Re: [PHP] Optimizing Help

2005-06-14 Thread Jack Jackson
Jochem, I cannot believe you spent this much time helping me with this. I really appreciate it. I will go through and make ALL those changes. I am grateful. Especially the changes which cleaned up jibberish and tightened from several lines to one - really! Thank you thank you thank you! --JJ

[PHP] Optimizing Help

2005-06-13 Thread jack jackson
Hello, Recently with the help of several of you I got a script working. It's complex, I'm still new, some parts of it came from other authors and I adapted it, and generally despite the fact that it seems to work perfectly at this point, I am certain that there is bloat, repetition and simply

Re: [PHP] Optimizing Help

2005-06-13 Thread Chris Ramsay
Hey there Jackson, The first thing I would consider would be to see if you can classify the code into chunks that do a certain job, and then rewrite them as functions. I would also consider looping through arrays for repetitive jobs (lines 258 - 270 for example). Down the line you could consider

Re: [PHP] Optimizing Help

2005-06-13 Thread jack jackson
Thanks, Chris, I see what you're getting at. I'm not sure I understand what you mean about looping through the array in the area you specified- isn't that just the definitions of the vars? Or is that what you meant and I'm missing the point!!? On 6/13/05, Chris Ramsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [PHP] Optimizing Help

2005-06-13 Thread Chris Ramsay
Jackson, Yeah, what you can do is place all your form values you just got into an array, and then act on each of them in turn by looping through the array when it comes to repetitive jobs, such as the mysql_real_escape_string(trim($_POST['variable'])) part of the code I referred to earlier. You

Re: [PHP] Optimizing Help

2005-06-13 Thread Jochem Maas
jack jackson wrote: Hello, Recently with the help of several of you I got a script working. It's complex, I'm still new, some parts of it came from other authors and I adapted it, and generally despite the fact that it seems to work perfectly at this point, I am certain that there is bloat,