[PHP] class design question

2004-01-12 Thread rogue
hi there. i am working out the finishing touches on a authentication class that uses mysql to store the time of last access and some other goodies. my question is, when developing a class that uses a database, what is the best way to handle the database bit? for now i just set the connection

Re: [PHP] class design question

2004-01-12 Thread Jason Sheets
Take a look at the PEAR DB Abstraction layer, I usually store connection info in an XML or INI file and use parse_ini or PEAR Config to parse the configuration file. http://pear.php.net hi there. i am working out the finishing touches on a authentication class that uses mysql to store the

Re: [PHP] class design question

2004-01-12 Thread Justin Patrin
Jason Sheets wrote: Take a look at the PEAR DB Abstraction layer, I usually store connection info in an XML or INI file and use parse_ini or PEAR Config to parse the configuration file. http://pear.php.net hi there. i am working out the finishing touches on a authentication class that uses

RE: [PHP] class design question

2004-01-12 Thread Giz
://www.justinvincent.com/ -Original Message- From: rogue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 2:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] class design question hi there. i am working out the finishing touches on a authentication class that uses mysql to store the time

Re: [PHP] class design question

2004-01-12 Thread Kelly Hallman
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, rogue wrote: i am working out the finishing touches on a authentication class that uses mysql to store the time of last access and some other goodies. my question is, when developing a class that uses a database, what is the best way to handle the database bit? for now i

RE: [PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Joseph
Hi, Otherwise, a year down the line, you find yourself stuck with a thing that needs a small modification which will take you hours and hours and hours and probably turn your little project into spaghetti (speaking from experience). That's probably some good advice, and something for

RE: [PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread Chris W. Parker
Dan Joseph mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:18 AM said: Are there any performance differences that are noticable in a 300-400 line PHP script if you overuse classes rather than straight functions? I have no definitive answer but I would assume the answer is

RE: [PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread Chris W. Parker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:34 AM said: I'm rewriting a lot of code and have decided to use classes... I'm wondering if this would be considered bad design or not... [snip] /Sounds/ like a good idea. Are you really going to end up with an

Re: [PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Beaver
Dan Joseph mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:18 AM said: Are there any performance differences that are noticable in a 300-400 line PHP script if you overuse classes rather than straight functions? This is a loaded question. If you overuse classes, there will be

[PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread anachronism
Hello, I'm rewriting a lot of code and have decided to use classes... I'm wondering if this would be considered bad design or not... Basically in the class I have methods that perform a task, and return true on success, or false on failure. Easy enough. If it returns false however, I want to

Re: [PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread David Otton
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:33:54 -0500, you wrote: Basically in the class I have methods that perform a task, and return true on success, or false on failure. Easy enough. If it returns false however, I want to display errors for the user. The best way I can think of doing this is adding a member

Re: [PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Beaver
Dan Joseph wrote: Hi, Are there any performance differences that are noticable in a 300-400 line PHP script if you overuse classes rather than straight functions? This is a loaded question. If you overuse classes, there will be a performance hit :). However, in a 300-400 line

RE: [PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Joseph
Hi, Are there any performance differences that are noticable in a 300-400 line PHP script if you overuse classes rather than straight functions? This is a loaded question. If you overuse classes, there will be a performance hit :). However, in a 300-400 line script, you might find

RE: [PHP] Class Design Question...

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Joseph
PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Class Design Question... [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:34 AM said: I'm rewriting a lot of code and have decided to use classes... I'm wondering if this would be considered bad design