Re: _ in front of field name

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1998

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 18904
interpreted = N
texte = This certainly makes sense. But I would swear the database helper did it for creative database names too.Is there documentation on this _ thing? Is there a list of reserved words?>At 13:31 Uhr 15.07.1998, Sue Ann Sanders wrote:>>What is the significance of a _ in front of the field names within a>>form? I believe this was done automatically when I used the database>>helper.?>>It is a good idea to have a naming convention to avoid equal names for>fields and WebCat commands. Imagine you name a field of your form date>for the birthday. If you ask for this field on the following page, you>write for example:>Since you are born on [date] you are too old...>In this case WebCat will NOT insert the form field but todays date because>[date] is a command!>>So, if you name all form fields and variables according to such a naming>convention, you will never make a similar mistake. That is why you see>often names like [_date], [v.email] or similar in the code of other people.>>Peter>>__________________________________________>Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.com>Ostry & Partner - Ostry Internet Solutions>Auhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austria>fon ++43-1-8777454 fax ++43-1-8777454-21> Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: _ in front of field name (Kenneth Grome 1998)
Re: _ in front of field name (Kenneth Grome 1998)
Re: _ in front of field name (Peter Ostry 1998)
Re: _ in front of field name (Brian B. Burton 1998)
Re: _ in front of field name (John Hill 1998)
Re: _ in front of field name (Sue Ann Sanders 1998)
Re: _ in front of field name (Peter Ostry 1998)
_ in front of field name (Sue Ann Sanders 1998)

This certainly makes sense. But I would swear the database helper did it for creative database names too.Is there documentation on this _ thing? Is there a list of reserved words?>At 13:31 Uhr 15.07.1998, Sue Ann Sanders wrote:>>What is the significance of a _ in front of the field names within a>>form? I believe this was done automatically when I used the database>>helper.?>>It is a good idea to have a naming convention to avoid equal names for>fields and WebCat commands. Imagine you name a field of your form date>for the birthday. If you ask for this field on the following page, you>write for example:>Since you are born on [date] you are too old...>In this case WebCat will NOT insert the form field but todays date because>[date] is a command!>>So, if you name all form fields and variables according to such a naming>convention, you will never make a similar mistake. That is why you see>often names like [_date], [v.email] or similar in the code of other people.>>Peter>>__________________________________________>Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.com>Ostry & Partner - Ostry Internet Solutions>Auhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austria>fon ++43-1-8777454 fax ++43-1-8777454-21> Sue Ann Sanders

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Re: _ in front of field name

1998

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