Thanks Lee, Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with c_objects and how they might work in my case. Would it be possible to give me a brief example that I could then adapt and test.
Thanks again, Mike -----Original Message----- From: 4D_Tech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee Hinde Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2016 12:59 PM To: 4D iNug Technical <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Automatic Variable Assignment and Web Get Variables - Bad usage of pointer or pointer to an unknown variable Justin Leavens did a summit presentation that showed c_objects were much faster than arrays for searching. Might be worth a test. On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Mike McCall <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks so much Chip for the suggestion, > > That thought also crossed my mind but unfortunately with the silly > number of variables we currently have, over 20,000 in total, my > initial tests suggested that it could seriously affect performance to > go with that approach. > > I'd really prefer not to have to do a complete rewrite of how we > handle form fields since that would be very time consuming. > > Thanks again and definitely let me know if you or anyone else has any > other idea. > > Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: 4D_Tech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chip > Scheide > Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2016 12:38 PM > To: 4D iNug Technical <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Automatic Variable Assignment and Web Get Variables - Bad > usage of pointer or pointer to an unknown variable > > I do NO web work so take this idea with that in mind > > Instead of : > On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 19:58:16 +0000, Mike McCall wrote: > > Else > > $p:=Get pointer(arr_Web_Field_Name{$i}) > > $p->:=arr_Web_Field_Value{$i} > > End case > > if (find in array($arr_Legal_Variable_Names;arr_Web_Field_Name{$i})>0) > $p:=Get pointer(arr_Web_Field_Name{$i}) > $p->:=arr_Web_Field_Value{$i} > else > `do nasty things since someone tried to hack your server end if > > Where arr_Legal_Variable_Names > is an array of valid variable names and any value NOT in this array is > an error Chip > > ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
