HAHAHAHA YES YES YES

[kaigou]

Okay, so, it doesn't LOOK like much but it's very very exciting if YOU ARE ME. Which fortunately I am. YES.

I CAN HAS DB GAWDAMMIT.

if it were not in the middle of the night, I would be totally running around and scaring the dogs, dropdownbox!dropdownbox!

And for my next trick, WORLD DOMINATION.

Comments

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know it doesn't look like much, but the crazy thing is I've done database design (not build, just organize/design), I've done massive sites and architecture... and NOT ONCE have I ever before gotten the freaking database to just TALK to a webpage. (I'm not counting built-for-you stuff like Wordpress etc.) I always ended up having to leave that part to the developers I knew.

Then again, when I was working in a strong web-app-dev environment, the inhouse connections were ODBC and maybe it's just that me & ODBC don't get along... because doing it with mySQL and PHP is proving to be so very freaking easy that right now I'm trying to figure out why I didn't do this sooner.

I mean, even a dropdown box! Pulled from the lookup tables! The code just for that drop-down went from like eighty lines to four!

*ahem* sorry, I tend to fall in love with code when it's so simple and elegant...

[underpope.livejournal.com]

As a guy who does LAMP development for a living... Yeah, it's pretty awesome. I remember trying to hook a PHP site up to Oracle a few years ago; it was painful, and it took me two weeks just to come up with the code to connect to the database; creating an abstraction layer on top of that connection was even worse.

Nowadays I just have a standard library of database functions that I reuse over and over again for all my projects.