>What I have noticed about PHP coders who do not know databases is that they
>think they have to write more than they really need to in PHP code, because
they
>don't take good advantage of SQL functions. For instance, one fellow was
>bragging to me about the neat sorting routines he had just written and I
just said
>Why? -- pass the order by clause to the database and let it do the sorting
and
>return your records already sorted, just display them.... So keep that
and other
>RBase techniques for handling data in mind as you help them, you can
probably
>save them some amount of coding.
This is some of the stuff that we are looking to learn from each other. I'll
keep this in mind.
Thanks for everyone that replied here and in person.
Jenna
