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

Joel Shapiro jsfmp at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 23 15:54:10 MDT 2008


Hi Dale

Yeah, that was my plan.  Guess I was just being lazy :-P

Thanks,
-Joel


On Sep 23, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:

> Hi Joel,
>
> I'd roll the dice and try some FX queries with the naming as-is.  
> (Or simulate it in another testing system if you don't have full  
> web access to the actual file yet.) If it works, you're off the  
> hook. If it doesn't, you can start making plans for name changes.
>
> Dale
>
> On Sep 23, 2008, at 4:09 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:
>
>> 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
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