I'm with you on this Mike.
JSP, ASP and php are just down right ugly. Plus working with HTML, with all its tags, don't make it any easier.

At home I'm playing with php, married with Apache, and it's just so ugly.... but it's free! :)


>Uh, you didn't answer the question I asked. Do you have to type it in? I wouldn't want to code ASP.NET by hand in HTML, either.
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>>I hope I never have to learn that godawful language. Do you have to type it in that way or is it generated by a GUI builder?
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>>In the interests of clarity, I thought I'd provide sample ASP.NET code to perform similar SQL, except with none of the error checking or handling included in the PHP version:
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>>< %@ Page CompilerOptions='/R:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft.NET\Odbc.Net\Microsoft.data.odbc.dll"'% >
>>< %@ Import Namespace="System.Data" % >
>>< %@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.Data.Odbc" % >
>><SCRIPT Language="VB" Runat="server">
>>Sub Page_Load(Source as object, e as EventArgs)
>>Dim sConString As String = "DRIVER={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver}; SERVER=linux3;
>>DATABASE=maindata; UID=user1; PASSWORD=user1pass; OPTION=3"
>>Dim oConnection as ODBCConnection = new ODBCConnection(sConString)
>>Dim sSQL as String = "SELECT name,contact,email,enabled,username FROM customer"
>>Dim oDataAdapter as ODBCDataAdapter = New ODBCDataAdapter(sSQL, oConnection)
>>Dim oDataSet as DataSet = new DataSet()
>>oDataAdapter.Fill(oDataSet)
>>

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>>Here's the PHP equivalent, removing variables and error checking so it's equivalent:
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>><?php
>>$connection=mysql_connect("linux3","user1","user1password");
>>$db=mysql_select_db("maindata",$connection);
>>$sql="SELECT name,contact,email,enabled,username FROM customer";
>>$result=mysql_query($sql);
>>

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>>Now we should ask a VFP person familiar with neither which is the more "godawful". ;-)