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Re: PHP CSV

From Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: PHP CSV
Date 2015-02-04 11:23 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <math1o$d7a$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (10 earlier) <040220151329007325%timstreater@greenbee.net> <mat90n$af9$1@dont-email.me> <040220151526139324%timstreater@greenbee.net> <mateh0$1np$1@dont-email.me> <70h4dadlupi7v9vaur78bfbibrqggk1ren@news.eternal-september.org>

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On 2/4/2015 11:11 AM, Paul Herber wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Feb 2015 10:40:50 -0500, Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/4/2015 10:26 AM, Tim Streater wrote:
>>> In article <mat90n$af9$1@dont-email.me>, Jerry Stuckle
>>> <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2/4/2015 8:29 AM, Tim Streater wrote:
>>>>> In article <mat59b$qn4$1@dont-email.me>, Jerry Stuckle
>>>>> <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2/4/2015 7:19 AM, Erwin Moller wrote:
>>>>>>> On 12/19/2014 4:59 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> return does not create invalid output.  die() and exit() do.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have *never* found a need for either one in a properly constructed
>>>>>>>> script.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> I use exit() after a header location combi.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> if (whatever){
>>>>>>>     dostuff();
>>>>>>>     header("location: ....");
>>>>>>>     exit;
>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It is an easy way to redirect, and terminate the script, and not
>>>>>>> having
>>>>>>> a (possibly huge) else-part.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do you (Jerry) think that that approach isn't properly?
>>>>>>> If so, why?
>>>>>
>>>>>> With a properly constructed script, you don't need to call exit() after
>>>>>> a header() call, either.
>>>>>
>>>>> I use exit when processing is complete. Sometimes that happens inside
>>>>> an "if" or other construct.
>>>>>
>>>>> I certainly don't intend, ever, to use convoluted if/then/else just so
>>>>> that processing always arrives at the last line of a script.
>>>
>>>> Which terminates processing immediately - and anything after that point
>>>> (such as </BODY> and </HTML> tags is not sent to the browser.  This
>>>> causes an invalid page to be generated.
>>>>
>>>> Do your clients know you're generating invalid HTML for them?
>>>
>>> My scripts don't generate HTML. They generate data, which is
>>> interpreted client-side and used to update what is presented to the
>>> user.
>>>
>>
>> So you use some convoluted method of sending data to a client and having
>> something run on the client to interpret and display it?
>>
>> Rather than simply generating HTML on the server and sending it to the
>> client, like the rest of the world does?
> 
> That is one of the worst misinterpretations of what might be happening that I've seen you
> do. The data being sent could be all sorts of things. The script could be updating a
> database. Nothing says that any HTML has to be generated.
> 
> 
> 

Paul, we are talking web pages here - not CLI scripts.

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