I really like option 2 better
You're right, that's not true. What's true is I like option 1 and I'm a big spaz.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Rebecca Lizard - Nov 18, 2002 4:11:41 pm PST #1605 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Burrell - Nov 18, 2002 7:13:25 pm PST #1606 of 10000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I think the relevant question is which is easier to code.
Jesse - Nov 18, 2002 8:14:06 pm PST #1607 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
This may not be at all relevant, but I'm curious: how come, when you forget the last " in an a href thingie (which I just did), it messes up the way the page displays, but if you use a ' instead, it breaks everything?
Typo Boy - Nov 18, 2002 8:31:03 pm PST #1608 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Just not allowing the post would a be a bit easier. But since it is John's preference and John is doing the coding that is not a determining option.
John H - Nov 18, 2002 8:32:07 pm PST #1609 of 10000
In both cases, the link HREF contains everything up to the next whatever-it-is.
So the page where you put HREF=" and fail to close it will be missing everything up to the next double-quote and bracket, and the page where you put HREF=' and fail to close it will be missing everything up to the next single-quote and bracket.
I don't know why one should be worse than the other though, just a matter of where Jon's use single and where he's used double quotes.
§ ita § - Nov 18, 2002 8:32:29 pm PST #1610 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
John's doing the coding? Yay!
Hil R. - Nov 18, 2002 8:33:02 pm PST #1611 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
This may not be at all relevant, but I'm curious: how come, when you forget the last " in an a href thingie (which I just did), it messes up the way the page displays, but if you use a ' instead, it breaks everything?
I think that the post that broke everything had a ' instead of a " for the first quote, not the last one.
John H - Nov 18, 2002 8:34:32 pm PST #1612 of 10000
John is doing the coding
Ooh, am I? Scary. I'm just kind of sketching out code, I'm not necessarily thinking I'll be coding the whole interface thing. I just kind of started playing with it because it's a regular-expression type thing.
I was imagining that, like with quick-edit, I'd give ita a chunk of code to insert into the main body of the Board.
Jon B. - Nov 18, 2002 8:47:43 pm PST #1613 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I don't know why one should be worse than the other though, just a matter of where Jon's use single and where he's used double quotes.
Double quotes appear more often than single quotes, so using a single quote to start a link and not closing it properly is likely to affect more of the page than if you start a link with a double-quote and don't close it properly.
John H - Nov 19, 2002 1:29:43 am PST #1614 of 10000
Hey, anyone, what's the correct way to get the last item of an array in PHP? I can't seem to see it in the online manual -- should I just use
$array_name[count($array_name)]or what? It looks clunky.