Thanks for your response.

Yes, it is a tad circular. Your comment about filtering the issues is partly responsible.

This may eventually be a cgi app and in the back of my mind is the possibility of a backlog of issues to be updated. Processing them all at once could be bit of a strain on the web server. It may be best to show the user a list of outstanding issues and prompt to select one, rinse and repeat etc.. What's important is that all of an issue's articles are processed together not that all the issues are processed together.

I'm incorporating your points about "not exposing the process" and already the logic is looking clearer and the API is shrinking - always a Good Thing ™. :-)

Again, many thanks.

In reply to Re^2: Make everything an object? by wfsp
in thread Make everything an object? by wfsp

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