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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 14:10:47
Message-Id: 1146664764.10743.5.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail by JimD
1 On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 00:37 -0400, JimD wrote:
2 > Michael Sullivan wrote:
3 >
4 > > What other style is there besides procedural?
5 >
6 > A much better way IMO is to separate the presentation from the code like
7 > you can do with ASP.Net with Mono/MS. ASP.Net makes web app development
8 > *event* oriented. You write event handlers to handle certain events
9 > like a page loading or a button being clicked, just as you would do with
10 > a GUI app, and you don't have to have all the markup spewed about in the
11 > code.
12 >
13 > I will never go back to that old style of coding again. When I looked
14 > at the SquirrelMail php I got the willies from how ugly it looked. All
15 > I wanted to do was fix up the the ugly compose form. With an
16 > event-driven web app, the code would have been separated and it would
17 > have been real easy to make changes to.
18 >
19 > Jim
20 > --
21 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
22 > There's no place like 127.0.0.1
23 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
24 > JimD
25 > Central FL, USA, Earth, Sol
26
27 I know about event-driven programming (I wrote in VB for years before I
28 achieved the enlightenment of Linux), but I didn't know that it was
29 possible with PHP. I use event-driven techniques in Gambas and qt. I
30 always thought squirrelmail code was like that for security purposes...
31
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Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] Web mail JimD <Jim@×××××××××××××××××.org>