Re: _ in front of field name
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 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:
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
DOWNLOAD WEBDNA NOW!
Top Articles:
Talk List
The WebDNA community talk-list is the best place to get some help: several hundred extremely proficient programmers with an excellent knowledge of WebDNA and an excellent spirit will deliver all the tips and tricks you can imagine...
Related Readings:
Applescript, WebDNA, and PDF (1997)
Interactive Docs (2007)
WC1.6 to WC2 date formatting (1997)
multi-paragraph fields (1997)
using showpage and showcart commands (1996)
Error: Missing c in orderfile???? (2005)
question: webdelivery folder and file (1997)
The Guru Speaks-Is That Really the Only Manuel? (1998)
Sense/Disallow HTML tags during $Append (1997)
error message (2000)
Have I lost my mind? uhmm... (2002)
WebCat2b15MacPlugin - [protect] (1997)
[SameAsShipping] (2005)
.. more on sliding discounts... (1997)
Updating fields from different platforms (1998)
Authenticate (1997)
Quit revisited (1997)
credit card (1997)
Moment of Thanks (1997)
Huge databases and RAM (1998)