Timeline for If you advocate PDO, answer with PDO [closed]
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 12, 2012 at 5:44 | comment | added | Some Helpful Commenter | @Jim Here's a similar sentiment that came out of a nasty episode where some people actually tried to implement what Chris is suggesting. What is it with about PHP that makes people what to do this. Maybe its because instead of glass bottles and old shoes they have double-clawed hammers | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 4:24 | answer | added | Michael Mrozek | timeline score: 7 | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 3:59 | comment | added | Chris | @Jim Would you say that the group of people faced with that situation are very likely to overlap with those that don't understand the difference? I'd say not -- if a beginner is in an esoteric situation, he's probably facing an XY problem. He can and should upgrade, he's probably creating the problem rather than being constrained to it. A more advanced user is more likely to be in that position for a reason, but they'll already know what to do. Our biggest answer-reading demographic is not so much the latter; they'd read the docs | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 3:01 | comment | added | yoozer8 | My point being, @SomeHelpfulCommenter, is that sometimes we need to use known bad practices or hacks because of various environmental constraints. Educating users on the best practice is all well and good, but if it is not plausible for them to solve their problem in any way other than what they are trying, it does no good (although hopefully they will expain that they only have a nail and a glass bottle, and nothing else) | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 2:59 | comment | added | yoozer8 | I live on a small tropical island - we have no shoes.... | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 2:58 | comment | added | Some Helpful Commenter | @Jim you know you should just use an old shoe instead | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 2:55 | comment | added | yoozer8 | Hammers are illegal in my country, but glass bottles are quite easy to come by. Am I not allowed to drive nails simply because the preferred method is not available to me? | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 2:33 | comment | added | Chris | I did search, and read all of those threads. ;) I wanted to discuss the philosophy of the concept, especially the idea that StackOverflow is (or rather, can be) a major influence on the adoption of new language features, and whether answers using older practices can delay the adoption | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 2:32 | comment | added | Some Helpful Commenter | Well I wouldn't worry about search results being a big problem people seem to simply ask instead of searching. Even on meta | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 1:28 | history | edited | Chris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 12, 2012 at 1:17 | answer | added | Fluffeh | timeline score: 15 | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 1:11 | comment | added | user159834 | Well in any case, you can downvote if you want, if you really think it makes the answer a bad one, but flagging is unnecessary and deletion is too extreme. Not sure what else you're suggesting. Actually it would be more ironic if you just left one of those comments. | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 1:06 | comment | added | Chris | Oh, yep, good call. I picked the wrong example. Will correct -- it isn't hard to find. I've done it myself! | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 1:01 | comment | added | user159834 |
Uh, the last answer used mysqli_* which is a recommendation... am I missing something?
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| Sep 12, 2012 at 0:55 | history | asked | Chris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |