Re: [PHP] Constants in class definitions

[Toro Hill]

Hi Adam.
I was wondering if using defined constants in class definitions
is completely legal (or even good practice) in PHP. 
I've looked throught the PHP documentation and from what I can
tell it is legal.
However, I've had some problems with Turck MMCache and class definitions
that are similar to above. I suspect that it's probably a bug with 
MMCache but I wanted to check to make sure that the code was completely
correct. 

I also use MMCache, mind sharing the problems you are experiencing?
Here's the situation:
PHP 4.3.4
Apache 1.3.29
MMCache 2.4.6
I'm ending up with some garbage in certain class variables. 
The code runs fine without MMCache disabled.
There seems to be a very specific circumstances under which the error occurs. 
Namely:
1. The constants must be defined in a seperate file.
2. The member array ($stuff, refer below) must be populated in the class definition, not the class constructor 
3. index.php can't be modified after apache has been started. If I touch index.php then the problem disappears, but then if I restart apache the problem reappears. 

If you want to see the output of the script go to http://outreach.net.nz/test/

Here's the MMCache configuration:
extension="mmcache.so"
;shm_size="0" defaults to the OS default, which is 32M on my system
mmcache.shm_size="0"
mmcache.cache_dir="/tmp/mmcache"
mmcache.enable="1"
mmcache.optimizer="1"
mmcache.check_mtime="1"
mmcache.debug="0"
mmcache.filter=""
mmcache.shm_max="0"
mmcache.shm_ttl="0"
mmcache.shm_prune_period="0"
mmcache.shm_only="0"
mmcache.compress="1"
Here's the code:
index.php
<?php
require_once( "include.php" );
class Yep{
	var $stuff = array( 
			HELLO => 'nope', 
			goodbye => 'nah' );
	//var $stuff = array();
	function Yep(){
		/*$this->stuff = array( 
			HELLO => 'nope', 
			goodbye => 'nah' );*/
		echo 'yep constructor<br>';
	}
	function stuff(){
		echo '<pre>';
		var_dump( $this->stuff );
		echo '</pre>';
	}
}
$yepper = new Yep();
$yepper->stuff();
echo '<br>';
var_dump( $yepper );
?>

include.php
<?php
define( 'HELLO', 'hello' );
define( 'goodbye', 'GOODBYE' );
?>
Thanks for the offer to share.
Toro
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