Posted by christopherpriest on 01/17/07 22:22

I have taken over a php web site. Once you login you are given six menu
choices. Each option is or can be independant of the others. They each
modify the same database but in different ways.

On clicking the menu buttons the program calls php functions to do the
action. Thus the user stays inside a large program.

I was expecting the menu to provide links rather than function calls.
1) Is there a reason to stay inside a large program through function
calls rather than linking to separate pages?

2) Am I correct that providing a <a href=... link would isolate the
functionality and call a new program?

The current program is spagettii code and somewhat buggy. There are
side effects that depend on what function was called before. I am
hoping that passing the hidden input parameters is all the connectivity
I need.

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