Re: [nyphp-talk] naming identifiers

2009-08-31 Thread Michael Southwell
Daniel Convissor wrote: PHP code. Most importantly, if you name everything "id," then you have to explicitly spell out your JOIN statements in an ON clause SELECT product_name, vendor_name FROM product JOIN vendor ON (vendor.id = product.vendor_id) When it's so much easier to take advantage o

Re: [nyphp-talk] naming identifiers

2009-08-31 Thread Daniel Convissor
Folks: Folks: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 06:06:22PM -0700, Kristina D. H. Anderson wrote: > For instance imagine pulling out the contents of ten tables through ten > queries in one script, and all the ID fields are named, id. So true. Using "id" as the primary keys means you need to make aliases

Re: [nyphp-talk] naming identifiers

2009-08-31 Thread Kristina D. H. Anderson
Bev, Essentially the thinking is that whenever you're processing code that involves a lot of tables or a lot of queries (and returned results), you end up with a bucketload of things named 'id' to handle. For instance imagine pulling out the contents of ten tables through ten queries in one

Re: [nyphp-talk] Magento Commerce Experience

2009-08-31 Thread Donald J. Organ IV
When i do $myOrder->save(); it seems to be taking all the values that I just set and setting them back. - Original Message - From: "Chuck Reeves" To: "NYPHP Talk" Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 3:49:35 PM Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] Magento Commerce Experience be sure to call the

Re: [nyphp-talk] Magento Commerce Experience

2009-08-31 Thread Mona Borham
> > Yeah what exactlly you wanna know? > > Mona Borham > Web Developer > > > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Chuck Reeves wrote: > >> be sure to call the save method after you call the set. >> >> ex >> $myOrder= Mage::getModel('sales/order'); >> $myOrder->load($orderId); >> $myOrder->setSta

Re: [nyphp-talk] Magento Commerce Experience

2009-08-31 Thread Mona Borham
Yeah what exactlly you wanna know? Mona Borham Web Developer On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Chuck Reeves wrote: > be sure to call the save method after you call the set. > > ex > $myOrder= Mage::getModel('sales/order'); > $myOrder->load($orderId); > $myOrder->setState(Mage_Sales_Model_Or

Re: [nyphp-talk] Magento Commerce Experience

2009-08-31 Thread Chuck Reeves
be sure to call the save method after you call the set. ex $myOrder= Mage::getModel('sales/order'); $myOrder->load($orderId); $myOrder->setState(Mage_Sales_Model_Order::STATE_PROCESSING, true, 'Order Processing Started '); //any other set method will work here $myOrder->save(); Thank You Chuc

Re: [nyphp-talk] Magento Commerce Experience

2009-08-31 Thread Donald J. Organ IV
Yes I've already developed a module that provides alternate code for built-in code...but the problem I am having is that I am trying to update the totals, grand totals, tax totals, for orders and quotes but it seems like i set the value inside of one object..then inside another object I try to g

Re: [nyphp-talk] Magento Commerce Experience

2009-08-31 Thread Jake McGraw
It has a steep learning curve and can be very slow at times. That considered, it is designed in an incredibly modular manner, so you can pretty much provide an alternate module for any built-in code, so, it's highly customizable. It has one of the organized code bases I've ever seen. - jake On Mo

[nyphp-talk] Magento Commerce Experience

2009-08-31 Thread Donald J. Organ IV
Does anyone on the list have experience with Magento Commerce http://www.magentocommerce.com ___ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php

Re: [nyphp-talk] Short Tags deprecated?

2009-08-31 Thread Paul A Houle
Hans Zaunere wrote: Mine does - they aren't "global" but scoped only for that template. When an object is pushed in, it's adapted/wrapped with an object that is designed specifically for output in whatever type of template I'm dealing with. That could work well, but I do have some fear

Re: [nyphp-talk] Need help understanding NULL

2009-08-31 Thread sequethin
Late to this party, but something I find useful wrt to NULL is that php's isset() will return FALSE if a variable is NULL. It would return TRUE if the same variable was set to 0 or empty string. --Mike H PS sorry for the top post my blackberry is being a PITA --Original Message-- From:

Re: [nyphp-talk] Short Tags deprecated?

2009-08-31 Thread Hans Zaunere
> > Yeah something like this could be handy, certainly. I typically push/adapt > > an object into the template which is property overloaded. Then something > > like: > > > > FirstName?> > > I'm afraid that this is getting us back to magic_quotes_gpc: Negative - magic_* is global type behavior t

Re: [nyphp-talk] Short Tags deprecated?

2009-08-31 Thread Paul A Houle
Hans Zaunere wrote: Yeah something like this could be handy, certainly. I typically push/adapt an object into the template which is property overloaded. Then something like: FirstName?> I'm afraid that this is getting us back to magic_quotes_gpc: because now I might want to write $

Re: [nyphp-talk] naming identifiers

2009-08-31 Thread li...@nopersonal.info
Kristina D. H. Anderson wrote: > > ...and also to never use just "id" for the primary key field name. > Hi Kristina, I'm probably going OT when I shouldn't, but I'm so glad you mentioned that because I was just wondering about it yesterday. I started out using "id" because it was easy when I n

Re: [nyphp-talk] naming identifiers

2009-08-31 Thread Kristina D. H. Anderson
I was trained from the get-go back when I was using Access and SQL Server in the 90s to never, ever use reserved words for table or field names...and also to never use just "id" for the primary key field name. I'm wondering why both phpMyAdmin and a number of the boilerplate PHP5 frameworks' da

Re: [nyphp-talk] OOP, Frameworks, ONLAMP, and NYPHP

2009-08-31 Thread Hans Zaunere
Good morning, > > So Bev, you taking the lead? > > > > Leam > > Hi Leam, > > I'm not sure. I sent an email to Hans saying I'd be happy to help in > whatever capacity I can, so I'm waiting hear back from him. Sorry, I need to call roto router on my inbox... > Do you want to help too? If so, I t

Re: [nyphp-talk] OOP, Frameworks, ONLAMP, and NYPHP

2009-08-31 Thread li...@nopersonal.info
Leam Hall wrote: > So Bev, you taking the lead? > > Leam Hi Leam, I'm not sure. I sent an email to Hans saying I'd be happy to help in whatever capacity I can, so I'm waiting hear back from him. Do you want to help too? If so, I think we're supposed to discuss things over on the Org list. Bev

Re: [nyphp-talk] OOP, Frameworks, ONLAMP, and NYPHP

2009-08-31 Thread Leam Hall
So Bev, you taking the lead? Leam li...@nopersonal.info wrote: Hans, this sounds great. Your other email just came in, so I'm going to sign up for the Org list and then I'll read through what you sent. Regards, Bev ___ New York PHP User Group Commu