Re: Curl with asp pages....

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:08 AM, <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote: > >> There is a slight difference in how ASP handles multiple form fields >> that share the same name (as well as SELECT MULTIPLE lists) such that >> ASP does not need (and should not use) square brackets in field names >> the way PHP does. > > Alas, not only doesn't it need them, it CANNOT use them, so you are stuck if you want to > do something such as: > > name="foo[1]" value="17" > name="foo[5]" value="47" > name="foo[17]" value="32" > > I was quite disappointed when I found out that ASP simply could not maintain a simple key-value > pairing without jumping through hoops... Having worked in PHP long enough to realize the value of what you are talking about, I can see a use for it. It still seems odd to me, though. :-) > It made for a whole 'nother verse in my "Microsoft Sucks" song strewn throughout > the code comments of that ASP project. LOL > Another verse was "Boolean expressions don't short-circuit" > :-) Yeah, that got me for a while when I first started working in ASP after PHP and JavaScript. What a pain. > Ah, and "Can't moveFirst in an empty record set" was another. Well, I got used to checking for EOF and/or BOF before trying to move around. Once I got used to it, I didn't find it that big of a deal. For those accustomed to PHP, there are a couple methods on the recordset object that will make things more familiar. One implodes the recordset with cell and row delimiters that are useful for packing the data into a CSV (providing that a value doesn't have commas or double quotes that need escaped); the other turns the recordset into a multi-dimensional array. As I recall, though, the indexes are "reversed". > Sadly, the song is lost as I failed to make a copy of that codebase before I moved on to > another task. Sadly? Are you really pining for it? :-) Andrew