[FX.php List] @ and ~ in TO and field names

[Joel Shapiro]

Any thoughts on this, anyone?
-Joel

On Sep 19, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I've just inherited a DB for which I'll be converting a site from  
> lasso to PHP.
>
> All Join TOs currently use the '@' symbol to represent the join,  
> e.g. Parent at Child (ugh!).  Additionally, some base Tables and some  
> field names start with a '~' symbol, e.g. ~Table or ~Field.
>
> Certainly this is not good practice, but does anyone know if these  
> will (definitely) cause problems when using them with PHP?   
> Seemingly there've been no problems using them w/ lasso.
>
> The lasso site already uses a separate FM Web file, so if I were to  
> use that for the PHP, I *could* change the TO names in that file --  
> although field names would still have the ~ symbol.
>
> There seem to be a *lot* of TO names I'd have to change.  Would I  
> be asking for trouble if I were to leave the @ and ~ symbols in the  
> TO names?
>
> TIA,
> -Joel