Re: [binarycloud-dev] coding standards

[alex b. <en...@tu...>]

> I concur with regard to the echo statements in the
> code. I wrote a small database application in PHP with
> a lot of if-then statements, and echo, print
> statements. If I want to change the way each form of
> the application looks, I have to go into the code and
> change all the echo/print statements.

And that's the rub.


> I am currently working on a OOP version of the same
> system and I am going to try to have it dump the data
> into XML and use XLST to transform it, but I'll be
> swimming below water for a couple of weeks before I
> figure it out.

You're welcome to use that "example" xsl/xml I posted, I've tested it and it
works quite well.
Part of r2 will be a complete xslt library of form elements and basic
form+list templates.

Also, if you have any problems with xslt/etc post 'em here and I'm glad to
answer what I can.

> Anyways, echo statements pretty much ruin web gui
> code, as far as I'm concerned.

well said.

_a