Malice

drawmack

Editor's Note: I would never do this but I think it would be fun.

Did you ever see a post asking a really simple question whose answer can be found with about 2 minutes of research and just want to give the world's most rediculous answer?

For Example

Q: How do I page the results from a mysql database
A: Well the best way is to select the IDs write them to an xml file then parse the xml file to find the IDs for the page you want to display and loop through them querying your database with each pass. Please see the attached 200 example file.

piersk

That would be quite an amusing thing to do, but a bit harsh all the same.

Merve

Hey I posted a really dumb question yesterday about str_shuffle() and then I realised that the server I was using has PHP 4.1.2!

That was dumb....

Moonglobe

i haven't yet, and i doubt many on this board would unless it was a VERY stupid question.

but still it would make for a good laugh 😃

drawmack

Originally posted by Merve
Hey I posted a really dumb question yesterday about str_shuffle() and then I realised that the server I was using has PHP 4.1.2!

That was dumb....

if you're talking about This Thread I found that interesting. So interesting in fact that I designed and built a work around for old versions of php then implemented that into the program you were looking for and uploaded it to the thread.

ultraslacker

Odd, I've never done that on a forum and havent even been tempted. Maybe I would if posting on a board were more conducive to off the cuff answers like say on irc...or better yet in person, where I'm often a BOFH.

Weedpacket

Broken Source Posts. I like .... only in a theoretical sense of course, mind you. I'd be reluctant to do it in the real world, same way I'd be reluctant to use "$null=true.true+1;" in the real world.

But then, "ridiculous" can cover so many things. Can one be ridiculously literal-minded?

drawmack

weedpacket, I laughed by nuggets off when I saw that for the first time.

Merve

Thank you for that drawmack...I understand what I have to do now!

drawmack

Merve,
No problem. If someone asks an interesting question I'm more then happy to help them out.

Elizabeth

Ah, dear Weed- what would we do without your smart-ass answers to life's questions. I was rofl. (not literally of course 😉 )

-Elizabeth

drawmack

Originally posted by Merve
Thank you for that drawmack...I understand what I have to do now!

cool my subliminal messages are working.

Merve

Subliminal messages...I'm scared now...but I also feel happy because for the first time in my life I helped a newbie! Usually, I'm the newbie getting helped....