That's exactly how I found my way onto this list. :)
And I do agree whole-heartedly about: "there is a difference between "how do i do XYZ" and "please teach me how
to write a dynamic web application","
Yup, fair cop.
Note that my post on why I won't answer this sort of question on the SLUG list was more philosophical. I guess I had two main points: (a) I reserve the right to charge for doing work that I think I should be able to charge for, while still answering questions that are simple and easy and about doing XYZ, and (b) Louis (Hi Louis!) is going to be in serious danger if he proceeds down the passing-variables-via-GET method of web programming and probably needs some more serious help than can be provided in a 2 minute Q&A session on SLUG.
There is also only so much you can learn by asking [relatively] simple
questions like those passed around here (some are not quite so simple, but the
majority are)
The rest we'll have to dig deeper...
Agreed, and I guess this was one of my points.
Louis: It might be reasonably easy to get your HTTP variables passed around by the method you're talking about but you're going to at least need to find a good book on CGI and perl and read a bit about web security to find out why it's a really bad idea to try to do what you're doing, except for very trivial applications.
i.e. you might get a simple answer to a simple problem here, but I think you're going to end up with the right answer to the wrong problem.
Unrelated web programming add-on: There is a Sydney PHP user group meeting on tomorrow (Thursday 2nd October) at UTS. Details here:
http://sydney.ug.php.net/
sydney.ug.php.net is not associated with SLUG, or the folks who make PHP (but they let us use an A record in their domain).
-- Del
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