SBlog Data Structures


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Last updated at 1:42 am UTC on 17 January 2006

Here's a a partially filled out list of typical data structures that some of the web logs appear to use:

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The above diagram is meant to sketch some typical data structures and their relationships; this does not represent the implementation.
Notes:

An author may have more than one blog
There may be multiple authors that may write to a blog

Post Description (Blog Entry)

Variable	Notes
userid	user identifier;
dateCreated	ISO.8601
postid	post identification number
description	The main body of the post
title	title of the post
link	location; http://www.sblog.com/Johnson/0001.html
permaLink	location; http://www.sblog.com/Johnson/0001.html

Note: How posts are referred to
All of the posts are numbered sequentially, where the numbered sequence identifier is referred to as the postid. Conceptually, this means that all posts are held in an array structure. Note that this means that an account may have postids that are out of sequence, as the ids are served througout the space on an as needed basis. As an example, the weblog 'John' may contain postids of 1, 2, 4, and 7 while weblog 'Mary' may contain postids of 3, 5, and 6.

Blog Description

blogName	Name of the blog
blogid	Identifier number for the blog
url	The url entry point of the blog

Author (User) Description

Variable	Example
username	JohnnyJ
password	johnIsKing
first name	John
last name	Johnson
nick name	johnny
email address	john@john.com
url of XML-RPC interface address	www.sblog.com/sblog-xmlrpc

Here's the database schema layout for a full featured weblog server, MovableType: mysql.dump. Note that this is for informational purposes only, not for a direct translation of MT data structures.

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