Today I learned

[cluelessPHP]

Today I learned if you have an htaccess file it may bugger up other folders on the same server, not sure if that counts as doh or not

[Weedpacket]

...about A/2017 U1.

[NogDog]

Weedpacket;11064581 wrote:

...about A/2017 U1.

Since the forum censored you link, I'll throw in this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/2017_U1

[Weedpacket]

Today I learned that "press‐release" is a swear word.

[cluelessPHP]

Today I learned I wasn't invited to my own graduation...

[cluelessPHP]

cluelessPHP;11064589 wrote:

Today I learned I wasn't invited to my own graduation...

Which equates to, don't assume something just because you "think" it should happen....unless it's CSS but you can always play around in console panel and fix it :p

[Weedpacket]

Today I learned what the round things are.
[video=youtube;-0QYXrJ6bTI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0QYXrJ6bTI[/video]
....Nope. Still no idea.

[cluelessPHP]

Today I learned don't ask about validation on SO proofs :p

[dalecosp]

cluelessPHP;11064607 wrote:

Today I learned don't ask about validation on SO proofs :p

The answer is "both". For security you do it on the back-end (PHP, or whatever the server is running); but you also do it on the front-end for UI/UX, because nobody wants to fill out a form, accidentally miss one field, and then endure a page load and possible loss of form data and have to do the whole freaking form again....

It's the same common courtesy extended by a teacher/professor who, when you hand in your semester final exam, takes a quick look and says, "You forgot to put your name on top" ... and hands it back for this quick correction.

And yeah, I guess S.O. has its place (it's certainly 'carved one out' for itself), but you'll find that at least here we're a tad forgiving and don't have these draconian policies about duplicated content, question quality, etc.

Of course, those were the issues programmers always HATED about help forums, so that explains, in large part, how SO was able to carve that niche so quickly and so deeply ....

[Weedpacket]

dalecosp wrote:

It's the same common courtesy extended by a teacher/professor who, when you hand in your semester final exam, takes a quick look and says, "You forgot to put your name on top" ... and hands it back for this quick correction.

Or like those more complicated forms around taxes or insurance policies that have an extra page checklisting what the form's designers must have reckoned were the most common mistakes form-fillers made.

[cluelessPHP]

dalecosp;11064619 wrote:

The answer is "both". For security you do it on the back-end (PHP, or whatever the server is running); but you also do it on the front-end for UI/UX, because nobody wants to fill out a form, accidentally miss one field, and then endure a page load and possible loss of form data and have to do the whole freaking form again....

No no I meant like

     <input type="text" name="username" placeholder="Username" id="username" pattern="^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]{2,10}$" required title="Usernames must be between three and ten characters long and may not include symobls" autofocus="autofocus" onchange="validateUsername()">

function validateUsername(username, error){
        var username = document.getElementById("username").value,
        error = document.getElementById("usernameErr");

   if(username == null || username==""){   

    return error.innerHTML = "Username is required";
    return false;
   }
    else if(!username.match(/^[0-9a-z]{3,}$/)){
    return error.innerHTML = "Username must be three characters long";
    return false;
   }
   else{
       return error.innerHTML = "";
       return true;
   }
}

I know kool kids validate twice, once client side and once server side :p

[dalecosp]

cluelessPHP;11064625 wrote:

No no I meant like

     <input type="text" name="username" placeholder="Username" id="username" pattern="^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]{2,10}$" required title="Usernames must be between three and ten characters long and may not include symobls" autofocus="autofocus" onchange="validateUsername()">

function validateUsername(username, error){
        var username = document.getElementById("username").value,
        error = document.getElementById("usernameErr");

   if(username == null || username==""){   

    return error.innerHTML = "Username is required";
    return false;
   }
    else if(!username.match(/^[0-9a-z]{3,}$/)){
    return error.innerHTML = "Username must be three characters long";
    return false;
   }
   else{
       return error.innerHTML = "";
       return true;
   }
}

I know kool kids validate twice, once client side and once server side :p

Then why the question? 🙂

If you've written one client-side validation routine, don't bother doing another. The "HTML5" method is merely the browser manufacturers packing more and more traditional JavaScript functionality into HTML, so that "you don't have to hire a programmer to build a website" ... which we're all pretty sure is still malarkey, but it sells software for a lot of people (WIXcough) ....

I swear there's not a domain registry anymore that doesn't send you 10 emails about "build your site in just MINUTES" within 48 hours of you registering a domain name...

[cluelessPHP]

dalecosp;11064631 wrote:

Then why the question? 🙂

When was the last time you knew me not to question EVERYTHING I do? (at least five dozen times if not more) :p

[dalecosp]

cluelessPHP;11064633 wrote:

When was the last time you knew me not to question EVERYTHING I do? (at least five dozen times if not more) :p

Touche.

But DRY when possible 🙂

[cluelessPHP]

dalecosp;11064635 wrote:

But DRY when possible 🙂

I know I know, the only one of you who hasn't said it by now is Weedpacket lol, it's a hobby for me now it'll never be up to "professional" standards :p

[NogDog]

I'd wager somewhere around 85%* of current professional web developers started as hobbyists.

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• Note that approx. 68.35% of all statistics are made up.

[cluelessPHP]

NogDog;11064641 wrote:

Note that approx. 68.35% of all statistics are made up.

There is a 100% chance I'll have cake for my dinner tonight :p

[dalecosp]

NogDog;11064641 wrote:

I'd wager somewhere around 85%* of current professional web developers started as hobbyists.

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• Note that approx. 68.35% of all statistics are made up.

Are you sure that's accurate?

http://floating-point-gui.de/

😃

[laserlight]

cluelessPHP;11064643 wrote:

There is a 100% chance I'll have cake for my dinner tonight :p

So, did you have cake for dinner, or did the oven have a technical problem, the baker had an emergency to attend to, etc?

[Weedpacket]

I think he was lying.