Re: [Phphtmllib-devel] postgresql

[Walter A. B. I. <wab...@3g...>]

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> ok :)  You get to use X at work?!?  That is pretty cool-- sounds like=20
> you have a lot of freedom where you work.  What IDE do you develop in?
---yah I'm a linux guy full time.  I run Gentoo linux on all of my machin=
es now. =20
I use Visual Slick Edit as my IDE.  Its a great environment for developin=
g in
linux.  Unfortunatly its pretty expensive.  I have been able to get my wo=
rk to
buy it for me :)

> Birmingham to visit friends for 6 or 7 days then Philidelphia for a=20
> conference for my wife.  More fun vacations out there but this is what=20
> we are doing...
---sounds like a fun trip!  have a good time.

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> Form wizard is going to take a while unfortunately.
---hehe its ok.  It's been sitting there stale for a while as it is.  :( =
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> >
> >   So you were playing with the PEARSQLDataListSource and using PEAR's=
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> > Postgres
> > driver and it didn't work?  I usually don't use PEAR myself, so I=20
> > haven't played
> > with it in ages.  I usually use ADODB, as it is much more feature=20
> > rich, and is
> > faster then PEAR.  I'm a bit of a contributor to ADODB as well.
> >
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> It didn't work-- It might have been specifics of the PEAR::DB object I=20
> was throwing at it-- I will make sure before I change anything.  I will=
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> also test mysql.
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> I would love to switch to ADODB but I have 700 or 800 files using=20
> PEAR::DB and at this point I don't want to use it *that* much :)
---heh yah.  I hear ya.  I am going through the process of converting a h=
ome
baked DB object to adodb at my job now.  It's a daunting task, but one th=
at will
pay off in the long run.

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> ok-- I didn't want to dive in and start changing too much without=20
> getting a sense of how much you wanted to be involved in my changes...
---thats kewl.  I appreciate it.  Just give me a heads up when you make t=
he
changes.  I'll be soon updating the cvs repository on sourceforge to auto=
 email
us when commits are made to the module.

> I have been kind of looking for a project to contribute to.  Everyone=20
> is so hot on template engines lately and they just don't do it for me--=
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> phphtmllib is much more my style.  I'd like to see it become more=20
> popular... eventually I want to write some more examples and tutorials=20
> which will hopefully make it more accessible to people.  Get more=20
> people involved and that will mean more widgets.
----yah I hear ya.  I've done template based apps before, but they are
invariably a mess.  A lot of folks say that templating gives you the sepe=
ration
of logic from presentation, but not really.  The entire logic of any temp=
late
based app, spends all of its time populating replacement variables which =
are
specific to the presentation it wants.  So I don't really buy into it.  T=
his is
besides the overly ornate and complicated template parsers, which just do=
esn't
makes sense to me.  The only way I'd ever go w/ a 'template' style is usi=
ng
include().
  I've always been a big fan of OOP, and widgets for html seemed to make =
sense
to me at least. =20

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> One more question.  I was tinkering with a DataList and I wanted to=20
> test the action column stuff.  I tried this in user_setup()
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>          $this->add_action_column('checkbox', 'FIRST', 'payment_id');
>          $this->action_button('test', 'test');
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> and the checkbox worked but the action button did not show up.  What do=
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> I have to do do get an action button?
---you almost have it.  action_button() returns a button object that is p=
laced
in the actionbar.  So the proper way to do it is to override the
actionbar_cell() method and return the buttons you want to see there

function actionbar_cell() {
  $c =3D container();

  $c->add( $this->action_button('test', 'test'),
           _HTML_SPACE,
           $this->action_button('foo', 'bar_url.php?id=3D'.$_REQUEST['che=
ckbox']) );
  return $c;
}
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Walt