On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 18:04, Mike Morton wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who responded to me so far, but I fear that I have not
> explained myself too clearly.
> 
> First of all, I understand the argument about having a testing, development
> and live servers, however, in the real world not every client can afford
> that hardware and it is not always feasable for smaller websites to have all
> the equipment.  

This is usually solved with a virtual host which has virtually no impact
on your system -- but provides countless benefits over having a
production and test server rolled into one. I don't see why hardware
would be an issue.

> 
> So, lets base this on the fact that there is one server that has one URL,
> One IP and all development/testing is done on the live website.
> 
> Now that I have that out of the way.
> 
> What I am trying to accomplish is a function that can contain code blocks,
> like an if statement.  Something that would operate like:
> 
> developer_execute() {
>  execute this code only
> }
> 
> Where the function developer_execute would be defined as:
> function developer_execute() {
>     if(getenv("REMOTE_ADDR")=="000.000.000.000") {
>         %body
>     }
> }
> 
> Where the %body is the actual code represented by 'execute this code only'
> above.
> 
> So, the question is, is there a way to create a function like an if function
> that does not only reply on the arguments between the ( and ) in the
> function call?

Forgive me if I'm ignorant, but it appears that you've answered your own
question in the above example -- the case being that it is indeed
possible.

Cheers,
Rob.
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