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Posted by Jochem Maas on 01/10/06 18:59
David Grant wrote:
> Jochem,
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> Jochem Maas wrote:
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>>teaching noobs to output html while (oun intended) looping thru a
>>result set is counter-productive. discuss.
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> I disagree, however, I do believe attention should be drawn to reasons
> why doing so might be considered bad practice.
1. your looping a result set which involves a db connection - lots
of pontential things that could go wrong...
2. its not a centralized 'solution' - code reuse is a good thing.
3. we should encourage people to aim a little higher?
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> 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).
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> David
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