Hi Steve, yes, I am familiar with these concepts; I am just starting to experiment with recursive functions and static variables. Thanks for explaining that once the function is called and completed, the rest of the first call continues executing normally. That is what surprised me.
Martin > No. I told you, that "I'm here" is going to execute any time you call that > function because it's OUTSIDE the if statement. Only statements inside the > if are affected by its conditional. Once the pointer gets to the if, it's > going to check the conditional and, if it's true, as it is the first 10 > times you go through the function, then it will run whatever's inside. If > it's not true, the pointer will look for an else statement to execute, and > then resume running all of the other lines in the function. If you want a > block of code to not run until the conditional is false, then you want to > use an ELSE statement, you don't want to just drop your code after your if, > it doesn't work that way. > > I suggest reading up more on user-defined functions and what terminates them > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.php#functions.user-defined > > And if/then statements > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.php#control-structures.if > -- > S. Keller > UI Engineer > The Health TV Channel, Inc. > (a non - profit organization) > 3820 Lake Otis Pkwy. > Anchorage, AK 99508 > 907.770.6200 ext.220 > 907.336.6205 (fax) > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: www.healthtvchannel.org > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
