Re: [PHP-DEV] Advice on design issues (long)...

2002-03-25 Thread l0t3k
John Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I have always wondered, how do you pronounce L0t3k? actually low-tech. most days i dream of woodworking g Seriously, if you are duplicating Metabase's effort, but in C, why not work with the Manuel

Re: [PHP-DEV] Advice on design issues (long)...

2002-03-25 Thread l0t3k
Lukas Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 008a01c1d2fb$952b4630$4d00a8c0@vandal">news:008a01c1d2fb$952b4630$4d00a8c0@vandal... There is currently an effort underway to merge Metabase with PEAR DB. I have just commited the first code into the pear cvs (package is called MDB for now). The

Re: [PHP-DEV] Advice on design issues (long)...

2002-03-23 Thread John Lim
L0t3k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... im looking for opinions on two OOP related design issues for code im targeting to PHP5. (2) im working on a database access abstraction, again inspired by Java and JDBC (MySQL driver is written and works,

RE: [PHP-DEV] Advice on design issues (long)...

2002-03-23 Thread Lukas Smith
(2) im working on a database access abstraction, again inspired by Java and JDBC (MySQL driver is written and works, BTW). in Java you have the Resultset.getXXX methods which gets the value of a given column as a particular type. Java of course is strongly typed, whereas PHP is not. Is it

Re: [PHP-DEV] Advice wanted on function arguments

2002-01-05 Thread Markus Fischer
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 02:10:17PM -0600, Brian Foddy wrote : 2. Overload the function arguments and check which type of arg is being passed. Just accept a ZVAL and do your appropriate conversion later on. Questions... 2. How difficult / successful is it to test the arg type

Re: [PHP-DEV] Advice wanted on function arguments

2002-01-05 Thread Andi Gutmans
Just be aware that POST/GET/COOKIE data is always saved as a string. So if someone sends you 2 it'll be the string 2. If the arguments to your function won't originate from the above but are written by the developer then overloading will work well. If not you might want to consider splitting

RE: [PHP-DEV] advice

2001-03-19 Thread Marc Boeren
Hi If there aren't any guides, then some sample code would be much appreciated :) I can give you some samples for creating an object and adding members, but I haven't added any member functions, but this shouldn't be more difficult, I feel... if (object_init(return_value) != SUCCESS) {