[FX.php List] Confusion with 'not equals' search

[Kevin Futter]

On 12/5/07 1:28 AM, "Chris Bisgard" <chris at hotanvil.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Kevin, for that info. I'm running FMSA ver 8 on a site that gets
> pretty light traffic, and haven't seen any performance impact. While I do get
> the "it feels wrong" thing, in some cases it has been the most expedient
> solution for me. As my PHP skills improve, I suspect I will choose to use the
> -script 'crutch' less and less.
>  
> You mentioned security issues and data sync integrity. What are the concerns
> there? My current scripts don't make changes to records, they only constrain
> the found set. I assume data sync and security concerns would be for running
> scripts that actually enter data, update calc fields, edit globals, etc.?

If your scripts are not modifying records or their data, then you should be
pretty safe. IIRC, the data integrity issues were an extension of the
performance issues, in that changes made via a ­script call from the web
might not propagate to all connected clients effectively. I was never quite
sure whether this was a real or merely theoretical problem myself.

-- 
Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/


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