id: https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@8125 cdf35c40-ae34-48e0-9cc9-0c9da1808c22		2014-03-13 18:34:06 +00:00
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define-constants.php	In test suite, break constant definitions into separate file	2013-12-12 20:48:46 +00:00
factory.php	Generate activity actions dynamically, instead of using static values stored in the database	2014-03-13 18:34:06 +00:00
install.php	Introduce Sign Ups Management	2014-03-13 00:58:28 +00:00
loader.php	In test suite, break constant definitions into separate file	2013-12-12 20:48:46 +00:00
testcase.php	Improvements to BP_UnitTestCase::go_to() for WP < 3.9	2014-03-10 23:57:27 +00:00