[ale] PHP Guru

[Mike Harrison]

> still have parentheses and commas in them.  This is why I always alias SQL 
> function calls into human readable names if I plan to address the result by 
> name rather than by column number.

Please don't EVER use column numbers, and don't ever use "select *" for 
something in real code. You want to make your database schema and column 
order irrelevant.

And some people in this lists jaws dropped, because they remember when I 
used to do both.