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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/28/31 12:01
Gilles Ganault wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:19:03 -0500, Jerry Stuckle
> <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> It is useful for accessing databases, but I wouldn't call it the
>> "bread-and-butter" of computer programming.
>
> I mean that probably a good 80% of programming jobs, especially LAMP
> apps, revolve around creating, reading, updating records, so I
> expected a couple of tools to have become standard.
>
I haven't found that to necessarily be the case. It all depends on what
you're doing. Some sites I have are quite heavy on DB access; others
don't do much at all.
> Do PHP developpers all rewrite their eg. MySQL routines when they need
> to handle DB tasks?
>
Sure. I encapsulate my DB access in classes. It doesn't take long,
then the pages are quite easy.
>> And since a general purpose application won't work, you need something
>> specific, anyway.
>
> But precisely, this need comes up often, so it was the opportunity to
> see what's available instead of copy/pasting the same type of code
> again and again.
>
I find it faster to write from scratch than try to modify something else
to make it work.
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