Re: Users link to LBF

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

Because the DB could change and the PHP objects will be updated by Jason
insuring that the code won't break.   The same won't be true of my Perl
code.

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Micah Yoder wrote:

> Aaron Turner wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm... dunno.  It is a quandry.  I don't want to create a great deal of
> > work for others, but I'm in no position to learn PHP right now to do it
> > myself.  How hard would it be for someone who knows PHP (Micah?) to:
> > 
> > Create a web page in php that accepts a list of UserID's.  (I'd get them
> > via a modperl query from the LBF table you just mentioned).  From this
> > list, you'd return a HTML page that lists:
> > 
> > [handle_of_user]:[email_of_user]:[Vaild_URL_to_article]
> > 
> > for each article written by each User.  So, if I send 5 UserID's and each
> > wrote 5 articles, I'd get back 25 records.  I would read these records
> > into an array of hashes in Perl and I'm happy as a clam.
> 
> ???  Why would you want to do that with a PHP/HTML page?  If you only want an
> array in Perl, why not get it from Perl?
> 
> -- 
> "But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
> What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing
> greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all
> things.  I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ." Philippians 3:7-8
> 

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