Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-16 Thread Robert Cummings
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 22:24, Christopher Jordan wrote: > > I think you've hit the nail on the head there, but I'm sorta glad the > subject's come up since I'm learning about a concept that I've not > used before. Is it mostly used for purposes of scalability? It seems > like it might be that way.

Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-15 Thread Christopher Jordan
Robert Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 21:34, Christopher Jordan wrote: > Rob, > > Thanks for responding. :) I have more questions. I hope >that's okay. :) >*lol* No problem :) Thanks! :) > > You said: > "Share nothing" refers to the PHP philosophy of not tying

Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-14 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 21:34, Christopher Jordan wrote: > Rob, > > Thanks for responding. :) I have more questions. I hope that's okay. :) *lol* No problem :) > > You said: > "Share nothing" refers to the PHP philosophy of not tying any data > sharing system to the engine itself. > In this way

Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-14 Thread Christopher Jordan
Rob, Thanks for responding. :) I have more questions. I hope that's okay. :) You said: "Share nothing" refers to the PHP philosophy of not tying any data sharing system to the engine itself. In this way developers are free to create applications in such a way that if they need more power, they

Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-14 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 20:50, Christopher Jordan wrote: > > When you said: > > "...the strength and simplicity of PHP stem from the decision to make/keep > PHP a 'share nothing' architecture." > > What did you mean, by that? I've not heard of this "share nothing" > idea. What is the idea

Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-14 Thread Christopher Jordan
Jochem, Thanks so much for your advice. In the end, I managed to find why that little EZSql tool wasn't working for me, and thus what I'm *really* putting into the session variable is an array. I understand also that each user would get a copy of the same session variables, but this is for a

Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-13 Thread Jochem Maas
CF has an application scope - PHP does not. the strength and simplicity of PHP stem from the decision to make/keep PHP a "share nothing" architecture. with regard to shoving stuff in the SESSION superglobal: 1. it not shared between requests by different users - meaning that the SQL query you ga

Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-12 Thread Eric Butera
On 12/11/05, Christopher Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I'm a ColdFusion developer, but I'm branching out into PHP because alot > of my smaller clients don't want to pay for CF. > > Anyway, a bit of background: > > I've got a page that does a search on one of my tables.

Re: [PHP] Questions from a ColdFusion Developer

2005-12-11 Thread Derek Williams
Not sure if I can give a good answer, but try doing a var_dump on $_SESSION["Search Result"] and see what you get. I suspect that it is null. If that's the case then track down where it is getting assigned. It should look something like $_SESSION["SearchResult"] = $users. Christopher Jordan