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<blockquote data-quote="Satin Knights" data-source="post: 5733916" data-attributes="member: 6666968"><p>So far as I have seen, wiki's have databases as the backend storage for the data, but do not have any access to the database functions for the wiki user or script programmer. The scripts are very, very simple text substitutions, if then statements, and a very few math expressions. And since the text substitutions can be both recursive and interpreted, they are comparatively slow to any real language. If you cannot do something with cut|grep|awk|sed, you are not likely to accomplish it within a wiki. They are designed to be very simplistic and static once the editing is finished.</p><p></p><p>And the coding is just plain ugly. The <a href="http://livingpf.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Eidolon" target="_blank">eidolon </a>template is about as complicate as I would want to get. A spare space or new line in that one, and it does things you don't expect it to do.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: DimGray">Obligatory: Just my opinion</span></p><p></p><p>Besides, free form for our character sheets allows more full and complete sheets. If you take a look at Arianna, she just doesn't fit if I tried to squeeze her into normal fields a character sheet would have that are chunked from a database. Too much is weird. And auto calculating, nope.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Satin Knights, post: 5733916, member: 6666968"] So far as I have seen, wiki's have databases as the backend storage for the data, but do not have any access to the database functions for the wiki user or script programmer. The scripts are very, very simple text substitutions, if then statements, and a very few math expressions. And since the text substitutions can be both recursive and interpreted, they are comparatively slow to any real language. If you cannot do something with cut|grep|awk|sed, you are not likely to accomplish it within a wiki. They are designed to be very simplistic and static once the editing is finished. And the coding is just plain ugly. The [URL="http://livingpf.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Eidolon"]eidolon [/URL]template is about as complicate as I would want to get. A spare space or new line in that one, and it does things you don't expect it to do. [COLOR=DimGray]Obligatory: Just my opinion[/COLOR] Besides, free form for our character sheets allows more full and complete sheets. If you take a look at Arianna, she just doesn't fit if I tried to squeeze her into normal fields a character sheet would have that are chunked from a database. Too much is weird. And auto calculating, nope. [/QUOTE]
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