Going Back…To Old Methods

I’ve been teaching a very close friend how to program recently.  As we got close to beginning a full-fledged project (which we’ll be starting to show off sometime in February), he gave me a request.  For the most part, I’ve been showing him how to use N2F Yverdon through the lessons because of a pre-existing foundation in PHP syntax.  His request was to go back to the way I “did things before” so he could see where N2F was born.

My immediate response was a simple look of horror and sharp intake of breath.  Get rid of my beloved framework?  Go back to complete manual sanitization for data?  Use mysql_query() calls!?

After I was recovered from the shock, I realized that this is a great opportunity (or excuse) to revisit those old methods and remind myself of the very things that I hope to make unnecessary with N2F.  I agreed to the challenge, and my grin seemed to frighten my friend thoroughly.

To say it will be interesting doing this is probably an understatement, but I’ll be sure to keep you all up to date on the project’s progress.  Has anyone else done something similar?

 

- Andy