Re: [PHP] is there anyway to use constants in a string?

2004-07-20 Thread Justin Patrin 
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:31:19 -0400, Jason Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I was working on something else tonight when I literally stumbled across another
 solution that works here... pick your poison:
 
 ?php
 $heredoc = XML
 ?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1 ?
 root
node attribute=I am an attribute
  textI am a text node./text
/node
dynamic
  string1%1\$s/string1
  string1%1\$s/string1
  string2%2\$s/string2
  integer%3\$d/integer
/dynamic
 /root
 XML;
 
 echo 'pre';
 define ('string1', 'Well looky here, some text.');
 define ('string2', 'Man, I wish I could be a knight who said nee!');
 define ('integer', 123452345.23232);
 
 $xml = sprintf($heredoc, string1, string2, integer);
 
 print_r(htmlentities($xml));
 
 ?
 

You don't need the print_r as it's a string.

Ugh, sprintf. It's a *lot* slower than using concatenation. Besides
which, you don't need that heredoc syntax. Just use quotes. PHP allows
you to have a newline in a quoted string.

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Re: [PHP] is there anyway to use constants in a string?

2004-07-19 Thread Justin Patrin 
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:22:42 -0700, barophobia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 hello.
 
 ?php
 
 define(MY_CONSTANT, http://google.com/;);
 
 $my_string = QQQ
 
 MY_CONSTANT: does not work for obvious reasons
 {MY_CONSTANT}: does not work for obvious reasons
 {$MY_CONSTANT}: does not work for obvious reasons
 
 QQQ;
 
 ?
 

$my_string = 'pre'.MY_CONSTANT.'post';

 here are my options:
 
 1. assign the constant to a temporary variable and then use that.
 
 i.e. $tmp_MY_CONSTANT = MY_CONSTANT;
 
 2. use an array instead of a constant
 
 i.e. $config['MY_CONSTANT'] = http://google.com/;;
 
 3. find some secret way to work around the above two options and keep
 my constants.
 
 anybody have any ideas to share?
 
 chris.
 
 p.s. if you don't know the obvious reasons just say so and i (or
 someone else) will explain.
 
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Re: [PHP] is there anyway to use constants in a string?

2004-07-19 Thread barophobia 
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:48:02 -0700, Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:22:42 -0700, barophobia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  $my_string = QQQ
 
  MY_CONSTANT: does not work for obvious reasons
  {MY_CONSTANT}: does not work for obvious reasons
  {$MY_CONSTANT}: does not work for obvious reasons
 
  QQQ;

 $my_string = 'pre'.MY_CONSTANT.'post';

yeah but did you notice in my example i'm using a heredoc? i did that
on purpose. :)



chris.

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Re: [PHP] is there anyway to use constants in a string?

2004-07-19 Thread Justin Patrin 
Yes, I know. You can't use defined constants within a normal string,
so it won't work in a heredoc either:

define('FOO', 'bar');
echo show me FOO;

You have to use:
echo 'show me '.FOO;

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:05:40 -0700, barophobia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:48:02 -0700, Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:22:42 -0700, barophobia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   $my_string = QQQ
  
   MY_CONSTANT: does not work for obvious reasons
   {MY_CONSTANT}: does not work for obvious reasons
   {$MY_CONSTANT}: does not work for obvious reasons
  
   QQQ;
 
  $my_string = 'pre'.MY_CONSTANT.'post';
 
 yeah but did you notice in my example i'm using a heredoc? i did that
 on purpose. :)
 
 chris.
 
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Re: [PHP] is there anyway to use constants in a string?

2004-07-19 Thread Jason Barnett 
I was working on something else tonight when I literally stumbled across another 
solution that works here... pick your poison:

?php
$heredoc = XML
?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1 ?
root
  node attribute=I am an attribute
textI am a text node./text
  /node
  dynamic
string1%1\$s/string1
string1%1\$s/string1
string2%2\$s/string2
integer%3\$d/integer
  /dynamic
/root
XML;
echo 'pre';
define ('string1', 'Well looky here, some text.');
define ('string2', 'Man, I wish I could be a knight who said nee!');
define ('integer', 123452345.23232);
$xml = sprintf($heredoc, string1, string2, integer);
print_r(htmlentities($xml));
?
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