"Richard Heyes" <richardh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:481F17D3.1000508@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Your experience in the real world must be very limited > > Clearly. > > > as it is often the >> case where a customer starts off with a "simple" requirement then keeps >> expanding it as time goes by as he dreams up more things that the system >> should do for him. If at day #1 you say "these reqirements are very >> simple, therefore require nothing more than a cheap and chearful solution >> which can be thrown together in a few minutes" you end up with a system >> that is not designed to be expanded. As soon as the first enhancement >> request comes in you will find yourself on the tail of a snake. > > Alternatively you make a solution that fulfils the requirements of the > customer, without being "cheap and cheerful" and is designed well to Then surely "designed well" would include a normalised database? -- Tony Marston http://www.tonymarston.net http://www.radicore.org > accomodate future modifications, and make it resolutely clear that any > future modification may take longer since schema changes may be required. > > -- > Richard Heyes > > +----------------------------------------+ > | Access SSH with a Windows mapped drive | > | http://www.phpguru.org/sftpdrive | > +----------------------------------------+ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
