David -- exactly. With the deadlines I face and pressure from clients to "get things done now", it's unfortunate that I rarely have time to do anything the "best way possible"...there's always a better way to do it but the client won't wait while I sit there and toy with it for another week. This pressure leads me to have to hack things together any way I can find that works effectively, and also leads me, when I start feeling extreme time pressure, to post questions on occasion that I should have and often do figure out are easy and simple and I shouldn't have posted (luckily I think this is not one of those silly ones).
I would dearly love to modify the database structure as the previous replier suggested, but doing that at a late stage of the game always leads to consequences of some sort. I'm thinking we should start a thread about work/life balance on here :) I'd do it except I won't have a day off until next Sunday! -- Kristina > Kristina Anderson wrote: > > > > If anyone has any suggestions, thanks! > > > > -- Kristina > > > > I'd go down the path you thought about. I find doing things in code often > easier and less complex than crafting some tricked out SQL. SQL may be faster > than code, but that is just my guess. If it is that shortly before deploying > I'd stick with something that works and that you understand. You do not have > the time left to try things and evaluate the one approach over the other over > time. And if you know what is happening then it is much easier to troubleshoot > and potentially optimize later. I rather work with code that I trust, even if > it is not the best solution on the planet. > > David > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > > ------------------- Kristina D. H. Anderson Senior Application Developer/Consultant "Building a Better Tomorrow, One Line of Code at a Time" 646-247-4987 _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
