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Hi all,  I have a function that is only used in the file it is declared in :

/index.php
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/**
 * This function is used to display form messages.
 *
 * @param string $msg This explains login and session status .
 *
 * @access private
 *
 * @return string
 */
function pred($msg)
{
    return
        "<p class='content' style='color:red;'>
        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;$msg</p>";
}

I'm using netbeans 7.0 (which by the way rocks !!!!! ), and I don't want to be able to see the documentation in other files when I start typing something similar.

I read at pear.net coding standards that the '@param private' can be used on class methods.  Is there a way to make the documentation private to the file that the function is declared in?

I'm simply trying not to flood other files in the project with needless function suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

I was looking over some code that someone else had written when I noticed a line with "$this->entity" in it.  "Entity" is recognized as PHP syntax in my text editor but I cannot find any reference to it in any documentation that I've looked through.

Where can I find more information about the "entity" class?

Thanks in advanced!

Anyone have any experience with something called Moodle at all?  I have just been handed it to 'check out', I told them to 'get out'.

Rw

Hey guys,

glad I found this forum!

I have written a SMS gateway software using VB6 and would like to port to PHP.

Is there a way to write it under windows OS? I m using the dio_* commands in PHP and it works, but I dont want to do infinite loop to read incoming sms... right now I do infinite loop until I received +CMTI and the while loop breaks. This is very redundant and costly, is there any way that PHP has a "timer" feature-like in VB6 to check on incoming sms, like say, every second?

Thanks guys!

I'd like to make myself a poker software that plays itself on all sites.
What I don't know is how to get the variables names that I need. I need the cards variables name and  the buttons name.
Any suggestion how I do it?
Or if I could read the from the screen somehow.
Thanks
 

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Hey, whats going on.  i have been using microsoft access for doing all my queries.  And they are pretty complex.  One query can be the combination of like 8 tables.  Do you think Access is the best program to build and run these queries or do you think there is better software out there for building queries.  what do you suggest.  It seems like Access cant handle very complex queries.  A lot of times i have to break the queries down into 3 or 4 queries.  i build one, export it to a csv file and then import it back into Access and build a new query on the new imported file.  Please let me know what you think. 

This will be somewhat of a brain dump with somewhat vague questions.  To summarize it right now, something about "refactoring software" has been bugging me.  The length of the process, the work it takes, and the time, and the "no immediately visible results" that it produces.   There have been numerous questions on "do I refactor or rewrite".  Depending on circumstances, one choice may work better than another, although historically for working projects (projects people are using continuously), refactoring seemed to do better, since it does not break things as much as rewriting does.  And when things break all at once, such as when introducing a rewrite (which most likely has different behavior, UI, feel, workflow, etc. etc.), people tend to get upset.

Well, refactoring seems to smooth out the 'upsetness' over a much longer period of time.  People change as software changes, and each change is not as abrupt as with a rewrite.

There are books written about refactoring software.  That process takes time and work, `while not changing the functionality of the software`.  Little improvements can be done here and there, but the main point becomes improving the internals of the software without affecting the outside behavior, the user experience.

From the business end, *there are no changes!*.  We have developers *doing busy work* without showing anything to the business, until perhaps much later.  Is that bad?  Where I work, I have business people scoff at "what have we been doing" quite regularly, and saying things like "add convertion from one unit system to another?  Just put it in!"  Which ends up me staring into vastness of legacy code and taking 2-3 weeks to "put it in", what in someone's mind takes a day at the most.  But that's cuz maybe I'm slow, but I chose to refactor relevant code first, at least moving View items into respective view containers as a first step.

What is the purpose of refactoring software?  What, per se does it make better?  What expectations can be set?  What do I do next time someone says "it is taking too long", other than saying ... cuz I am refactoring!

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I am working on an application and part of the requirements is to restrict the number of users that can log in based on a license. So on install, I will provide a license that allows for 10 user accounts to be created.

If the client requires 50, a different license will be provided that allows 50. 
I am asking, does anyone know of such a third party software that can accomplish such a task that would invalidate the need of me writing one from scratch.

 

Regards

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