Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-16 Thread Robert Cummings
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 22:24, Christopher Jordan wrote: I think you've hit the nail on the head there, but I'm sorta glad the subject's come up since I'm learning about a concept that I've not used before. Is it mostly used for purposes of scalability? It seems like it might be that way.

Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-15 Thread Christopher Jordan
Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 21:34, Christopher Jordan wrote: Rob, Thanks for responding. :) I have more questions. I hope that's okay. :) *lol* No problem :) Thanks! :) You said: Share nothing refers to the PHP philosophy of not tying any data

Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-14 Thread Christopher Jordan
Jochem, Thanks so much for your advice. In the end, I managed to find why that little EZSql tool wasn't working for me, and thus what I'm *really* putting into the session variable is an array. I understand also that each user would get a copy of the same session variables, but this is for a

Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-14 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 20:50, Christopher Jordan wrote: When you said: ...the strength and simplicity of PHP stem from the decision to make/keep PHP a 'share nothing' architecture. What did you mean, by that? I've not heard of this share nothing idea. What is the idea of share

Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-14 Thread Christopher Jordan
Rob, Thanks for responding. :) I have more questions. I hope that's okay. :) You said: Share nothing refers to the PHP philosophy of not tying any data sharing system to the engine itself. In this way developers are free to create applications in such a way that if they need more power, they

Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-14 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 21:34, Christopher Jordan wrote: Rob, Thanks for responding. :) I have more questions. I hope that's okay. :) *lol* No problem :) You said: Share nothing refers to the PHP philosophy of not tying any data sharing system to the engine itself. In this way

Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-13 Thread Jochem Maas
CF has an application scope - PHP does not. the strength and simplicity of PHP stem from the decision to make/keep PHP a share nothing architecture. with regard to shoving stuff in the SESSION superglobal: 1. it not shared between requests by different users - meaning that the SQL query you

Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-12 Thread Eric Butera
On 12/11/05, Christopher Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I'm a ColdFusion developer, but I'm branching out into PHP because alot of my smaller clients don't want to pay for CF. Anyway, a bit of background: I've got a page that does a search on one of my tables. I'm

[PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-11 Thread Christopher Jordan
Hi folks, I'm a ColdFusion developer, but I'm branching out into PHP because alot of my smaller clients don't want to pay for CF. Anyway, a bit of background: I've got a page that does a search on one of my tables. I'm using Justin Vincent's ezSQL

Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-11 Thread Derek Williams
Not sure if I can give a good answer, but try doing a var_dump on $_SESSION[Search Result] and see what you get. I suspect that it is null. If that's the case then track down where it is getting assigned. It should look something like $_SESSION[SearchResult] = $users. Christopher Jordan