alt sounds like alternator ;)
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Paul M Foster <pa...@quillandmouse.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 03:23:19PM +0100, Tom Calpin wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've just started looking at the code of an e-commerce site we are taking
> > over the development of, that another company has previously developed .
> > Coupled with the difficulty of taking over development of someone else's
> > code (also poorly commented), I've been stumped by a fatal error on a
> > function call alt() which is dotted everywhere in the main templating
> script
> > (sample below):
> >
> > // Get/Set a specific property of a page
> > function getPageProp($prop,$id="") { return
> > $this->PAGES[alt($id,$this->getPageID())][$prop]; }
> > function setPageProp($prop,$val,$id="") {
> > $this->PAGES[alt($id,$this->getPageID())][$prop]=$val; }
> >
> > It looks to be defining properties for a list of pages, with each page
> > providing its own PageID.
> >
> > I've never seen this function before, nor can I find any definition of it
> in
> > the site code, I was wondering if anyone recognises this, is it from a
> > thirdparty templating tool at all?
>
> It's been suggested you do a thorough search for this function, but the
> fact that PHP isn't finding it in the first place leads me to believe it
> isn't there. If that's the case, I'd suggest you make up your own alt()
> function that does what you think this one is doing (maybe just return
> the passed variable). You'll have to decide where to put it that's
> visible in all the places where it's called.
>
> Paul
>
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