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網站製作學習誌 » [Web] 連結分享 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:33:51 +0000

[...] Stupid PHP Tricks: Illegal Variable Names [...]

By: SayB

SayB — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:21:29 +0000

@Dav – FYI I say this after experimenting in Cake. It sure was swell not having to write all those dreaded $this->set() statements for each var :( – doh !

By: SayB

SayB — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:18:51 +0000

Hey Guys, I’ve noticed this weird behavior with php’s compact function. It simply does not work with variables that either have underscore in the name OR if they have one or more letters in caps or both. For example, $my_name won’t work, $MyName won’t work either but $myname works fine – anybody got a clue ?

By: Q

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:24:40 +0000

oh dear… compact() *gah*

it ranks up there or rather down there with eval()

thanks for adding the following comment to ur post:

“Please note: if you use any of this in production code – and that includes compact() – I will come to your house and beat you with something heavy.”

I hope your readers take careful note… and the world cringes

By: Mads Skovbjerg Paldam

Mads Skovbjerg Paldam — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:57:58 +0000

This odd piece of apparently useless information makes for a nice trick-question in the “knowing absolutely everything there is to know about PHP quiz”… Thanks!

By: Dav

Dav — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:46:05 +0000

Dude, what’s wrong with compact()? Can be used to greatly clean up code in Frameworks like Cake. :o)

$this->set(compact(‘data’, ‘moredata’, ‘evenmoredata’));

By: Mike Borozdin

Mike Borozdin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:43:38 +0000

Funny :). But not very useful.

By: david

david — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:49:16 +0000

Yeah, I could have used var_dump($GLOBALS);, but then how would I have gotten a dig at compact() in? :)

By: Kia Kroas

Kia Kroas — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:14:40 +0000

Instead of print_r(compact(…)); why don’t you use var_dump(); ?

By: SeanJA

SeanJA — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:25:46 +0000

I tried using compact once… It just screwed up my code, so I changed my mind about using it… good thing too apparently…