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[joshmccormack at travelersdiary.com]

You may be right, you may be wrong, but after presenting information, if your client decides that he wants it a particular way, if at all possible, do it. He's paying you to develop his code, right? I mean, if it's in part your business it's different. Otherwise, give him what he wants. Don't worry if it's not correct, if that's what he insists on.

Josh

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Phil Powell wrote:

> ...am I cursed?
> 
> Another client is threatening to "delete everything" calling my work a "waste of time".  There is, however, one possible sane reason for this, and I need to get some PHP guru advice on how to handle this.
> 
> You have ordered one item and placed it into your cart.  Let's say you ordered one small black t-shirt.  Your cart will have the product_id, color_id and size_id for the small black t-shirt.  The quantity of this item is, let's say 30.  You have one in your cart, so how many are available:
> 
> 1) 29
> 2) 30
> 
> Now let's say that while I ordered one small black t-shirt, Sven ordered 1 small black t-shirt, Anders ordered one black t-shirt, and Olov ordered one black t-shirt.  If all four of us, at one time, are all ordering the same item and putting it into our carts, how many should there be available to us:
> 
> 1) 26
> 2) 25
> 3) 29
> 4) 30
> 
> This is where the contention comes in.  The client wants it done "FIFO" (First In First Out) meaning that whoever gets it first will subtract the quantity - but I dispute that (coming from somewhat of a Java background) that since PHP doesn't so single-threading, that means that all four of us could order t-shirts,  but the quantity has to reflect that all four of us are ordering (multi-threading).
> 
> I dunno, help!
> 
> Phil