Quote Originally Posted by torvista View Post
Exactly.
I fail to understand why people still insist on testing their hacks on a working production shop. It's making money, don't mess with it.
It appears everyone's code apart from mine always works first time with no repercussions!
so here's a tip i learned back in '95 when building my first website..
if you name your old file that is working to bak or old you can always go home....
whats the big deal if your precious site is down for 90 sec while you rename your file.... ;~)
i am a craftsman by trade and a premio maestro (old master) told me once its not what
you can make its what you can fix!

data base has to be DL every time you want to work on your site seems like a lot of work
and coordination and not to mention the version of php has to be same .what if you have 2or 3
sites on different servers with versions of mysql or php?

of course i hack the files locally cause my editor makes all the functions ,
commands and variables such pretty colors,
but the time to find the file and download & upload time can be cut
down as said , as a easy way to DL the file to hack.
you've already searched and have the file location in the title location heading
it just has to be a clickable link.

anyway thanks for the chat