/me smells $@, $#, $$, $' and stuff. :| I don't really mind PHP being a bit verbose. At 15:10 7/2/2001, Zeev Suraski wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >(a) I agree that the names are long >(b) Remember that you can change the name by simply assigning it around (e.g., $GET_A >= $HTTP_GET_VARS) >(c) I think that $GET_A is ugly :) I'd go for something along the lines of $__GET >(d) Having these variables available on every function means that it's going to slow >things down, so it's a no-no. What we can do is do something along the lines of >$GLOBALS - where it is available in every function that *uses* it. The drawback here >is that it means it will not be available via indirect reference (i.e., $foo = >"__GET", $$foo["bar"]). I don't think it's a serious drawback though. > >Zeev > >At 15:07 2/7/2001, Derick Rethans wrote: >>Hello list, >> >>sometimes I use PHP too, and today I noticed the things I described here. >>Per coincidence, Jani, who is working on the new bugsystem, had the same >>thoughts about this. I'll describe the problem now: >> >>All the arrays which hold the vars are not in de global name space, you >>you will always need to use the "global" keyword, or something like >>$GLOBALS["HTTP_SESSION_VARS"]["username"]; As you all can see, that's way >>to long and cumbersome to type. Just see this example: >> >>global $HTTP_GET_VARS; >>global $HTTP_POST_VARS; >>global $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS; >> >>if( empty($HTTP_GET_VARS['PHPSESSID']) && >> empty($HTTP_POST_VARS['PHPSESSID']) && >> empty($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['PHPSESSID']) && >> !empty($sessid) >> >>I think this looks much better: >>if ( empty ($GET_A['PHPSESSID']) && >> empty ($POST_A['PHPSESSID']) && >> empty ($COOKIE_A['PHPSESSID']) && >> !empty ($sessid)) >> >>I propose to change the names of the arrays and to make these arrays >>available in all functions, this will both eliminate the use of the global >>keyword, and will shorten the names significantly. This will speed op >>coding of course. Our proposal is to use the now second word of the array, >>postfixed by _A (array). >> >>regards, >> >>Jani Taskinen >>Derick Rethans >> >> >>-- >>PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >-- >Zeev Suraski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CTO & co-founder, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/ > > >-- >PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------end of quote------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------- And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files. - Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7 -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
