Date : Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:18:56 +0000
From : rich@... (Rich Mellor)
Subject: New Retro Auction Website
Rob wrote:
> Rich: tried re-doing it, and I can see you are tinkering as things
> keep changing!
>
I am always tinkering and developing new / improved features on the site.
> Not sure why submit button isn't working, but it submits when I hit
> enter on any field ....! And don't you just hate web forms that
> "lose" details like passwords and sccepting T&Cs when they refresh for
> an error elsewhere, so you correct the faulty field and forget to
> re-enter the passwords ....
>
Yes I agree - I will add that to the wish list - it should remember your
password and accepting T&Cs !!
>
>
> I didn't get that far, and it's fixed now, but there are several
> websites that have done that to me! Just trying to think of one off
> the top of my head, but what spring to mind was O2's mobile phone
> online billing site - they did an update once, and it would come up
> with an error mesage every time I logged in, barring me access to my
> bills, until the helpdesk changed the spelling of my surname!
>
> Another sign of a badly written website ... "MS-SQL: Error near ' in
> search query" or words to that effect ...
>
That is one of the reasons why PHP5 automatically escapes quote marks -
adding \ before it - to overcome the use of a form to enter SQL commands
and find out information on the database, or even worse, to corrupt the
database!!
> And as for websites that totally disallow an ' in the name ... argh!
> I had support at one, once, say "we only allow ASCII characters in
> our names, not foreign characters. they soon got short shrift on that
> one... and they fixed it ...
>
>
Reminds me of when we used to use WordPerfect back in the hey day - I
reported that if you do X Y and Z in a document, it ALWAYS results in a
blue screen.
Their response.... "That is not how the manual tells you to do it".
Well bye bye WordPerfect after that - don't they want to fix bugs?
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Rich Mellor
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