Re: [PHP] Dumb Question - Casting

2010-02-18 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 09:47 -0600, Chuck wrote: Sorry, been doing heavy perl and haven't written any PHP in 3 years so a tad rusty. Can someone explain why the second expression in this code snippet evaluates to 7 and not 8? $a = (int) (0.1 +0.7); echo $a\n; $x = (int) ((0.1 + 0.7)

Re: [PHP] Dumb Question - Casting

2010-02-18 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 09:47 -0600, Chuck wrote: Sorry, been doing heavy perl and haven't written any PHP in 3 years so a tad rusty. Can someone explain why the second expression in this code snippet evaluates

Re: [PHP] Dumb Question - Casting

2010-02-18 Thread Daniel Egeberg
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 16:47, Chuck chuck.car...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, been doing heavy perl and haven't written any PHP in 3 years so a tad rusty. Can someone explain why the second expression in this code snippet evaluates to 7 and not 8? $a = (int) (0.1 +0.7); echo $a\n; $x =

Re: [PHP] Dumb Question - Casting

2010-02-18 Thread Joseph Thayne
According to the PHP manual using the same expression, Never cast an unknown fraction to integer, as this can sometimes lead to unexpected results. My guess is that since it is an expression of floating points, that the result is not quite 8 (for whatever reason). Therefore, it is rounded

Re: [PHP] Dumb Question - Casting

2010-02-18 Thread Nathan Rixham
Daniel Egeberg wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 16:47, Chuck chuck.car...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, been doing heavy perl and haven't written any PHP in 3 years so a tad rusty. Can someone explain why the second expression in this code snippet evaluates to 7 and not 8? $a = (int) (0.1 +0.7);

Re: [PHP] DUMB QUESTION I'M SURE

2003-01-02 Thread Tom Rogers
Hi, Friday, January 3, 2003, 4:18:05 PM, you wrote: AF I'm just starting out, this is my script... AF ? AF $name = $_POST['username']; AF $name = $name; AF $db = mysql_connect(localhost); AF mysql_select_db(vinyldealers,$db); AF $query = SELECT shops.name FROM shops WHERE name = .$name.; AF

RE: [PHP] DUMB QUESTION I'M SURE

2003-01-02 Thread Cesar Aracena
Try by adding a backslash to the : there (...\: B...) Cesar L. Aracena [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (0299) 156-356688 Neuquén (8300) Capital Argentina -Mensaje original- De: Adam French [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: viernes, 03 de enero de 2003 3:18 Para: [EMAIL

RE: [PHP] DUMB QUESTION I'M SURE

2003-01-02 Thread Cesar Aracena
What they mean is to make that line: $query = SELECT shops.name FROM shops WHERE name = $name; Cesar L. Aracena [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (0299) 156-356688 Neuquén (8300) Capital Argentina -Mensaje original- De: Adam French [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: viernes, 03

Re: [PHP] DUMB QUESTION I'M SURE

2003-01-02 Thread Jason k Larson
I think it's just the $query var not having the right number of quotes. I added single quotes around the value. ? $name = $_POST['username']; $name = $name; $db = mysql_connect(localhost); mysql_select_db(vinyldealers,$db); $query = SELECT shops.name FROM shops WHERE name = '.$name.'; $result =

RE: [PHP] DUMB QUESTION I'M SURE

2003-01-02 Thread rw
Quoting Cesar Aracena [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ### Try by adding a backslash to the : there (...\: B...) ### ### Cesar L. Aracena ### [EMAIL PROTECTED] ### [EMAIL PROTECTED] ### (0299) 156-356688 ### Neuquén (8300) Capital ### Argentina ### ### ### -Mensaje original- ### De: Adam French

Re: [PHP] Dumb Question

2002-08-31 Thread @ Edwin
My "dumb" answer :) Try Google. Type: "procedural code" You might want to check, "object-oriented" as well... I'm sure, you'll find helpful explanations... - E And I feel foolish asking... What is meant by 'procedural code' ??? -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/

Re: [PHP] Dumb Question

2002-08-31 Thread Gerard Samuel
Google didn't have much to offer. But if I should also check 'object-oriented' then I believe it deals with classes. I thought it was something else. Just trying to figure out if phpdoc is for me, which it seems like its not :( Thanks @ Edwin wrote: My "dumb" answer :) Try Google. Type:

Re: [PHP] Dumb Question

2002-08-31 Thread @ Edwin
Google didn't have much to offer. Sorry 'bout that. Actually, if you have an idea of what OO ("object-oriented") is, I think I can say that "procedural" is just the opposite of it. I tried Google myself and this came out on top: "Writing Procedural Code in Non-Procedural SQL" There's a

Re: [PHP] Dumb Question

2002-08-31 Thread Michael Sims
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:04:11 -0400, you wrote: And I feel foolish asking... What is meant by 'procedural code' ??? It's the opposite of declarative code. Here's a page that briefly explains the difference: http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/DB/SQL/BeginSQL/beginSQL2_1.html and

Re: [PHP] Dumb Question

2002-08-31 Thread Gerard Samuel
Here is my stab at it. One person described it as the opposite of OO. So something similar to - ?php do_this() { // do this code } do_that() { // do that code } if (isset( $_GET['foo'] )) { do_this(); } else { do_that(); } ? would be considered procedural code. If Im wrong I

Re: [PHP] Dumb question

2002-08-21 Thread Bob Irwin
You need to declare $vari as a global variable. eg; ? function getvar() { global $vari; $vari = bollocks; } getvar(); echo $vari; ? Best Regards Bob Irwin Server Admin Web Programmer Planet Netcom - Original Message - From: Liam MacKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Fwd: Re: [PHP] Dumb question]

2002-08-21 Thread David Christensen
---BeginMessage--- ? function getvar() { $vari = bollocks; # this $vari is local to function } $vari = getvar(); # this $vari is in global space echo $vari ? On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 20:35, Bob Irwin wrote: You need to declare $vari as a global variable. eg; ? function getvar()

RE: [PHP] Dumb question on terminology

2002-02-26 Thread Martin Towell
In a nutshell: $row-data is referring to an object, not an array, that has an attribute of $data $row['data'] is an associative array - ie, indexes are non-numerical - with an index of data Martin -Original Message- From: Dean Householder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday,