FYI: this is how the voting is done (I checked this long ago, and I might have missed something but this is what I remeber of it):

The db doesn't keep track of what you have voted, each "voteable" node has a field where user_id's who voted are stacked, comma-seperated or something like that. So when you try to vote, it checks against that field to see if you've voted, so there isn't a table for you holding what you've voted on, there's a field for the node holding who voted on it, it's simpler that way.

So, once again, you cannot "piggyback on the votes database table" cause there ain't any. I'm not assuming "it needs a radical change". I know it does, and you can ask other pmdevers.

He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life.

Chady | http://chady.net/

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Visited nodes by Chady
in thread Visited nodes by bart

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