> (sent to list -- Phil, if you want yours to the list, you might want to > resend. Have I mentioned lately I hate lists that don't reply-To by > default?)
oops, thanks for posting it! > > > Is anyone's web server really that strapped for disk space? This kind of > > compression is great for operating systems and disk controllers but is > > generally inappropriate for things like web applications. Why say "$prefs |= > > 32768" when you can say "$prefs[15] = 1"? > > Because databases don't store arrays? Another oops. Guess I'm still a C programmer. Please read "$prefs[15]" as "substr $prefs 15 1" and forget that I pretended you could assign to it. Also forget that I was using code to do this. This job will probably be done by hand, in which case the alternatives are "change the 15th character to a 1" or "add 32768". > As I said, putting the permissions into databases is more powerful, > but sometimes the above is easier to maintain than a table of permissions, > a table of users, a table of which users are in which groups, a table of > what permissions each group has, etc. It looks like it's going to come down to a matter of preference and style on this one. Personally, I prefer to keep my preferences in a database so that non-programmers can administer them. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
