php schedule tool

[Collins Richey]

On 10/8/05, David Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/7/05, Man-wai Chang <mwchang at i-cable.com> wrote:
> >
> > Would like some recommendation on a php-mysql tool that manages
> > appointments and events of employees in a small company.
>
> If you insist on shooting yourself in the foot (twice, once with PHP
> and once with MySQL), then I suggest webcalendar.
>
> I'm still waiting for the V5 upgrade spectacle where nothing php4
> works in php5 (at least, it caused me months of pain during the v4
> upgrade -- will never touch php again after that -- burn me once,
> shame on you, burn me twice, shame on me).  And MySQL is not ACID, so
> expect corrupted db tables (I've had them, also no fun).
>

Just an aside. Different strokes for different folks. I love PHP
including PHP5. The fact that you have a choice between procedural and
object coding (not unique, there is also Python), that the basic
syntax is plain-ole-C with a few additions, and that the object
classes make sense (none of the extra crap in C++ is necessary).

I did encounter one PHP5 problem with an older phpBB that I have been
using for some time. When I checked into the bug, I found that the
#$@!ing idiots had coded bad-juju that PHP4 let slide with
unpredictable results and that PHP5 barfed on.

PHP is like any other language: poor coders can break it easily.

I've encountered exactly zero problems with code I wrote using PHP4
when I moved up to PHP5.

I started with PHP4 and have been burned "nonce". I seem to remember
that even PERL went through some not-so-compatible changes in the
early days.

My next step is to check out the PHP/PEAR/DB code for postgres and
teach myself PostgreSQL

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan