Coding Horrors: You can gather all your technical debt into one easy framework!

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noonches: Dec 5, 2005; It represents my lifestyle and stratus as a street savy irreverent youth, who lives large, and yet hungers for the next level in life.

code:

<select ="prefix">
    <option value="<?=$_SESSION['prefix']?>"><?=$_SESSION['prefix']?></option>
    <option value="mr">mr</option>
    <option value="mrs">mrs</option>
    <option value="ms">ms</option>
    <option value="dr">dr</option>
</select>

So I guess rather than just adding "selected" with like a tiny piece of code, it's trying to add the option you had previously selected to the top so it defaults to the selected one.

It's not that bad, it's just irritatingly lazy.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2008 04:42

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 07:21

noonches: Dec 5, 2005; It represents my lifestyle and stratus as a street savy irreverent youth, who lives large, and yet hungers for the next level in life.

<?=($_SESSION['prefix']=="")?"selected":""?>

One of those per line is not that much, esp since it's a cut and paste job and avoids a nasty dupliacte.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2008 05:35

noonches: Dec 5, 2005; It represents my lifestyle and stratus as a street savy irreverent youth, who lives large, and yet hungers for the next level in life.

Scaevolus posted:

On principle, using eval is always wrong.

In practice, it usually is too.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2008 04:56

noonches: Dec 5, 2005; It represents my lifestyle and stratus as a street savy irreverent youth, who lives large, and yet hungers for the next level in life.

I'm guessing this was generated by dreamweaver, or I hope it was, at least. If someone wrote this, they should be shot, regardless of if it works.

code:

<select name="TshirtSize"<option>-Size-
<option>SS<option>S<option>M<option>L<option>XL<option>XXL
</select>

It's not so bad, in itself, but I just inherited a form with about 30 of these for various options, and debating if it really annoys me enough to try to fix them all.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2008 00:54

noonches: Dec 5, 2005; It represents my lifestyle and stratus as a street savy irreverent youth, who lives large, and yet hungers for the next level in life.

Dazzling Double V posted:

A classmate tragically misunderstands how HTML works. He even tried to match the syntax coloring from the tutorial he was using. This was the culmination of his efforts before giving up and switching to iWeb.

Wait, is that what his code looks like, or did he use some composer to create a page to display the code like that?

# ¿ May 2, 2008 01:27

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 07:21

noonches: Dec 5, 2005; It represents my lifestyle and stratus as a street savy irreverent youth, who lives large, and yet hungers for the next level in life.

Which part is a horror, the logging in from just setting a GET var, or the passing of a filename in the query string? They're both pretty awful.

# ¿ May 10, 2008 00:23

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