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Work

This is being written with my phone. 2.5 presses per char average.

Today and yesterday good progress on work project, even though on both days I felt totally stuck at
times.  Today I finished the PHP-HTML-form framework so my next step is to convert some mySQL class
to work with my new table. Fortunately, I was just looking at it today and it appears it will be
easier than I had guessed.

A big part of the challenge before was figuring out how the previous author was moving data around,
and I believe the code was sloppily cut-n-pasted from itself because by Occam's razor that's how
there's superfluous code, especially in some rarely traveled error catchers.

Not sure that I will clean up those modules soon, but I'm trying to make my code as lovely as
possible.

12:47am JST Wednesday 17 October 2007 (day 13720)

Okay, now I'm on my computer. Regarding "moving data around," I mean the pages are presented to the user after going through three .php files each. The first is called _____Action (where _____ is a description of the page) which does calls to mySQL through a different class. Then _____View, which seems to set up some HTML bits, and then _____Template, which is included at the bottom of _____View and just presents all the stuff to the user.

The documentation did not explain the order of these page calls (and it still doesn't; perhaps I should write some explanation), and I don't have access to an object called "context" which I am sure is not in standard PHP because there's a misspelling in its member functions: getAtrributes and setAtrributes. But I can't seem to find where it's defined. Anyway, this context object is used to let _____Action tell _____View the state of the process, but I think he was just setting everything that might be needed, without regard for what might be useful.

The code I found that makes me sure it was all just cut-n-pasted:

                $context->setAtrributes('miscInfo', $inputData);
                $context->setAtrributes('inputData', $inputData);
                $context->setAtrributes('error_msg', $error_msg);

Why would he set $inputData into the $context object under both 'miscInfo' and 'inputData' when there is also a variable called $miscInfo, which means the code obviously should be

                $context->setAtrributes('miscInfo', $miscInfo);
                $context->setAtrributes('inputData', $inputData);
                $context->setAtrributes('error_msg', $error_msg);