Re: [Vfs-devel] class.DBI progress + new structure

[Tony K. <tk...@ca...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Abdul-Wahid Paterson" <ee...@we...>
To: "VFS Developement" <vfs...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 8:32 PM
Subject: [Vfs-devel] class.DBI progress + new structure


> Hi,
>
> I have ported the vfs_auth, db_wrapper and header to use class.DBI. Also,
I
> have changed some of the main features over to use class.DBI. The rest is
> still broken until I can complete the transfer.
>
> I have also rearranged the code. You will find things here:
>
> lib/
> - header.inc.php3
>
> lib/db/
> - db_wrapper.inc.php3
> - pg_wrapper.inc.php3
> - class.DBI
> - class.DBD::Pg
>
> lib/auth/
> - vfs_auth.inc.php3
>
> config/
> - config.inc.php3
>
>
> Note:
>
> 1. I have change the .inc files to be called .inc.php3 This is because it
is
> more secure as the webserver can read the .php3 because they don't return
any
> text. The .inc files are returned as text by Apache. I blocked this before
> using mod_rewrite but since we don't want to use mod_rewrite any more this
is
> a better way of doing it.
>
> 2. db_wrapper loads pg_wrapper for Postgres specific functions. It loads
> class.DBI which in turn loads class.DBD::Pg.
>
> 3. I have made a couple of minor changes to class.DBD::Pg and I may make
some
> more. One thing $sth->rows didn't work. Also, loads of white space (see
> previous mail) had to be trimmed out. I might edit it further because
> transaction support isn't there. I know mySQL doesn't do transactions but
> Postgres needs them for BLOBs.

Just a quick note on the above item. I'll comment on the other stuff later
tonight or tomorrow. The Latest versions of MySQL support Transactions now.
But it's purely optional. Just a note. The standard Atomic operations will
do perfectly though.

>
>
> Question:
>
> 1. Where should we put things that end users might want to edit like
header
> html and footer html?
> 2. I think we should think of allowing different language interfaces. How
are
> we going to do that?
> 3. Where should the button bar inc file go?
>
>
>
> See ya,
>
>
>
> AW
>
>
>
>
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