php-general Digest 14 Dec 2010 10:50:58 -0000 Issue 7086

2010-12-14 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 14 Dec 2010 10:50:58 - Issue 7086 Topics (messages 310007 through 310021): Re: array_multisort into Natural order? 310007 by: Jim Lucas 310008 by: George Langley 310021 by: Richard Quadling Re: Use PHP the way God intended... 310009 by:

php-general Digest 14 Dec 2010 23:45:51 -0000 Issue 7087

2010-12-14 Thread php-general-digest-help
php-general Digest 14 Dec 2010 23:45:51 - Issue 7087 Topics (messages 310022 through 310038): Re: array_multisort into Natural order? 310022 by: Richard Quadling Re: good, popular? 310023 by: Sam Smith 310026 by: Nathan Rixham 310027 by: David Hutto

Re: [PHP] array_multisort into Natural order?

2010-12-14 Thread Richard Quadling
On 13 December 2010 19:59, George Langley george.lang...@shaw.ca wrote: Hi all. Can use natsort($array1) to sort a single array of filenames into a natural alphanumeric order - 1.php, 2.php, 5.php, 10.php, 20.php, etc. But using array_multisort($array1, $array2, $array3) doesn't offer a

Re: [PHP] array_multisort into Natural order?

2010-12-14 Thread Richard Quadling
On 14 December 2010 10:50, Richard Quadling rquadl...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 December 2010 19:59, George Langley george.lang...@shaw.ca wrote: Hi all. Can use natsort($array1) to sort a single array of filenames into a natural alphanumeric order - 1.php, 2.php, 5.php, 10.php, 20.php, etc. But

[PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread Sam Smith
Searching for PHP CRUD in hopes of learning the best way to access databases and to use PEAR or what I came across PDO. I want to know the communities opinion of PDO: everyone uses it or no one uses it or it's great or what? Thanks

RE: [PHP] Use PHP the way God intended...

2010-12-14 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Nah, if he'd read it backwards, you'd be able to hear MePHPistoPHPeles say, Rasmus is the Penguin. (Yes, you have to be dang old to get that obscure reference. ;-) Pshaw, not *that* old! I get the reference, and I'm only . . . oh, damn. :( [/snip] Uhhyeah -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread David Hutto
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Sam Smith a...@itab.com wrote: Searching for PHP CRUD in hopes of learning the best way to access databases and to use PEAR or what I came across PDO. I want to know the communities opinion of PDO: everyone uses it or no one uses it or it's great or what? In

Re: [PHP] Use PHP the way God intended...

2010-12-14 Thread Daniel Brown
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:29, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote: I must have been under a rock when the reference came out :| Or you may have still been in shock from hearing that Paul was dead. -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager Documentation, Webmaster Teams

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread Richard Quadling
On 14 December 2010 11:10, Sam Smith a...@itab.com wrote: Searching for PHP CRUD in hopes of learning the best way to access databases and to use PEAR or what I came across PDO. I want to know the communities opinion of PDO: everyone uses it or no one uses it or it's great or what? Thanks

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread David Hutto
In other words, in ten years from now, even the advisors you get today will rethink their answers with 20/20/hindsight, and not think about your ignorance of technology, but their own. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Use PHP the way God intended...

2010-12-14 Thread Paul M Foster
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:15:59AM -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:29, Robert Cummings rob...@interjinn.com wrote: I must have been under a rock when the reference came out :| Or you may have still been in shock from hearing that Paul was dead. Er... that's Paul

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread Richard Quadling
On 14 December 2010 15:45, David Hutto smokefl...@gmail.com wrote: From my experience with several languages, once you know the basics, even if you do re-invent the 'wheel', so did firestone,michelin, and goodyear, and they're not complaining. And you'll feel better for reinventing, than using

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread la...@garfieldtech.com
I'm the DB maintainer for Drupal 7, and we rebuilt our entire DB layer on top of PDO. It's a rather nice API, although as others have noted it does not abstract away SQL entirely; it abstracts the API calls you need to use to get to SQL. We then built a layer on top of that which does

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread Adam Richardson
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Sam Smith a...@itab.com wrote: Searching for PHP CRUD in hopes of learning the best way to access databases and to use PEAR or what I came across PDO. I want to know the communities opinion of PDO: everyone uses it or no one uses it or it's great or what?

Re: [PHP] Use PHP the way God intended...

2010-12-14 Thread David Harkness
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.comwrote: Er... that's Paul McCartney, not Paul Foster. Whew! Paul McCartney's dead?? But the Beatles just released a ton of albums on iTunes! So sad...

Re: [PHP] Use PHP the way God intended...

2010-12-14 Thread Daniel Brown
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:43, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Er... that's Paul McCartney, not Paul Foster. Whew! HA! Sorry to make your heart jump. ;-P -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager Documentation, Webmaster Teams http://www.php.net/ -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread Lester Caine
la...@garfieldtech.com wrote: I'm the DB maintainer for Drupal 7, and we rebuilt our entire DB layer on top of PDO. It's a rather nice API, although as others have noted it does not abstract away SQL entirely; it abstracts the API calls you need to use to get to SQL. We then built a layer on

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread Govinda
In previous experience with questions such as these, you will get several types of individual responses to usages of the software. Some good, some bad, depending on the experience level of the commenter with both the language and the code in question. It's a combination of your current

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread Paul M Foster
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 03:10:56AM -0800, Sam Smith wrote: Searching for PHP CRUD in hopes of learning the best way to access databases and to use PEAR or what I came across PDO. I want to know the communities opinion of PDO: everyone uses it or no one uses it or it's great or what? I use

Re: [PHP] PDO: good, popular?

2010-12-14 Thread Larry Garfield
On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 1:02:33 pm Lester Caine wrote: la...@garfieldtech.com wrote: I'm the DB maintainer for Drupal 7, and we rebuilt our entire DB layer on top of PDO. It's a rather nice API, although as others have noted it does not abstract away SQL entirely; it abstracts the