Just did some work on the code behind this page (which I bravely – and foolishly – write myself in php); if I did everything right nothing much should have changed. And indeed it appears to be working still. Most of the changes mainly affect when I log in to add things, and those seem to be working too.
Strange, the differences between coding in PHP, and in ASP.NET which I’m still working on for The Giving Card. PHP is all manual – I use BBEdit (“It doesn’t suck”) for editing, and I edit code in place – when I make a change it just works. With ASP.NET I’m using Visual Studio, and I have to compile and test locally; once it tests okay, I have to FTP it up to the actual website. But the main difference seems to be that in PHP nothing is hidden – what I write is what I get. ASP does a bunch of translation before things get to screen, so “view code” shows me all sorts of junk that I haven’t written. Actually the biggest difference is probably that PHP lacks my underlying deep resentment of all things Microsoft.