Friday 11 April 2008 4:59:38 am
Hi Martin,
that would be definitively a smarter way to store data, I agree. In my case though I have many other places now where I rely on parsing a DOM inside the order's data_text fields, when building the invoice, tracking the shipping number, keeping track of downloads etc. Now that everything is in XML, I will have a hard time to unroll this. The other (small) advantage of having XML here is the human readeable format in logs and debug sessions. I will have to look into this issue, but for the moment I did not decide to switch to version 4: I've seen too many issues with the new version to rely on it for production servers for the moment. So in one word: People who don't rely on the XML storage should feel free to modify the extension's code to use the binary storage, it should work without problems. If I find some time I can also update the extension here to use your code.
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