Re: Your opinion needed

IMO Nothing beats a good text editor with PHP colour coding. For this I use EditPlus which is perfectly good enough for my needs. Think of it like this - is cruise control REALLY all that necessary? > Ryan, > > My experience with these types of auto code writers are that they are > great when it is prototype write quickly situations but in the long > term you need to know what you code is really doing. > > > Timothy Hitchens (HiTCHO) > Web Application Consulting > e-mail: tim@hitcho.com.au > > Thursday, May 15, 2003, 7:13:31 PM, you wrote: > > RA> Hi, > RA> I have just started working with Dreamweaver MX -> PHP/MySql and > need your RA> opinion. > RA> The advanage of using DWMX with PHP/MySql is of course speed, I can > write RA> scripts to insert/delete/edit etc in seconds and they execute > perfectly with RA> or without magic_quotes or globals, this would > normally take me an hour or RA> more, those headaches are taken away > from me *BUT* > RA> for every little operation (insert/delete etc) it writes around > double or RA> more of what I would normally write (bloatware...?) > > RA> My question is....do you think it is worth it? or should i go back > to RA> writing everything by hand in its codeview/notepad/some editor?? > > RA> Most of you guys are more experienced than me in PHP so.....your > opinion RA> needed. > > RA> To give you an example of what i mean here is the code that was > generated RA> for me to do a simple insert into 2 fields of a table, > the database/php etc RA> is on my local win2000 machine, not on the > web. > > RA> <?php require_once('Connections/test.php'); ?> > RA> <?php > RA> function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = > "", RA> $theNotDefinedValue = "") > RA> { > RA> $theValue = (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? addslashes($theValue) : > $theValue; > > RA> switch ($theType) { > RA> case "text": > RA> $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . > RA> "'" : > "NULL"; RA> break; > RA> case "long": > RA> case "int": > RA> $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : "NULL"; > RA> break; > RA> case "double": > RA> $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . > RA> doubleval($theValue) . > "'" : RA> "NULL"; > RA> break; > RA> case "date": > RA> $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . > RA> "'" : > "NULL"; RA> break; > RA> case "defined": > RA> $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : > RA> $theNotDefinedValue; > RA> break; > RA> } > RA> return $theValue; > RA> } > > RA> $editFormAction = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['PHP_SELF']; > RA> if (isset($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['QUERY_STRING'])) { > RA> $editFormAction .= "?" . $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['QUERY_STRING']; > RA> } > > RA> if ((isset($HTTP_POST_VARS["MM_insert"])) && > ($HTTP_POST_VARS["MM_insert"] RA> == "form1")) { > RA> $insertSQL = sprintf("INSERT INTO countries (country_code, > country_name) RA> VALUES (%s, %s)", > RA> > GetSQLValueString($HTTP_POST_VARS['country_code'], RA> "text"), > RA> > GetSQLValueString($HTTP_POST_VARS['country_name'], RA> "text")); > > RA> mysql_select_db($database_test, $test); > RA> $Result1 = mysql_query($insertSQL, $test) or die(mysql_error()); > > RA> $insertGoTo = "countries.php"; > RA> if (isset($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['QUERY_STRING'])) { > RA> $insertGoTo .= (strpos($insertGoTo, '?')) ? "&" : > RA> "?"; > RA> $insertGoTo .= $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['QUERY_STRING']; > RA> } > RA> header(sprintf("Location: %s", $insertGoTo)); > RA> } > ?>> > > RA> Kindly reply. > > RA> Cheers, > RA> -Ryan. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Randum Ian ian@randumian.co.uk DancePortalGlobal Webmaster http://www.danceportalglobal.com