PHP, Zend Framework and Other Crazy Stuff
Archive for November, 2005
Conversion of the Heretics!
Nov 19th
Its nice to figure out that where insanity reigns, there are places where sanity is preserved…
After trying to figure out how to add some Atom feeds into the list (see left) I stumbled across 2RSS. 2RSS supplies a tool for dynamically converting Atom feeds into RSS2 format. As a result two Atomist Heretics (Iamsure and Legendary Fox) have attained the ultimate (and possibly dubious) honour of inclusion in Maug’s list of PHP Game Developer Blogs! Yep, the Barbarians are now firmly through the gates…
Meanwhile I have posted a question on the ADOdb forums about that pg_escape_string() commented out in the Postgres driver (see the comments listed on the right by Iamsure and Panama Jack). John must have some good reason not to use the function (escapes me entirely – but I’m not the DB abstraction expert am I?).
Still looking for more developer blogs. If they exist at all… Suggestions?
Escaping in ADOdb; does it exist?
Nov 18th
I could be dead wrong on this – I’m not an expert in the ADOdb codebase, but I don’t seem able to find the all useful data escaping functions of ADOdb. There is a “qstr” function which appears to perform some escaping, as well as smart quoting of strings – but not much else. No mention of pg_escape_string (or its mysql counterpart). Without a detailed look I’m passing over qstr entirely, and using my own escaping functions instead. Of course that means I have to push in database abstraction rather than rely on the library supposedly doing this for me.
ADOdb Lite has the same issue I believe. Although it might be easier there to plugin a proper native function module for escaping (and probably smart quoting). I think normal escaping and qstr() could cause double escaping. Might test that later.
All I need now is for someone to pop up and explain just how wrong I am – that would actually be a relief…
Quantum Star SE; hey, quit raising the eyebrows. The man is working on that final 0.13 set of changes. I also started adding signups and logins back into the codebase. Expect a final weekend release for testing – after that it’s time to tackle the database table classes and getting the basic location page functionality ported in from the 0.6 pre-alpha I released last April.
