Re: Re: Keep the PHP list ON TOPIC! (was: [PHP] MYSQLyog)

Jonathan Kahan wrote:

Understood. I will think harder next time before posting. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Moseby" <JMoseby@nrbindustries.com> To: "'Jochem Maas'" <jochem@iamjochem.com>; "Jonathan Kahan" <jonathan@estrintech.com> Cc: "Stut" <stuttle@gmail.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:17 AM Subject: Keep the PHP list ON TOPIC! (was: [PHP] MYSQLyog)

so that make's your totally offtopic question okay then does? I suppose you condone murder also because, heck, others have done it before, right?

And yes in my mind this is part of PHP in that PHP interacts with MYSQL and thus this has a bearing on my

ability to write

PHP programs in the future.

your mind seems rather clouded or just plain narrow. you can't connect to a mysql server using some window gui app ... there is no php there, period.

I have already written a few PHP programs without using the mysql functions which yes are a part of PHP.

technically the mysql wrapper functions are part of a php extension. there are plenty of people who run php without the mysql extension btw.

This is an email support group-I am not attempting a masters thesis here.

this is general php support list - please do come back when you have trouble with mysql_connect(), mysql_query() and the like. otherwise go get your help from the correct source, I'm sure there is plenty to be found at mysql.com for example (or webyog.com???).

Put another (kinder? gentler?) way: While the fine folks of the PHP General list might be able to make a pretty good guess as to the solution to your non-PHP problem, you would find much better, quicker, more accurate (and less prickly) advice from the MYSQLyog or MYSQL support lists. The more we can keep the topic focused on PHP here, the better the perpetual archive will be for PHP knowledge seekers going forward. JM

I've been following this thread on and off, because I found the unnecessarily hostile tone of the initial response so off-putting. But while this rather small infraction of OT code, which can in fact be defended, had been taking place, at the same time on this list an ongoing, extensive discussion of the relative merits of various databases has been going on and yet no one has said a word. My guess is that Jonathan, as new to the list, was being selectively picked on, while the guardians of the list looked the other way with respect to the other thread because some of the people involved there are long time, valuable contributors, with lots of weapons at their disposal. I could be wrong, of course. But I'm certainly not wrong to believe that the remedy for a foul mouth is soap and water.

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