RE: PHP - How Practical Is This?
- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 07:14:13 -0400
Such practices make debugging code and maintaining large applications
insanely difficult. It's just a bad thing to do, and is considered a common
scripting/interpreted language thing.
Kind of like goto
Take care,
Sina
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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 6:03 AM
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Subject: Re: PHP - How Practical Is This?
Hi Sina,
What did you mean by your last statement?
Thanks.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:20 PM
Subject: RE: PHP - How Practical Is This?
> Wow, I had totally forgot about this.
>
> So basically, imagine if you wanted to dynamically choose a variable ...
> if,
> let's say, the name of the variable, was itself a variable.
>
> Like this:
>
> $cat = 0;
> $dog = 0;
> $snake = 0;
>
> function incrementCountOfPets($pet)
> {
> $$pet++;
> }
>
>
> Now, if you passed the string "cat" into that function, the cat variable
> would be incremented, but if you passed in the string "dog", the dog
> variable would be incremented.
>
> If you didn't have this feature, you would be forced to using an if
> statement or a switch/case statement block.
>
> It is truly mind boggling how many good design principles languages such
> as
> php can allow one to break, *smile*.
>
> Take care,
> Sina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 7:35 AM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: PHP - How Practical Is This?
>
>
> Hi,
> I don't understand how this works, so I don't know how important or
> practical it is. This is some text from a PHP book I'm reading.
>
> Variable Variables
>
> On occasion, you may want to use a variable whose content can be treated
> dynamically
> as a variable in itself. Consider this typical variable assignment:
> $recipe = "spaghetti";
> Interestingly, you can treat the value spaghetti as a variable by placing
> a
> second
> dollar sign in front of the original variable name and again assigning
> another value:
> $$recipe = "& meatballs";
> This in effect assigns & meatballs to a variable named spaghetti.
> Therefore, the following two snippets of code produce the same result:
> echo $recipe $spaghetti;
> echo $recipe ${$recipe};
> The result of both is the string spaghetti & meatballs.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
> James D Homme, Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc.,
> james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810
>
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