On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 00:37 -0400, JimD wrote:
> Michael Sullivan wrote:
> 
> > What other style is there besides procedural?  
> 
> A much better way IMO is to separate the presentation from the code like 
> you can do with ASP.Net with Mono/MS.  ASP.Net makes web app development 
> *event* oriented.  You write event handlers to handle certain events 
> like a page loading or a button being clicked, just as you would do with 
> a GUI app, and you don't have to have all the markup spewed about in the 
> code.
> 
> I will never go back to that old style of coding again.  When I looked 
> at the SquirrelMail php I got the willies from how ugly it looked.  All 
> I wanted to do was fix up the the ugly compose form.  With an 
> event-driven web app, the code would have been separated and it would 
> have been real easy to make changes to.
> 
> Jim
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> JimD
> Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol

I know about event-driven programming (I wrote in VB for years before I
achieved the enlightenment of Linux), but I didn't know that it was
possible with PHP.  I use event-driven techniques in Gambas and qt.  I
always thought squirrelmail code was like that for security purposes...

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