Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-29 Thread tedd
At 8:52 AM +0100 2/29/08, Zoltán Németh wrote: it's not just that, it's also a different way of thinking about your data. for example say you have a 'user' - you always have one of that ;) in procedural code you would store the properties of the user in an array or whatever, and have an include

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-29 Thread Zoltán Németh
2008. 02. 29, péntek keltezéssel 10.12-kor tedd ezt írta: At 8:52 AM +0100 2/29/08, Zoltán Németh wrote: it's not just that, it's also a different way of thinking about your data. for example say you have a 'user' - you always have one of that ;) in procedural code you would store the

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-29 Thread tedd
At 4:36 PM +0100 2/29/08, Zoltán Németh wrote: sure, all information belonging to an object is usually in a record of a db. but, you mean include('user_functions.php') automatically loads that data? based on what? a global $user_id variable? if so, I would consider that poor design... Whoa

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-29 Thread Jochem Maas
tedd schreef: At 4:36 PM +0100 2/29/08, Zoltán Németh wrote: ... I don't like the tone here -- it appears that because I'm not agreeing with you that my code is limited or of poor design -- because let me assure you it's not! So, let's just drop this -- you have your way and I have

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-29 Thread Zoltán Németh
2008. 02. 29, péntek keltezéssel 14.28-kor tedd ezt írta: At 4:36 PM +0100 2/29/08, Zoltán Németh wrote: sure, all information belonging to an object is usually in a record of a db. but, you mean include('user_functions.php') automatically loads that data? based on what? a global $user_id

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-29 Thread Ray Hauge
Zoltán Németh wrote: 2008. 02. 29, péntek keltezéssel 14.28-kor tedd ezt írta: At 4:36 PM +0100 2/29/08, Zoltán Németh wrote: sure, all information belonging to an object is usually in a record of a db. but, you mean include('user_functions.php') automatically loads that data? based on what? a

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-28 Thread Aschwin Wesselius
Zoltán Németh wrote: well, if classes are not convenient for you, then sure it would take more time but only for the first time. after that, my experience is that development time is less with classes I do use classes, but mix it with procedural code and some function libraries. But I'm a

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-28 Thread tedd
At 8:57 AM +0100 2/28/08, Zoltán Németh wrote: 2008. 02. 27, szerda keltezéssel 14.02-kor tedd ezt írta: Just about all my code was reduced to functions and all functions were placed in files according theme. My main was probably less than 50 lines of code. this is absolutely similar to

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-28 Thread Zoltán Németh
2008. 02. 28, csütörtök keltezéssel 09.12-kor tedd ezt írta: At 8:57 AM +0100 2/28/08, Zoltán Németh wrote: 2008. 02. 27, szerda keltezéssel 14.02-kor tedd ezt írta: Just about all my code was reduced to functions and all functions were placed in files according theme. My main was

[PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread skylark
Hi all, What design patterns do you usually use? -- Regards, Shelley

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 19:50 +0800, skylark wrote: What design patterns do you usually use? I am not sure that you are understanding what a design pattern is. It is not a piece of software or a thing to use, but it is a set of repeatable components that you use in whatever app you are writing.

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Richard Heyes
What design patterns do you usually use? Whatever solves the problem. Factory is quite a common one. MVC is another. -- Richard Heyes http://www.phpguru.org Free PHP and Javascript code -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread skylark
Hi guys, What design patterns do you usually use? -- Regards, Shelley

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Zoltán Németh
2008. 02. 27, szerda keltezéssel 19.50-kor skylark ezt írta: Hi guys, What design patterns do you usually use? whichever seems fit to the situation ;) for me its most often singleton, registry, factory, activerecord and you could also read the thread about these last week... greets Zoltán

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Jochem Maas
Paul Scott schreef: On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 19:50 +0800, skylark wrote: What design patterns do you usually use? I am not sure that you are understanding what a design pattern is. It is not a piece of software or a thing to use, but it is a set of repeatable components that you use in whatever

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:40 AM, David Giragosian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/27/08, Daniel Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:46 AM, skylark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, What design patterns do you usually use? This one:

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Jochem Maas
Daniel Brown schreef: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:40 AM, David Giragosian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/27/08, Daniel Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:46 AM, skylark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, What design patterns do you usually use? This one:

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Wolf
Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Brown schreef: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:40 AM, David Giragosian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/27/08, Daniel Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:46 AM, skylark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, What

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, go with the Crushed purple velvet with the pageboy sleeves, that should accentuate the colors of your hair... Purple is my favorite color, actually, but I'd appreciate it if you'd please stop peeking through my windows at

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Aschwin Wesselius
Wolf wrote: But with the pattern you can make it bigger as needed And for them really big sizes, contact Omar and see if he can use something other then tent materials... Though that flame resistant stuff might be good for those with an issue walking and catching their knickers on

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Aschwin Wesselius
Daniel Brown wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:46 AM, skylark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, What design patterns do you usually use? This one: http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1486_couture/create.php It's maybe off-topic, but I like a slightly humorous note once

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: besides the flower pattern doesn't really suit you, go with blue velvet ;-) Don't touch me there, you're not my Daddy! ;-P -- /Dan Daniel P. Brown Senior Unix Geek ? while(1) { $me = $mind--; sleep(86400); } ? --

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Ray Hauge
Richard Heyes wrote: What design patterns do you usually use? Whatever solves the problem. Factory is quite a common one. MVC is another. I have a story to kind of touch on what Jochem said about you just don't know the name yet. Just recently I was tasked with creating a new in-house

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 14:48 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: Paul Scott schreef: there seems to be some misunderstanding ... a design pattern is not a component (or anything else of substance) but merely a conceptual strategy used to tackle a problem ... ever find yourself writing code that's

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Jochem Maas
Paul Scott schreef: On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 14:48 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: Paul Scott schreef: there seems to be some misunderstanding ... a design pattern is not a component (or anything else of substance) but merely a conceptual strategy used to tackle a problem ... ever find yourself writing

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Jason Pruim
On Feb 27, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:40 AM, David Giragosian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/27/08, Daniel Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:46 AM, skylark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, What design patterns do you usually use?

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:46 AM, skylark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, What design patterns do you usually use? This one: http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1486_couture/create.php -- /Dan Daniel P. Brown Senior Unix Geek ? while(1) { $me = $mind--; sleep(86400); } ?

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Aschwin Wesselius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not going with a Scottish kilt and have some cooling breeze while showing off what you're made of? Clan-wars sometimes started with having the wrong pattern on the kilt talking about the Bloods and the Crips

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread David Giragosian
On 2/27/08, Daniel Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:46 AM, skylark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, What design patterns do you usually use? This one: http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1486_couture/create.php Somebody been thinking about wedding

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Wolf
Daniel Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:40 AM, David Giragosian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/27/08, Daniel Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:46 AM, skylark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, What design patterns do you

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Wolf
Daniel Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Aschwin Wesselius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not going with a Scottish kilt and have some cooling breeze while showing off what you're made of? Clan-wars sometimes started with having the wrong pattern on

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so now I have to ask... Where does an Irishman live that is in the middle of Polocs working in IT? Northeast Pennsylvania (USA). There's not much at all in the way of IT around here, it's mostly factories and farms. I

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 08:25 -0600, Ray Hauge wrote: There is also such a thing as too much. I heard a talk a while ago about code maintainability. The speaker mentioned a co-worker of his ran into his cube almost exhausted and proclaimed, I finally did it!. I used every one of the

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Ray Hauge
Robert Cummings wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 15:53 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: Paul Scott schreef: On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 14:48 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: Paul Scott schreef: there seems to be some misunderstanding ... a design pattern is not a component (or anything else of substance) but merely

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 10:05 -0500, Wolf wrote: Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Brown schreef: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:40 AM, David Giragosian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/27/08, Daniel Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:46 AM, skylark

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 10:42 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 10:05 -0500, Wolf wrote: Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Brown schreef: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:40 AM, David Giragosian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/27/08, Daniel Brown [EMAIL

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 15:53 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: Paul Scott schreef: On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 14:48 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: Paul Scott schreef: there seems to be some misunderstanding ... a design pattern is not a component (or anything else of substance) but merely a conceptual

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Aschwin Wesselius
Robert Cummings wrote: No, go with the Crushed purple velvet with the pageboy sleeves, that should accentuate the colors of your hair... You fools... you can't just use any old design pattern anywhere. It's really important to use the correct pattern otherwise things will just fall

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You fools... you can't just use any old design pattern anywhere. It's really important to use the correct pattern otherwise things will just fall apart. This one is more aptly suited I think:

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 10:55 -0500, Daniel Brown wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You fools... you can't just use any old design pattern anywhere. It's really important to use the correct pattern otherwise things will just fall apart. This

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, the phallus endowment fairy passed you over eh!? Sorry to hear. I was left with nothing but honesty and humility. Err humiliation. Take your pick. -- /Dan Daniel P. Brown Senior Unix Geek ? while(1) {

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely he didn't explain OOP to you... he's anti OOP :) ya; im waiting to see one of these 'simple' sites thats written strictly w/ functions and procedural code that does more than support a username and password :)

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Aschwin Wesselius
Nathan Nobbe wrote: Surely he didn't explain OOP to you... he's anti OOP :) ya; im waiting to see one of these 'simple' sites thats written strictly w/ functions and procedural code that does more than support a username and password :) -nathan I worked for a company where they maintain

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 11:08 -0500, Nathan Nobbe wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely he didn't explain OOP to you... he's anti OOP :) ya; im waiting to see one of these 'simple' sites thats written strictly w/ functions and

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Jochem Maas
Aschwin Wesselius schreef: Nathan Nobbe wrote: Surely he didn't explain OOP to you... he's anti OOP :) ya; im waiting to see one of these 'simple' sites thats written strictly w/ functions and procedural code that does more than support a username and password :) -nathan I worked for a

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Jason Pruim
On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Nathan Nobbe wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely he didn't explain OOP to you... he's anti OOP :) ya; im waiting to see one of these 'simple' sites thats written strictly w/ functions and procedural

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Aschwin Wesselius
Jochem Maas wrote: Aschwin Wesselius schreef: Nathan Nobbe wrote: Surely he didn't explain OOP to you... he's anti OOP :) ya; im waiting to see one of these 'simple' sites thats written strictly w/ functions and procedural code that does more than support a username and password :)

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 11:08 -0500, Nathan Nobbe wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Robert Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely he didn't explain OOP to you... he's anti OOP :) ya; im waiting to

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Aschwin Wesselius
Nathan Nobbe wrote: i understand designing for simplicity is key, however, things can only be kept so simple beyond reason. the more something does, the more complex it is; period. -nathan Nice touch, but what I'm most afraid of is abstraction layers. It is good to know what to abstract,

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Jason Pruim
On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Aschwin Wesselius wrote: No. Give me procedural code please. I can read that from top to bottom, it sticks on 1 flow of the processing. Downside is having some code multiple times all over the place (hence an argument for OOP). Wouldn't that be a perfect

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Jason Pruim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Aschwin Wesselius wrote: No. Give me procedural code please. I can read that from top to bottom, it sticks on 1 flow of the processing. Downside is having some code multiple times

RES: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Thiago Pojda
-Mensagem original- De: Wolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: quarta-feira, 27 de fevereiro de 2008 12:06 Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Yeah, but I can't fit into that dress. ;-P besides the flower pattern doesn't really suit you, go with blue

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Thiago Pojda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, this is just getting weird... We're a very close-knit bunch. ;-P -- /Dan Daniel P. Brown Senior Unix Geek ? while(1) { $me = $mind--; sleep(86400); } ? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread tedd
At 11:21 AM -0500 2/27/08, Jason Pruim wrote: Procedural code just more sense to me... $this =$that makes more sense then $this - $that or would it be $that -$this? You and me both. Also, this I understand: $query = SELECT cert FROM cert eval_id = $eval_id; $result = mysql_query($query) or

Re: RES: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Jason Pruim
On Feb 27, 2008, at 12:07 PM, Thiago Pojda wrote: -Mensagem original- De: Wolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: quarta-feira, 27 de fevereiro de 2008 12:06 Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Yeah, but I can't fit into that dress. ;-P besides the flower

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:10 PM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, I understand that if you want to swap databases (MySQL to whatever) having a abstract layer makes it easier. But, it don't make it easier for me in the short term. Or create a simple non-OOP db_query() function and

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Aschwin Wesselius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathan Nobbe wrote: i understand designing for simplicity is key, however, things can only be kept so simple beyond reason. the more something does, the more complex it is; period. -nathan Nice touch,

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Zoltán Németh
2008. 02. 27, szerda keltezéssel 17.42-kor Aschwin Wesselius ezt írta: Nathan Nobbe wrote: i understand designing for simplicity is key, however, things can only be kept so simple beyond reason. the more something does, the more complex it is; period. -nathan Nice touch, but

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Zoltán Németh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008. 02. 27, szerda keltezéssel 17.42-kor Aschwin Wesselius ezt írta: Nathan Nobbe wrote: i understand designing for simplicity is key, however, things can only be kept so simple beyond reason. the more

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Zoltán Németh
2008. 02. 27, szerda keltezéssel 12.45-kor Nathan Nobbe ezt írta: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Zoltán Németh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008. 02. 27, szerda keltezéssel 17.42-kor Aschwin Wesselius ezt írta: Nathan Nobbe wrote: i understand designing for simplicity is key, however,

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread tedd
At 6:32 PM +0100 2/27/08, Zoltán Németh wrote: thanks to its good class structure if we need to modify something we know which file to open and where to modify, even if that class was originally the work of someone else in the team. how would you do that without class structure? greets Zoltán

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread tedd
At 12:18 PM -0500 2/27/08, Daniel Brown wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:10 PM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, I understand that if you want to swap databases (MySQL to whatever) having a abstract layer makes it easier. But, it don't make it easier for me in the short term. Or

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread tedd
At 12:45 PM -0500 2/27/08, Nathan Nobbe wrote: if i were going to design a system consisting largely of functions, i would use the same practice i use for designing classes; each function would be concise. that is, if functions became large, eg over 20 - 30 lines One of the things I've

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:17 PM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:45 PM -0500 2/27/08, Nathan Nobbe wrote: if i were going to design a system consisting largely of functions, i would use the same practice i use for designing classes; each function would be concise. that is, if functions

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Jochem Maas
Richard Heyes schreef: What design patterns do you usually use? Whatever solves the problem. Factory is quite a common one. MVC is another. anyone considered that 'function' and 'class' (given that we seem to be flogging the old OOP v. Functions horse) are both design patterns if you look

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Jochem Maas
Daniel Brown schreef: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:10 PM, tedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, I understand that if you want to swap databases (MySQL to whatever) having a abstract layer makes it easier. But, it don't make it easier for me in the short term. Or create a simple non-OOP

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Brown schreef: Most of my code is like public school on a Sunday or that one uncle that no one in the family likes to acknowledge: no class. that explains your taste in dresses :-) Bite my shiny metal

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Aschwin Wesselius
Nathan Nobbe wrote: adding layers of abstraction arbitrarily is foolish no matter what style the code is written in. design patterns are largely methodologies for adding abstraction but it takes time and practice to know when to use a particular pattern and how to implement it. one of the

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Aschwin Wesselius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathan Nobbe wrote: adding layers of abstraction arbitrarily is foolish no matter what style the code is written in. design patterns are largely methodologies for adding abstraction but it takes time and

Re: [PHP] What design patterns do you usually use?

2008-02-27 Thread Zoltán Németh
2008. 02. 27, szerda keltezéssel 14.02-kor tedd ezt írta: At 6:32 PM +0100 2/27/08, Zoltán Németh wrote: thanks to its good class structure if we need to modify something we know which file to open and where to modify, even if that class was originally the work of someone else in the team. how