A society’s sense of propriety is in constant flux. More conservative elements resist inevitable change. Institutions are fortresses of status quo standing against continuous onslaughts of progressive opinions. But since propriety is merely the aggregate of opinion, these institutions have no more sway than the sum of the opinions of those who reside within them. Resistance is pointless.
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There is an obvious generational divide on the subject of texting. Sitting around the campfire with a couple of teenage girls who are spending more time texting their friends back home than talking to you can be a heavy influence on one’s opinion. And though I have had such an experience, my opinion is not entirely negative.
I recently posted a blog entry regarding Calendar Syncing. Therein, I addressed my need to sync iCal on my Macbook with Google Calendar in order to force it to sync with other calendars since Google Calendar can be synced with so very many things.
A friend of mine is constantly preaching the wonders of the Getting Things Done (GTD) task management methodology. He even convinced me to spend countless hours writing a web-based calendar app that supports complex event types, scheduling the various actions required by specific event participants and keeping all these calendar entries tied together, but that’s fodder for another blog entry.
This simple package includes the necessary persistence classes to quickly implement your own classes with a variable number of properties. Get up and running with a new backend class and the required persistence layer in a matter of minutes.
To use this package…
1. Your PHP code must load the file “loadpackage.php”.
2. Your code should instantiate an object of class MySqlConnector. The initialization function of this class establishes a connection with your MySql server and database; modify the initialization function as necessary.
3. Your new MySqlConnector instance contains a property .sql which can write MySql queries for you as well as a function .Run that can execute queries.
4. Use the provided code generator to build a class with properties/fields you specify which already includes Save and Open functionality using SimpleMySqlPHP persistence.
Download SimpleMySqlPHP Package
The classes in this package are fully documented with descriptions of the available functions and their use.
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