Article Discussion: Case Study: Handling MySQL Growth With a PHP Class

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One suggestion: whenever you post these topics, I would also like to see a link to the article. Just my thoughts

Cheers,
Joe of 4Life

Well I don't think It's a good article. The problem is not to add a field or anything, it's that most of the developers don't plan nor think about what they have to do. The first think a developer has to do is not to code or create a table in its db, it's to think about the problem, analysis, design the DB... So I don't think wrapping that problem with a PHP class is a good idea. Not at all.

Think then do it.

which article are you talking about?

Hi Lindset,

I apologize, I think I clicked the wrong button to reply to the post. My answer deals with the article "Case Study: Handling MySQL Growth With a PHP Class".

Maybe you can just move my post to the forum?

Regards,
JM

I am writing a content management system and my client has asked if i can write some functions that will create dynamic input forms. It seems that this class would be perfect for that, but i could do with some help.
Anyone got any ideas

you're right, tobycatlin. this class could be useful for generating dynamic input forms. However for a user of a content system to manage forms without going into HTML, it becomes a tedious task.

My class was designed to update a MySQL table automatically, and present a basic set of functions to each object (documents, categorires), like load, save, delete etc.


As in response to goa103, I fully agree to his argument that planning is very important. I don't even start programming until I have written a rough list over things to include, and how they relate. But this class is used to manage the tedious tasks like saving and loading, even installing and upgrading tables. I have a new version of the class available now, and thinking about writing a follow-up article on that class.

please email me, if you have any questions

- Bjorn (bjorn@roysland.net)