Comments on: Building Browsergames: Retrieving Items (PHP)

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:23:04 +0000

Oh, you’re right – it looks like PHP 4’s end of life has come and gone. I only thought that it had been announced – not that it had happened.

Whoops! Thanks for pointing that out, sepp.

By: sepp

sepp — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:02:48 +0000

By the way: Don’t take PHP4 as your base. It’s obsolete and will be vanished in the near future. Version 5 gives much more powerful tools, especially for object orientated programming. Give it a try . “A lot of hosts” doesn’t have to be “the most” .

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:27:30 +0000

Switching to an OOP system is a pretty good idea – when I first started writing this tutorial code, I didn’t realize that I’d be repeating myself quite this much.

I’ll have to work on designing an OOP version of our database access code – unfortunately, I won’t be able to use PDO as I’m aiming at keeping the PHP code given here compatible with PHP 4, which is what a lot of hosts are still using.

By: sepp

sepp — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:55:05 +0000

So what about an oop approach?! For example you could use a class to encapsulate database access? That would prevent doing mysql_real_escape_string() everywhere! Maybe PDO is worth a glance .

And: DRY! Dont repeat yourself.

et cetera pp