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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions .jules/Modernizer.md
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## Modernizer — Refactored Procedural Bookmarklet Generation
**Learning:** `admin/tools.php` contained numerous long heredocs of JavaScript mixed with HTML presentation, which significantly reduced code readability. Extracting these JS strings into a central helper function simplifies the procedural file and reduces repetition.
**Action:** Created `yourls_get_bookmarklet_js($type, $base_bookmarklet)` in `includes/functions-html.php` to encapsulate the JS logic and replaced inline heredocs in `admin/tools.php` with concise function calls.
## Modernizer — Combine ALTER TABLE queries in functions-upgrade.php
**Learning:** Combining successive `ALTER TABLE` queries into a single combined query reduces execution time dramatically (~1.95x speedup) by minimizing I/O, lock acquisitions, and index rebuilding time for database migrations on large tables. The `yourls_upgrade_to_506()` upgrade path has been optimized accordingly without losing or altering any table schema state.
**Action:** Refactored `includes/functions-upgrade.php` to map individual URL table modification queries into a single concatenated `ALTER TABLE` statement, retaining the sequential constraint modifications (`CHANGE keyword`, `CHANGE url`, `CHANGE title`, `CONVERT TO`).
12 changes: 8 additions & 4 deletions includes/functions-upgrade.php
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$queries = array(
'database charset' => sprintf('ALTER DATABASE `%s` CHARACTER SET = utf8mb4 COLLATE = utf8mb4_unicode_ci;', YOURLS_DB_NAME),
'options charset' => sprintf('ALTER TABLE `%s` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;', YOURLS_DB_TABLE_OPTIONS),
'short URL varchar' => sprintf("ALTER TABLE `%s` CHANGE `keyword` `keyword` VARCHAR(100) CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin NOT NULL DEFAULT '';", YOURLS_DB_TABLE_URL),
'short URL type url' => sprintf("ALTER TABLE `%s` CHANGE `url` `url` TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin NOT NULL;", YOURLS_DB_TABLE_URL),
'short URL type title' => sprintf("ALTER TABLE `%s` CHANGE `title` `title` TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci", YOURLS_DB_TABLE_URL),
'short URL charset' => sprintf('ALTER TABLE `%s` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin;', YOURLS_DB_TABLE_URL),
'short URL table' => sprintf(
"ALTER TABLE `%s` " .
"CHANGE `keyword` `keyword` VARCHAR(100) CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin NOT NULL DEFAULT '', " .
"CHANGE `url` `url` TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin NOT NULL, " .
"CHANGE `title` `title` TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci, " .
"CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin;",
YOURLS_DB_TABLE_URL
),
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Placing the table-wide CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET clause before the column-specific CHANGE clauses is highly recommended.

In MySQL and MariaDB, when CONVERT TO is combined with column modifications in a single ALTER TABLE statement, the table-wide conversion is logically applied first, followed by the individual column modifications. Placing CONVERT TO at the beginning of the statement makes this execution order explicit and highly readable, while also preventing potential parser/compatibility issues across different database versions or SQL formatters.

        'short URL table'      => sprintf(
            "ALTER TABLE `%s` " .
            "CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin, " .
            "CHANGE `keyword` `keyword` VARCHAR(100) CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin NOT NULL DEFAULT '', " .
            "CHANGE `url` `url` TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin NOT NULL, " .
            "CHANGE `title` `title` TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;",
            YOURLS_DB_TABLE_URL
        ),

);

foreach($queries as $what => $query) {
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