Re: Function renaming. First attempt at defining some rules.

>A way to do this is to ask every maintainer of an extention to make a list >of the extension he supports. That way it would cost much less than 9 >hours for a person. I'd be happy to do this for the mcrypt extension, >which needs bug fixing anyhow :) Sounds like a good way of doing it - and if not a maintainer, then at least the person doing the job needs to have a thorough working knowledge of the functions. I've just been looking at the function list and have been shocked at how little of PHP I use. I've spent the last hour trying to do mysql (just the function names - not even begun to thing about order of parameters yet). It's hard work - about 2 minutes per function! Here's what I think obeys the rules from my earlier email (but maybe not!). I may have got the wrong idea as to what some of the functions I haven't used before do, so there may be big cockups in there. The main thing I noticed was the horrendous amount of unlearning we need to do, but we should bear in mind that of all the people who will ever use php, most of them have never even heard of it yet. mysql_affected_rows -> mysql_[get]affectedrows mysql_close -> mysql_close mysql_connect -> mysql_connect mysql_create_db -> mysql_create mysql_data_seek -> mysql_seekdata mysql_db_query -> mysql_query (note 1) mysql_drop_db -> mysql_drop mysql_errno -> mysql_[get]errornumber mysql_error -> mysql_[get]error[message] mysql_escape_string -> mysql_escapestring mysql_fetch_array -> mysql_[get]result (note 2) mysql_fetch_assoc -> mysql_[get]result (note 2) mysql_fetch_field -> mysql_[get]field mysql_fetch_lengths -> mysql_[get]result[field]lengths mysql_fetch_object -> mysql_[get]result (note 2) mysql_fetch_row -> mysql_[get]result (note 2) mysql_field_flags -> mysql_[get]fieldflags mysql_field_len -> mysql_[get]result[field]length mysql_field_name -> mysql_[get]result[field]name mysql_field_seek -> mysql_seekfield mysql_field_table -> mysql_[get]result[field]table mysql_field_type -> mysql_[get]result[field]type mysql_free_result -> mysql_free[result] mysql_insert_id -> mysql_[get]insertid mysql_list_dbs -> mysql_getdatabases mysql_list_fields -> mysql_getfields mysql_list_tables -> mysql_gettables mysql_num_fields -> mysql_countresultfields (or maybe getresultfieldcount) mysql_num_rows -> mysql_countresultrows (or maybe getresultrowcount) mysql_pconnect -> mysql_connect (note 3) mysql_query -> mysql_query mysql_result -> mysql_[get]resultfield mysql_select_db -> mysql_select 1. the database name is passed in as an optional extra arg to mysql_query 2. was fetch_array/object - needs optional arg for result type, or alternatively to be called mysql_getresultarray) 3. pconnect is achieved by passing in a database name as an optional extra parameter to mysql_connect Cheers goes back to hide behind the rock again -- Phil Driscoll Dial Solutions +44 (0)113 294 5112 http://www.dialsolutions.com http://www.dtonline.org