Re: Again - Perl: DB.PHP.Cache

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

Quick Q (read below)

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:46:03AM -0800, Aaron Turner wrote:
> > Maybe I need another cup o' joe.  To make sure we're on the same page, can
> > you maybe do a few example lines of output of the script based on the
> > actual values of the DB?  Just so I can see what you want you want me to
> > take and how to output it.  I think I get it, but I'd hate to find out
> > that I'm doing it all wrong. :-)
> 
> 
> Sure.  Lets take $OBJECT_TYPES and $TYPE_PROPERTIES
> 
> 1) select * from ObjectTypes;
> This returns a few records, lets take 2 of them:
> 
> ObjectTypeId | ObjectTypeName | ObjectTypeDesc | ValidChildren | etc...
>              |                |                |               |
>      1       |	KB Root       |  Root Cont ... |       3       | ...
>      2       |  User Root     |  Root Cont ... |       4       | ...
> 
> 2) Next step - create $OBJECT_TYPES which is just an array of valid Type
> ID's:
> 
> $OBJECT_TYPES[0] = 1;
> $OBJECT_TYPES[1] = 2;
> ...
> 
> 3) Create $TYPE_PROPERTIES which will define everything else about an
> ObjectType, and the key of the array will be equal to the ObjectTypeID:
> 
> $TYPE_PROPERTIES[1]["Name"] = "KB Root";
> $TYPE_PROPERTIES[1]["Desc"] = "Root Cont...";
> $TYPE_PROPERTIES[1]["ValidChildren"] = "3";
> ... etc for all properties of a type ...

Ok, I get this whole thing.  Question is what is the point of
$OBJECT_TYPES if you can just iterate $TYPE_PROPERTIES to get the
ObjectTypeId's-- seems a bit redundant to me.  Maybe I'm thinking too much
Perl, but I assume that PHP can do that too.

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