Interesting!! :) My programming get away... The Blog... DirectX for WinRT/C# since 2013! Taking over the world since 1371!

Having originally started with C, I too prefer returning an error code to be cleaner than catching exceptions, but I'm sure others see exceptions as the true C++ method for handling errors.

Is there any chance you could get him a job with Paypal? Please? Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

Yes, and the whole software even more. As I wrote in another part of this 'series' he managed to do really everything wrong which is possible - in fact he wrote the How-Not-To of programming. I don't know where to start, so much he did wrong. E.g. there is no checking and no escaping of parameters, GET and POST parameters are written directly in the query. Depending on the PHP configuration is is possible to delete whole tables via SQL-injection. And, pretty nice, every user has an account with virtual money. But this will be part 4..

Charvak Karpe wrote: but in the real world probably 90% of the population can tell what you're doing if you do 24 * 60 * 60 You haven't worked with some of the developers I work with now. No, they couldn't tell you what that code was doing... seriously. A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak

I **really** like the second one.

Thanks Mike. Looks like reporting bugs is sometimes harder than finding them ;)