This particular application is designed to assist someone working on data
entry, and is currently in production. She inputs 100's of mail-in reply
cards into a database using a php webpage. The first field of the form is
for the email address listed on the reply card. If the email address is
already in the database, the person doing data entry will see an image of a
red light, if the email address is not in the database the person doing data
entry will see an image of a green light. Kind of weird, true, but exactly
what she wanted. Why should the person doing data entry have to type in
email address, mailing address, first name, last name, etc. just to get an
error saying duplicate entry found? This way she can choose to replace the
record or just skip it depending on the results (red or green). The
changing image increases her productivty by decreasing time spent inputing
duplicate data.
And also is one possible answer to the question, "How do I access php from
JavaScript".
I fail to see how this is a "horrible construction". Solves a problem with
minimal input from user, quickly, and completely. How is this horrible?
Its a functional tool, that is used ever day with 0 complaints.
Horrible?
Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it
means."
Robert Zwink
http://www.zwink.net/daid.php
-----Original Message-----
From: Renze Munnik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 10:30 AM
To: Robert V. Zwink
Cc: marilyn manson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PHP] could i get a clue?
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:20:39AM -0400, Robert V. Zwink wrote:
>
> // Besides that... what if I want to do some _serious_ processing
> // instead of 'drawing' an image?
>
> Actually you just readfile an existing image, how much processing does
that
> involve? Not too much.
I didn't say that your construction doesn't work, but it's not the
way to develop your sites. By using horrible constructions you can
make 'good-working' site, but that doesn't make it a good site. You
should always avoid using such terrible constructions. I mean... why
creating an image if you never intended to do anything with images?
Just because you want to have some weird construction on your site
and you can't think of anything else, soon enough?
>
> // The popup is the same thing as I said. You just redirect to a
> // different (PHP-)page. So... nothing new!
>
> For future reference:
>
> window.location.href="myscript.php"
>
> !=
>
>
window.open('./myscript.php','mywindow','width=400,height=400,scrollbars=yes
> ')
It's the same kind of construction. You redirect the user to a completely
different page.
>
> No offense intended,
None taken... and none intended...
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