PHP should know my data!

I just wrote a web app, but I'm completely disgusted with PHP. The
application works great, but PHP is not smart enough to know what data
belongs in my database. Really, I have to enter the stuff in myself. I
spent 2 long days writing this (sweating and crying), and you mean to
tell me that it doesn't auto-populate my database information? Come on,
people! Data entry is the thing of the past! Maybe I'll convert my
codebase to COBOL or something. At least, it has proven experience with
user data! Sometimes I wonder how long this "innovative" technology
will last when there are incompetent languages like PHP, Perl, and
Java. Color me disappointed.

John Manko
IT Professional

auto-populate data, as in putting in mock data depending on column type? or
transferring data from another data source.
If the former, you can look at 3rd party sources (I think I saw one from
winSQL), if the latter you can convert any data source to a (tab, comma,
etc.) delimeted file which you can load into MySQL through your own PHP
script or I'm sure there is some php script out there that loads in CVS
files.

"John Manko" <xerid@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:3F2057DC.2030703@adelphia.net...
> I just wrote a web app, but I'm completely disgusted with PHP. The
> application works great, but PHP is not smart enough to know what data
> belongs in my database. Really, I have to enter the stuff in myself. I
> spent 2 long days writing this (sweating and crying), and you mean to
> tell me that it doesn't auto-populate my database information? Come on,
> people! Data entry is the thing of the past! Maybe I'll convert my
> codebase to COBOL or something. At least, it has proven experience with
> user data! Sometimes I wonder how long this "innovative" technology
> will last when there are incompetent languages like PHP, Perl, and
> Java. Color me disappointed.
>
> John Manko
> IT Professional
>
>

Now this is funny. John, you've captured the irony of a number of recent
posts. Congrats. Been a while since I laughed this hard. Cobol. egad.
That's a nice touch.
Thanks for the levity.
chris


-----Original Message-----
From: John Manko [mailto:xerid@adelphia.net]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 2:04 PM
To: PHP General
Subject: [php] PHP should know my data!


I just wrote a web app, but I'm completely disgusted with PHP. The
application works great, but PHP is not smart enough to know what data
belongs in my database. Really, I have to enter the stuff in myself. I
spent 2 long days writing this (sweating and crying), and you mean to
tell me that it doesn't auto-populate my database information? Come on,
people! Data entry is the thing of the past! Maybe I'll convert my
codebase to COBOL or something. At least, it has proven experience with
user data! Sometimes I wonder how long this "innovative" technology
will last when there are incompetent languages like PHP, Perl, and
Java. Color me disappointed.

John Manko
IT Professional



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"Robert Cummings" <robert@wocmud.org> wrote in message
news:1059085413.17093.0.camel@blobule.suds...
> Unfortunately I don't think some people "got" the joke. Next thing you
> know their going to complain that PHP should have told them the
> punchline ;)
>
I guess I got burned on that. I honselty though I could save one soul after
not helping out that beuford guy with the longest thread that I have seen
"I'm really getting annoyed with PHP".

I guess this shows that I'm not over 35 though, since I am not that familiar
with COBOL, and took what John said with a grain of salt.

Anyways, it's good to see some light humour after see that extremely long
eye sore of a thread.

Have a good one.
Bobby

> Cheers,
> Rob.
>

And he signs "IT Professional" and he wants to go back to COBOL!

LOL

Cesar

John Manko wrote:
> I just wrote a web app, but I'm completely disgusted with PHP. The
> application works great, but PHP is not smart enough to know what data
> belongs in my database. Really, I have to enter the stuff in myself. I
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>
> John Manko
> IT Professional
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