Open Source Saves the Day Again

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Buddha443556
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Open Source Saves the Day Again

Post by Buddha443556 »

There's just something great about being able to fix your own problems without waiting for anyone. I was using CSSTidy to compress/format a bunch of CSS files and I notice a problem. It was screwing up Microsoft's "zoom" property. I went to the site reported the bug and found the source code. It took me longer to report the bug than to download the source, fix the code and compile it. Without open source I'd probably be reinventing the wheel right now.

So how has Open Source saved your day?
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Let me get rid of Windows. :lol:
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

We use Sybase at work, and many of the procedures that drive our account management application I am building return either multiple result sets or a result set and a status code. The Sybase extension for PHP is horribly lacking, and out of the box does not handle multiple result sets at all.

So I did a search and found that someone had hacked the Sybase extension to allow for handling of multiple result sets. So I downloaded the new extension, compiled it and bing, multiple result sets without a problem. Then I hacked ADODBLite to handle multiple result sets (for both Sybase and MySQLi), and my like is golden.

I love open source. :D
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