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See me see wahala o, na wetin consign you consign me? now mister quarter-wheat abi na wheat-wheat, abeg comot for hia jor.

^^^Abeg, waka pass jor. Do favicon for the guy and stop all these your big-boy talks. At least i did a free favicon for the op.

*dhtml is now dhtml in case anyone is mistaken.

Djtm: lol, no. Some people just cannot think like a programmer. The same thing that happened to all the messis that were born when there was not football.

So you are saying a person that was trained in havard for programming cannot be better than someone that trained with ehm maybe w3schools?

^^^Grammar man, the message was not meant for you so you probably missed it.

Is alright, just wanted to clarify things.

This is not really an argument about who wins - whether pdo or mysqli. If you read my posts clearly, you will see that i did not recommend anyone in particular, except to condemn using mysql directly.
PDO - supports a lot of databases
MySQLi - supports only mysql
So it is safer to use PDO. However, if you are like me that you have an extensive library of codes using mysql and especially if you make use of wrapper functions, it is easier for you to upgrade your wrapper from mysql to mysqli. However, PDO will be better - if you can afford the time, it is definitely worth it.

Okay, i shall review it and post the results later.

I shall consider it deeply.

cbrass: Is PDO supported by all host

Think I have to brush my self on that since have had enough of mysql

The answer is NO. It is supported, but not all webhosts enable it - reasons unknown to me. The first site i did exclusively with PDO failed because the server did not support it.
The latest drupal 7 installation comes with MySQLi, so if the drupal community decides to use MySQLi, i dont have a problem with it.

Hmn, maybe you should pay one of those guys above to do it for you.

blueyedgeek: A job would be better sir.

A job, a job, a job, caramba! yes that is it, a job. . . .in what format do you want the job?

losprince: nigeria needs to go back to the stone age.

where we hit cutlass on stone to make fire eh? and our laptop is a slate and mouse is a piece of white shalk?

So you are saying that programming is determined by DNA sequences eh? So what happens to programmers that were born in an era that there were no computers? they simply died and were reborn?

Wait, i have this software that broadcast wifi from my laptop, so i can just connect with my phones and use my laptop wifi to sharge my phones wirelessly?

Djtm: Pink text on blue background.

Crows like a cockerel! adonbilivit!!

We are suppose to do a gala night for the winners, or at least take them to peppersoup joints in addition to the award.

^^^That is a good advice, however, i shall extend that advice to learn how to use both MySQLi and PDO, i can use both, but for personal reasons, i use msqli.
PDO and MySQLi are wrappers, i work with wrappers from time. So my db_query function which i have been using since the time of mysql, my pagination scripts and all that are what i still use now, only that i changed the internal codings to mysqli.
That way, my former applications that i did with mysql can be easily upgraded to mysqli, this is simple because mysql can be converted to mysqli almost on a line-by-line translation.

Wow! how did I miss this thread until now! this is really awesome.
Hehehe, lol at menu making noise! What kind of noise was that - was it crowing like a rooster on hover or barking like a dog?

Just imagine the concobility, iz this what you are looking for?

rutchiekens: Blame it on NL's poor Private messaging and inbox system...

Does NL have an inbox system

Na wa for this site o.

And please remove strict mode from your my.ini otherwise you will encounter one strange problem.
Lets say you created a table like this:

table users:
ID int
username varchar 50
firstname varchar 50
lastname varchar 50

and you do not add a default value to lastname and firstname, the moment you write a query like this:
Update `users` set `username`='mumu' where `ID`='1'; you will get an error telling you that no default value set for firstname.

You need a banner rotator script. These kinda stuffs are custom-made most of the time because of variations. It is not as simple as you think, what you need is a mini-web-app to manage banners. You make it sound like a small script just to roll banners, lol.

Maybe when you meet a great programmer, you should ask them all these questions. As for me, I aint got an answer to all these, thank you.

I heard some students could not even find this thread.

We never award this one, u wan register for next season?

Exactly, mysqli I was forced to upgrade earlier this year.
Easier for me because I normally work with custom database wrapper. I was so used to drupal 6 database wrapper that I built a custom wrapper to work like it.
I just had to upgrade my wrapper.

Rubbish! What if someone else signs up as pcguru?

Kovic08: sarcasm

Nay, it is true. One time that i had a fight with seun, i wrote a script that generated plenty of those accounts, and the script still works, i wanted to release it to public then to spite seun, but i changed my mind at the least minute - because i dont want to crash nairaland.

Kovic08: ah dey wonder too oo, I was like e be like say this "father" get like 7 accounts for here

I had at least 100 accounts as at last year census.

Now there is confusion because the original *dhtml is now dhtml18 - just imagine the concobility

sisqology: lols, u no serious; who be dhtml18?

Seun has renamed *dhtml to dhtml18 - for reasons best known to him.

This is one of the advantages of having uncountable usernames. This dhtml account is different from *dhtml which is now dhtml18.