Re: Posting a variable

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 10:53 -0700, siavash1979@telus.net wrote: > Quoting Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com>: > > > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:59 -0700, siavash1979@telus.net wrote: > > > 1- your mysql query statement is better to have a WHERE part too. > > > 2- I would use mysql_fetch_row instead of mysql_fetch_assoc > > > > Ummm, why would you want to reduce clarity and maintainability by using > > mysql_fetch_row()? > > hmmm, I just remember in my php class a while back, my teacher didn't even > bother teaching us about mysql_fetch_assoc, and when a student asked about it, > he said don't bother using it, just use mysql_fetch_row so I ended up using this > function ever since. I'm guessing he was wrong?? It's a terrible idea-- to grok the code you need to keep referring back to the query itself so that you can remember what index maps to what field. I guess that's not so much a problem if you export the row values to variables, but then again, why do in userspace what the mysql_fetch_assoc() function readily does for you in engine space? :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'