1. wordpress-meetup: jonabad mdawaffe MCincubus element photomatt Alex____ neuro` masquerade relle westi|gone saerdna sunny256

#wordpress-meetup was created on Wed May 11 12:44:24 2005.

mdawaffe: relle: you probably saw it, but I finally moved in http://codex.wordpress.org/wpdb_Class

relle: No, not yet - horrible name.

mdawaffe: :) how so?

relle: Can we call it something "else". Fred, Sally, Alex...Moe?

MCincubus: "class" is meaningless if you're not a PHP programmer, I think.

relle: "class" is meaningless even if you are a student. ;-)

neuro`: it is yes

MCincubus: hehe

relle: I call it a shovel.

MCincubus: All people know is that they keep seeing $wpdb-> all over the place

relle: Not me. I see nothing. I know nothing. I am nothing.

mdawaffe: Since my intent was to add it as part of the Dev Docs, I figured a dev type name wasn't so bad

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MCincubus: mdawaffe, hm, perhaps not, in that case.

relle: So Devspeak is okay only for Devs now.

MCincubus: is spoiled by ezSQL

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mdawaffe: relle: It's not meant to be elitist or exclusionary, that's just what the thing is called. I'm open to other ideas.

mdawaffe: MCincubus: perhaps not what? not ok?

relle: Interfacing With the Database

MCincubus: mdawaffe, perhaps it's not "so bad" ;-)

mdawaffe: MCincubus: ah :)

relle: Talking Database Talk?

relle: The Database Speaks to Us

relle: I don't know what it is so I am useless until I read it.

photomatt: Database Class?

neuro`: hello photomatt

relle: One more word, photomatt, and that might be the title.

mdawaffe: relle: Carthik, Owen and I had a discussion on wp-docs about referencing things by what they do vs/ what they're called

photomatt: is there a there word minimum to get in the door/

relle: Do what does this DO?

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photomatt: howdy neuro`

mdawaffe: I think the consensus for the dev doc section was to try to name things by what they were called, with referenced in the articles, section headers, and links to those articles about what they did

relle: Database Class _______?

MCincubus: nearly everything, relle ;-)

photomatt: Database Class Sucks

relle: lol

mdawaffe: the wpdb class is a set of PHP bits that makes interfacing with the database easy

photomatt: it's what it's called and what it does

mdawaffe: haha

relle: Database Class Bits

relle: :-)

relle: Interfacing with the Database ain't right...cuz that's like explaining MySQL stuff.

mdawaffe: i don't have a good functional definition for a PHP class

mdawaffe: anyone?

photomatt: I think the current name is FINE, we worry too much about names

photomatt: people search for everything anyway

photomatt: as long as the synonyms are in the article, it's groovy

skippy: " A class is a collection of variables and functions working with these variables" http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.php

relle: Until YOU are the one writing the link for that goobly gook over and over again.

relle: Database - the wpdb Class

mdawaffe: Sounds about like "set of PHP bits" to me :)

relle: I'll look at it later and give you some recommendations, mdawaffe.

mdawaffe: relle: ok

photomatt: probably a better question is whether developer/hacker documentation belongs in the codex anyway

jonabad: it does

jonabad: if its not in the codex, where should it go?

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