Re: [PHP] unset in foreach breaks recrusion

2008-06-29 Thread Per Jessen
David Sky wrote: > Hello everyone! > > A couple of days ago I submitted a bug to PHP > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45385 > But I was mistaken, apparently it's not a bug. > And I was "sent" here to get help. > [snip] > So before I write a reply to the bug i submitted, I wanted to know > if ther

[PHP] unset in foreach breaks recrusion

2008-06-29 Thread David Sky
Hello everyone! A couple of days ago I submitted a bug to PHP http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45385 But I was mistaken, apparently it's not a bug. And I was "sent" here to get help. Although I did tried what was suggested in the response, Actually I tried it before I wrote about the bug, as I foun

[PHP] CURL de-bugging: So why am I not getting the results page on the target site?

2008-06-29 Thread ioannes
For those that like CURL and calendars. Using CURL, I am accessing a form on a 'target' third party site (it is built around JavaScript DHTML DatePicker) and trying to POST various date and other inputs from its form and return the results page to my site for further processing with php. Howe

[PHP] Re: Early return (was: Inspiration for a Tombstone.)

2008-06-29 Thread Colin Guthrie
Robert Cummings wrote: I'm a big fan of multiple early returns whenever possible, but once the code becomes more complex holding back until the end if possible. I find multiple early returns are very easy to read and then the purpose of the code doesn't get lost within the convolution of the logi

Re: [PHP] Re: Early return (was: Inspiration for a Tombstone.)

2008-06-29 Thread paragasu
i am a big fan of multiple return. it save a lot of my time and it makes my code a lot more simple and readable. On 6/29/08, Roberto Costumero Moreno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a point between Multiple & early return vs. One last return, which > is Efficiency. > > Imagine you have a cod

Re: [PHP] Re: Early return (was: Inspiration for a Tombstone.)

2008-06-29 Thread Roberto Costumero Moreno
There is a point between Multiple & early return vs. One last return, which is Efficiency. Imagine you have a code which makes lots of things. What is better in time? If you have early returns, your script will only do the operations it has to, nothing more than it has to do. If you have your da

[PHP] Re: Early return (was: Inspiration for a Tombstone.)

2008-06-29 Thread tedd
At 3:25 PM +0100 6/29/08, Colin Guthrie wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: Why not? I do this often, but I am not a professional programmer. I find this to be very useful. Found another opinion/article about this. I remember reading this one a while back: http://whatimean.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/mu

Re: [PHP] Re: Early return (was: Inspiration for a Tombstone.)

2008-06-29 Thread Robert Cummings
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 17:47 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/6/29 Colin Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> > >> Why not? I do this often, but I am not a professional programmer. I > >> find this to be very useful. > > > > Found another opinion/article about this. I remember re

Re: [PHP] Re: Early return (was: Inspiration for a Tombstone.)

2008-06-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/29 Colin Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >> Why not? I do this often, but I am not a professional programmer. I >> find this to be very useful. > > Found another opinion/article about this. I remember reading this one a > while back: > > http://whatimean.wordpress.com/20

[PHP] Re: Early return (was: Inspiration for a Tombstone.)

2008-06-29 Thread Colin Guthrie
Dotan Cohen wrote: Why not? I do this often, but I am not a professional programmer. I find this to be very useful. Found another opinion/article about this. I remember reading this one a while back: http://whatimean.wordpress.com/2007/02/08/multiple-return-points-are-bad/ Like I said befor

[PHP] Re: Early return (was: Inspiration for a Tombstone.)

2008-06-29 Thread Colin Guthrie
Dotan Cohen wrote: Even your example above hints at another "political" minefield - Early Return or Multiple Return Points (s/Return/Exit/ in this case) Let's not even go there!!! Why not? I do this often, but I am not a professional programmer. I find this to be very useful. I think thi

Re: [PHP] Early return (was: Inspiration for a Tombstone.)

2008-06-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/29 tedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Start a new thread. > Done, sorry for the highjack. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting

[PHP] Early return (was: Inspiration for a Tombstone.)

2008-06-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/29 Colin Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> In these instances you could rely on != behaviour instead of == >> behaviour, like this: >> >> > if ($challenge_password_hash != $stored_password_hash) { >> echo 'Stay out! This club is for members only!'; >> } else { >> echo 'Welcome to the club!

Re: [PHP] Early return (was: Inspiration for a Tombstone.)

2008-06-29 Thread tedd
At 3:30 PM +0300 6/29/08, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/6/29 Colin Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Even your example above hints at another "political" minefield - Early Return or Multiple Return Points (s/Return/Exit/ in this case) Let's not even go there!!! Why not? I do this often, but I a

[PHP] Early return (was: Inspiration for a Tombstone.)

2008-06-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/29 Colin Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> In these instances you could rely on != behaviour instead of == >> behaviour, like this: >> >> > if ($challenge_password_hash != $stored_password_hash) { >> echo 'Stay out! This club is for members only!'; >> } else { >> echo 'Welcome to the club!

[PHP] Re: Inspiration for a Tombstone.

2008-06-29 Thread Colin Guthrie
Dotan Cohen wrote: As far as the programming practice that Colin was advocating, it is not a bad habit. And as far as the computer is concerned, the efficiency is a wash since the number of internal steps probably doesn't change much. However, it doesn't always work. (I know - no one claimed it d

Re: [PHP] Adding new encodings to mbstring?

2008-06-29 Thread Per Jessen
Haluk AKIN wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to add new character encodings to mbstring? > http://us.php.net/mbstring > > If it is possible, then is there a procedure where I can submit "new > feature" requests? > Or is it possible for me to add the new character encodings myself? You can cer