Re: A Review Request

At 10:55 PM +0200 5/18/11, Peter Lind wrote:

On 18 May 2011 22:34, tedd <tedd@sperling.com> wrote:

At 3:31 PM -0400 5/18/11, Joshua Kehn wrote:

On May 18, 2011, at 3:22 PM, tedd wrote:

I am considering providing PHP code to the general public via my website This is my first attempt: <http://sperling.com/php/authorization/> What do you people think?

Good initiative. One thing though: Please do not EVER suggest that people copy/paste your code. Do NOT provide a nice option for copying it or suggest that "it will work if you just copy this and add a suffix". Plenty of people will mess things up somehow, you'll discover a bug somewhere, etc. etc. Copypasted code is one of the worst things the web has done. So please don't add to it :) Regards Peter

Peter: Thanks, but the point here *is* to get people involved using PHP. The code I've placed in the "Copy/Paste" sections will work "as-is" *IF* the users follow directions. I've tested it and it does work. Granted, for over a dozen years I've provided various "code" to users and have more than my share of stories to tell of how they don't follow directions -- just take a look at my "Web Tips" pages. However, I would have greatly appreciated someone showing me what an include was back in 1998. It could have saved me a lot of trouble. This is just one way to give-back. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com/