A Real PHP problem for a change...

What a plesant thing to open my email this morning and find 44 emails (30 or so of which) were some lame argument on SPAM and some guy trying to make money. Sell your cart, don't buy his cart whatever, I would just warn that the web was designed as an "information superhighway" and although retail application has its place it is certainly not the do all or end all to the web. (Many e-tailers are finding this out the hard way now aren't they?) Either way, I was hoping we'd all be comuter professionals on this list and have learned a long time ago that the best way to end long and complicated arguments online was to simply stop arguing. This works especially best on those huge chain letters where every single person replies "take me off this list" everytime they receive a new chain mail. That said, (Now on to actual PHP) I've noticed (in my own scripting) and a few other problems posted here quite a bit of confusion with PHP's single ' and double " quotes. Reading the material I was led to believe that ' ' outputs exactly what is in the quotes and " " outputs variables and strings (etc..) Thus I become radically confused by this recent comment to use '"$uname"'. And furthermore the solutions to one of my MySql query problems being adding single quotes ' ' to all the variables. Now by my understanding, thats not supposed to work. However, being PHP what it is.. I wasn't suprised. (There's some open-source commentary for ya'.) Perhaps I am now thinking, these quotes have diffrent meanings when applied in MySql queries, and perhaps other DB types. (I haven't really been paying attention to any other database tytpe fodder.) And furthermore, does thje function of the ' and " change in other commands? I could really use a complete description on this. Perhaps a link to some long overdue resource I should have read months ago before I designed my current project? The Happy Columnist, -Jonathan Underfoot Underfoot Records http://www.underfoot.cc/ PS: I'm avalible to write articles for a variety of periodicals. ;) Sorry for the encyclopedia. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Brett" <SBrett@e-mis.com> To: "php-db@lists. php. net (E-mail)" <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 8:25 AM Subject: FW: [PHP-DB] Robust OO Shopping Cart 4 sale - oh please .... > i just thought i'd share some more of mr st jean's comments .... > > last post on this topic. promise. > > Steve > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rick St Jean [mailto:rstjean@internet.look.ca] > > Sent: 10 April 2001 16:15 > > To: Steve Brett > > Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Robust OO Shopping Cart 4 sale - oh please .... > > > > > > At 12:40 PM 4/10/01 +0100, Steve Brett wrote: > > >the wonderful thing about open source is that generally you > > are speaking to > > >people that are FAR more qualified and FAR cleverer. > > What a load of garbage . The only think that you are dealing > > with is a > > bunch of freeloaders, > > who don't want to pay for something. Some developers are > > more clever but > > most of the are > > just cheap. You clearly haven't worked in a commercial > > atmosphere where > > you have to > > support users. > > > > >you remind me a lot of someone (and i can name a lot of > > developers) who has > > >something and is convinced that they are immediately > > superior because of > > >this 'something' that they have. > > You obviously didn't check out the links, and you clearly > > have no idea what > > you are talking about. > > I guess it makes things worse that you are ignorant and proud > > of it. Don't > > knock what I am talking > > about till you see it. I checked the stuff out there and I > > have searched > > long and hard. I suggest you > > do the same before you shoot off comments. > > > > >don't apologise. as i will not (as requested in your ealier mail). > > > > > >open source needs to be kept free of people like yourself. > > otherwise nothing > > >will ever change. > > Well I am glad that you think that you are better, I > > especially like you > > childish remark. > > I can see that you still have not read anything properly. I > > said that I > > was part of the movement > > already, and making changes. > > > > > > >Steve > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Rick St Jean [mailto:rstjean@internet.look.ca] > > > > Sent: 10 April 2001 10:09 > > > > To: php-db@lists.php.net > > > > Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] Robust OO Shopping Cart 4 sale - oh boy > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I have to apologize for how harsh that email was. I am not > > > > knocking the > > > > open source movement. I am a part of it, and > > > > I think that it is great. It drives me nuts when I have to > > > > buy some new > > > > software, and there are times when I will use something > > > > that is free instead. > > > > > > > > My points simply are: > > > > > > > > 1. open source is great. > > > > 2. open source is not always better. > > > > 3. paid products are not always better. > > > > 4. right now, php lacks what I would call a good e-commerce > > > > product. They > > > > have many products that will do. but nothing is good or > > outstanding. > > > > 5. it is 5 in the morning ... I can't sleep and I am cranky. > > > > 6. I guess everyone needs to do what is best for them. > > > > > > > > Rick > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > > > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > > > > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > > > > ########################################################## > > # Rick St Jean, > > # rstjean@internet.look.ca > > # President of Design Shark, > > # http://www.designshark.com/, > > http://www.phpmailer.com/ > > # Quick Contact: > > http://www.designshark.com/messaging.ihtml > > # Tel: 905-684-2952 > > ########################################################## > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >