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Comment on Coding things the quick way – often a false economy by Ed Yarnold

Ed Yarnold — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:01:49 +0000

Wow, thanks Tom. Never thought of doing it that way! I must investigate triggers and views some more, I’ve never used them myself (not yet anyway).

Comment on Coding things the quick way – often a false economy by Tom

Tom — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:24:12 +0000

Alternatively you could cater for this in your database rather than modifying your script.

In MySQL you can make use of triggers and views to accomplish what you’re after; set triggers on DELETE statements to update the record with is_deleted = 1, and views to select table contents where is_deleted = 0.

The only change you’d need to make to your model(s) is to select from the view rather than the actual table.

Comment on Should you sanitise your HTML before or after you save to your database? by Ed Yarnold

Ed Yarnold — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:14:47 +0000

Can’t believe I missed that point, Tom! I had that very situation a few weeks ago. A site had been built where all data was htmlentitied. We wanted to export a stock list to PDF but had to unhtmlentity everything first. Not a pretty solution, and it could have been avoided with a bit of foresightedness!

Comment on Should you sanitise your HTML before or after you save to your database? by Tom

Tom — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:12:31 +0000

In my mind it’s clear – always perform data filtering on output. Why? Because it offers more flexibilty. Sure, you may just be displaying data on a web page for now, but if you want to be more creative in future (e.g. export to Excel or PDF) you’ll likely not want special characters escaped to HTML entities and the like.

Comment on How I organise my project information to save time. by Paul

Paul — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:08:28 +0000

I recently started at a company where none of the project names seemed to be consistent. Some referred to the site name, some to the URL of the site, others to the name of the company commissioning the web site. You are right; it was incredibly frustrating having to guess where to look when I was asked to make changes to particular web sites. I can see that naming things consistently could save a great deal of time. I’m going to try to introduce these guidelines in my workplace! Thanks again!

Comment on PHP Developers (and Web Design companies): Consider using someone else to check your work! by Ed Yarnold

Ed Yarnold — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:25:12 +0000

Thanks – I just redesigned (and recoded all of the html) so any issues that were here a week or so ago should have disappeared by now.

Comment on PHP Developers (and Web Design companies): Consider using someone else to check your work! by Jones SEO

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