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<chapter id="ljp.prog-guide.general">
<title>General</title>
<itemizedlist>
<title>General</title>
<listitem><para>
BML pages shouldn't interface with the database much. <footnote><para>See <xref linkend="ljp.dbschema.index" /></para></footnote>.
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Always use the <function>LJ::</function> functions that take an explicit database handle. Don't use the old <function>main::</function> functions that use the global $dbh.
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<listitem><para>
All files should have <sgmltag>&lt;LJDEP&gt;</sgmltag> edge dependency somewhere, usually at the bottom.
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<listitem><para>
Using userids (integers) for things is better than using users (strings), except in URL arguments, where pretty is more important than speed.
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<listitem><para>
In BML page, use BML blocks defined in global.look: LJUSER, P, H1, H2, STANDOUT, HR, etc...
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<listitem><para>
All HTML should be XHTML compliant.:
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Lower case, <acronym>XML</acronym> compliant tags: <informalexample><para><sgmltag>&lt;br /&gt;</sgmltag> instead of <sgmltag>&lt;BR&gt;</sgmltag></para></informalexample>
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Quotes around attributes &lt;span class="test"&gt;
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<listitem><para>
No bare &amp; chars ... always escape them: &amp;amp; and &lt;a href="foo.bml?a=1&amp;amp;b=2"&gt;...&lt;/a&gt;
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<listitem><para>
Use of multiple files to do one function is deprecated. There should no longer be "foo.bml" and "foo_do.bml" like there used to. That's ugly.
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<listitem><para>
Tab is a formatting command, not a character <footnote><para>See: <ulink url="http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html" /></para></footnote>. There should be spaces in the files, not tab characters.
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<listitem><para>
All subs in a package need LJFUNC documentation. All tables in the database need schema documentation. All files need LJDEP documentation.
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</itemizedlist>
</chapter>