Jochem, Jochem Maas wrote: > David Grant wrote: > 1. your looping a result set which involves a db connection - lots > of pontential things that could go wrong... Absolutely, and lots of lessons to learn too. > 2. its not a centralized 'solution' - code reuse is a good thing. However, what use is code reuse when you're using it only once. If you need to perform the same function again, then refactor the existing code. > 3. we should encourage people to aim a little higher? I imagine my first PHP script with a database connection probably looked much like Adrian's solution, and writing lots and lots of PHP has taught be some best practices that I now stick to. However, being told that I need to write reusable functions for iterating a resultset would've had me running off to another scripting language in a heartbeat. Tell people to aim higher, sure, but let them make their own mind up, make their own mistakes and learn from them. :) >> >> Even the longest journeys start with small steps, and asking someone new >> to PHP to separate various tiers might put them off. > > which I could spin as a positive thing - raising the lowest commom > denominator > so to speak. besides Sue was the one that came with the many-in-one > question > (i.e. how to a dynamically generate a select box AND how do I grab data > from > a DB). I'm sure you're not being elitist, but where do you place the bar? Should PHP be made a language that only the experienced can get into? That sounds like a policy that would only harm the PHP community. David -- David Grant http://www.grant.org.uk/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
