[fpc-pascal]Question to the offical fpc book

[A.J. Venter]

I would like to seccond the suggestion as well.
I wrote my first PHP program last month - a giant LAMP project that used
a completely revolutionary (as in nobody every did it like that before)
database design.
The criteria I had to meet was horrendous:
Every record would have completely different fields, yet they had to be
ordered and structured. Fields could repeat with different values etc.
etc.
It was in short an order off create a database which can hold data
without a fixed table structure, and a web frontend.
I pulled it off by creating a massive database that stored all the
actual values in a single field. All the other fields are meta data
explaining all the known data fields (which means new fields can be
created instantly) - and the GUI had the task of interacting with that
database following the rules layed out in this database.
I did all this in PHP because I wanted to learn the language. I
literally looked up each PHP command as I needed it. I could pseudocode
the whole program, but before two weeks ago, I did not even know a
single php command.
The comments in the manual was a life-saver. Especially the extra
examples showing the function in multiple usage situations allowing me
to easilly pick the right one each time.

I think FPC would do great to implement the a similiar structure.
Also it would be really nice if we could archive the mailining list into
a searchable structure such as a mysql_database instead. Allowing users
to do keyword searches on discussions.

Just my R0.02 worth

Ciao
A.J.
On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 09:50, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > The search function will be added as soon as I have some time.
> > The ability for users to add comments will not be added since
> > that is not the idea of documentation. For this we have mailing
> > lists and forums.
> 
> I think that this suggestion is quite good. First, the comments to the
> php functions contain often helpful hints and tricks. Further,
> suggestions and comments to the docs are very close to the contents.
> It's much harder to search the mailing lists and forum. I think also
> that such a system encourages users to comment the docs which is helpful
> to improve them. Maybe it's worth a try?
> 
> 
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