Hey all. I'm looking for guidance from any PHP Gurus, or gurus in the making re: whether to use a function based design or a switch statement based design for a multi-sport data driven sport report.
Alright, here's the deal: Last year I developed a data driven hockey report for a friend -- the site has done rather well. Based on the success of his site, I thought I'd launch a spec sport report and see what happens (that's where I'm at now). Over the past few weeks I've been converting the single sport hockey report over to a multi-sport interface. In doing so, I realized that many of the hard coded templates I developed in Cold Fusion could be converted to PHP functions; thus saving time for common sport development (i.e. baseball and softball have the same stats, so no need to replicate hard coded templates, just call function(s) to do the work). Due to my relative beginner developer status, I'm coming from a position of ignorance -- I don't know for sure what the best way to proceed actually is. The functions I've created work, but I can't shake the notion that there is a better way to proceed -- and I'm sure if you've got any programming experience under your belt, you've already got a few ideas in mind. The question: if you were to undertake this project, would you develop functions (not objects -- I'm not there yet), to create templates for submitting game results, or would you break it down into switch statements with include files, or none of the above? Any advice greatly appreciated, Give a holler if you need more details............ --Noah -- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
