[PHP] What does this mean?

2009-06-26 Thread Jason Carson
Hey all, I'm new to the list and I have a question... What does = mean? The book I am reading is called Programming PHP published by O'Reilly. I haven't read the whole book yet. I was flipping through the pages and in the book there is mention of = (less than or equal) and = (greater than or

Fwd: [PHP] What does this mean?

2009-06-26 Thread Eddie Drapkin
Just getting this back on the list . -- Forwarded message -- From: Eddie Drapkin oorza...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:36 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] What does this mean? To: Jason Carson ja...@jasoncarson.ca It's used in key value combinations in several places. When

[PHP] What does this mean: ?=

2006-04-08 Thread Merlin
Hi there, I am somehow confused about the this command: ?= What does the equetion sigh mean? I would like to replace the ?= sign inside this line: ?= $ajax-loadJsApp(true) ? so I could do something like this: ?php $ajax-loadJsApp(true); echo 'test'; ? But this does not

Re: [PHP] What does this mean: ?=

2006-04-08 Thread Rory Browne
?=expression ? ?php echo expression; ? On 4/8/06, Merlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I am somehow confused about the this command: ?= What does the equetion sigh mean? I would like to replace the ?= sign inside this line: ?= $ajax-loadJsApp(true) ? so I could do

Re: [PHP] What does this mean: ?=

2006-04-08 Thread Dave Goodchild
?= $arse; ? ...is a concise, if less readable way, to echo the value of arse. It is only used to echo a value. To do anything else, for example, call a method, use the second approach you describe. In fact, you already seem to know the difference, so why the question? Are you trying to replace

[PHP] what does this mean? (PHP 4 = 4.0.1, PHP 5)

2006-01-09 Thread Chris
I'm trying to understand function definitions and can't seem to find any reference to the meaning of (PHP 4 = 4.0.1, PHP 5) or variations there of, shown at the beginning of each definition. I get the idea it is telling me that the particular function is supported in PHP 4 5. But what does the

RE: [PHP] what does this mean? (PHP 4 = 4.0.1, PHP 5)

2006-01-09 Thread Erin Fortenberry
= is greater or equal to -Erin -Original Message- From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 9:13 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] what does this mean? (PHP 4 = 4.0.1, PHP 5) I'm trying to understand function definitions and can't seem

Re: [PHP] what does this mean? (PHP 4 = 4.0.1, PHP 5)

2006-01-09 Thread Chris
@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] what does this mean? (PHP 4 = 4.0.1, PHP 5) I'm trying to understand function definitions and can't seem to find any reference to the meaning of (PHP 4 = 4.0.1, PHP 5) or variations there of, shown at the beginning of each definition. I get the idea it is telling me

Re: [PHP] what does this mean? (PHP 4 = 4.0.1, PHP 5)

2006-01-09 Thread Ligaya Turmelle
9:13 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] what does this mean? (PHP 4 = 4.0.1, PHP 5) I'm trying to understand function definitions and can't seem to find any reference to the meaning of (PHP 4 = 4.0.1, PHP 5) or variations there of, shown at the beginning of each definition. I get

[PHP] what does this mean?

2005-02-25 Thread Diana Castillo
on which page of php.net can I find out what this code does? $a = $b? $a :dian; -- Diana Castillo Global Reservas, S.L. C/Granvia 22 dcdo 4-dcha 28013 Madrid-Spain Tel : 00-34-913604039 Ext 216 Fax : 00-34-915228673 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.hotelkey.com

Re: [PHP] what does this mean?

2005-02-25 Thread Jason Barnett
Leif Gregory wrote: Hello Diana, Friday, February 25, 2005, 7:07:29 AM, you wrote: D on which page of php.net can I find out what this code does? D $a = $b? $a :dian; It's called a ternary operator, basically an if-else statement. Note to self: write ternary on the blackboard 100

Re: [PHP] what does this mean?

2005-02-25 Thread Jochem Maas
Diana Castillo wrote: on which page of php.net can I find out what this code does? $a = $b? $a :dian; its a form of if statement called the tertiary form (or something), it does exactly the same as this: if ($b) { $a = $a; } else { $a = dian; } don't know which page its on tho

Re: [PHP] what does this mean?

2005-02-25 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Diana, Friday, February 25, 2005, 7:07:29 AM, you wrote: D on which page of php.net can I find out what this code does? D $a = $b? $a :dian; It's called a ternary operator, basically an if-else statement. There really isn't a page (that I've found) that explains in on php.net, but

RE: [PHP] what does this mean?

2005-02-25 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] on which page of php.net can I find out what this code does? $a = $b? $a :dian; [/snip] It is a ternary IF statement...verbose if ($a = $b){ $a; } else { dian; } -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] what does this mean?

2005-02-25 Thread Jochem Maas
Jason Barnett wrote: Leif Gregory wrote: Hello Diana, Friday, February 25, 2005, 7:07:29 AM, you wrote: D on which page of php.net can I find out what this code does? D $a = $b? $a :dian; It's called a ternary operator, basically an if-else statement. Note to self: write ternary on the

Re: [PHP] what does this mean?

2005-02-25 Thread Guillermo Rauch
Including more than one you can make a complex control structure, not just if else $a = ($a == 0) ? ($b $a ) ? $b : $a :$c; On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:26:51 -0600, Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] on which page of php.net can I find out what this code does? $a = $b? $a :dian;

RE: [PHP] what does this mean?

2005-02-25 Thread Chris W. Parker
Jochem Maas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Friday, February 25, 2005 12:31 PM said: I thought 'tertiary' also - I could remember the 'other' name... I was under the impression that both names were valid.. anyone know if this is true? google brings up relevant hits for both, from what I

Re: [PHP] what does this mean?

2005-02-25 Thread Leif Gregory
Hello Jason, Friday, February 25, 2005, 12:42:30 PM, you wrote: J Note to self: write ternary on the blackboard 100 times. You're telling me. I knew what it was but it took me like five minutes to remember what it was called! grin -- Leif (TB lists moderator and fellow end user). Using The

[PHP] [php] What does PHP mean?

2004-11-22 Thread John Taylor-Johnston
I'm writing an article where I'm going to explain what PHP is in a short sentence. PHP once meant Personal Home Page, right? PHP, originally an anacronym for Personal Home Page, is a textual, general-purpose scripting language (www.PHP.net) designed to collect and process data between HTML

Re: [PHP] [php] What does PHP mean?

2004-11-22 Thread John Holmes
John Taylor-Johnston wrote: I'm writing an article where I'm going to explain what PHP is in a short sentence. PHP once meant Personal Home Page, right? PHP, originally an anacronym for Personal Home Page, is a textual, general-purpose scripting language (www.PHP.net) designed to collect and

[PHP] what does this mean?

2004-03-10 Thread Harry Wiens
$this-styles['shadow'] = (boolean)$bool; what does (boolean)$bool mean? mfg. harry wiens -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] what does this mean?

2004-03-10 Thread Raditha Dissanayake
The () operator means 'cast into' so (boolean)$bool means cast this into a booolean. Harry Wiens wrote: $this-styles['shadow'] = (boolean)$bool; what does (boolean)$bool mean? mfg. harry wiens -- Raditha Dissanayake.

Re: [PHP] what does this mean?

2004-03-10 Thread Richard Davey
Hello Harry, Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 12:55:44 PM, you wrote: $this-styles['shadow'] = (boolean)$bool; HW what does (boolean)$bool mean? It's casting the value ($bool) to a boolean (i.e. TRUE or FALSE). -- Best regards, Richard Davey http://www.phpcommunity.org/wiki/296.html -- PHP

Re: [PHP] what does this mean?

2004-03-10 Thread Miguel J. Jimnez
That's a boolean casting; used for forcing a variable to become boolean... Hope it helps... Harry Wiens wrote: $this-styles['shadow'] = (boolean)$bool; what does (boolean)$bool mean? mfg. harry wiens -- Miguel J. Jiménez ISOTROL, S.A.

[PHP] what does this mean in plain english?

2002-05-17 Thread Jeff Field
Hi. I'm fairly new to PHP and programming in general. I'm learning mostly by deconstructing what others have written...but even though I have plenty of PHP books and have searched the Internet high and low, I'm stumped by the exact meaning in the following function of what the question mark's

Re: [PHP] what does this mean in plain english?

2002-05-17 Thread Stuart Dallas
On 17 May 2002 at 12:23, Jeff Field wrote: $theValue = ($theValue != ) ? ' . $theValue . ' : NULL; It's a shortened version of the if...else construct. As in... condition ? this_if_true : this_if_false -- Stuart -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] what does this mean in plain english?

2002-05-17 Thread Analysis Solutions
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:23:45PM -0500, Jeff Field wrote: I'm stumped by the exact meaning in the following function of what the question mark's (?) and colon's (:), mean and do? That's the ternary comparison operator. See http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php,

Re: [PHP] what does this mean in plain english?

2002-05-17 Thread Adrian Murphy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 6:23 PM Subject: [PHP] what does this mean in plain english? Hi. I'm fairly new to PHP and programming in general. I'm learning mostly by deconstructing what others have written...but even though I have plenty of PHP books

[PHP] What does PL mean?

2002-03-18 Thread Dan Vande More
What does the pl mean in 4.0.4-pl1 And 4.0.3 pl1? And 4.0.1-pl2 and so on and so forth? Thanks Dan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] What does PL mean?

2002-03-18 Thread mnc
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Dan Vande More wrote: What does the pl mean in 4.0.4-pl1 And 4.0.3 pl1? And 4.0.1-pl2 and so on and so forth? Patch level. Like a minor version. miguel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

RE: [PHP] What does PL mean?

2002-03-18 Thread Dan Vande More
Thanks miguel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 5:14 PM To: Dan Vande More Cc: PHP-GENERAL Subject: Re: [PHP] What does PL mean? On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Dan Vande More wrote: What does the pl mean in 4.0.4-pl1 And 4.0.3

[PHP] What does var mean ?

2001-11-22 Thread Girish Nath
Hi I've been looking at some classes an have come across this notation for example : function remove($productid) { /* this function will remove a given product from the cart */ if (isset($productid)) { unset($this-items[$productid]); } } What does the (ampersand) before the

Re: [PHP] What does var mean ?

2001-11-22 Thread Girish Nath
Thanks, you guys rock! :) Girish - Original Message - From: Roberto Ramírez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Girish Nath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 4:10 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] What does var mean ? The use of the means that its passed by reference. That its equal

Tr: [PHP] What does var mean ?

2001-11-22 Thread Nayco_IUT Laroche
- Original Message - From: Nayco_IUT Laroche [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Girish Nath [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] What does var mean ? This is a reference to the variable, that means that it extends the scope of this variable

Re: [PHP] What does var mean ?

2001-11-22 Thread J Smith
Bas Jobsen wrote: What does the (ampersand) before the variable name mean ? a pointer to the address (mem) of the variable PHP doesn't have pointers and memory can't be directly accessed this way like you can in C, or C++ or whatever. The ampersand is for passing values via reference

Re: [PHP] What does var mean ?

2001-11-22 Thread Nayco_IUT Laroche
Ouupppss!! You're right !!! - Original Message - From: J Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 6:43 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] What does var mean ? Bas Jobsen wrote: What does the (ampersand) before the variable name mean ? a pointer

Re: [PHP] What does var mean ?

2001-11-22 Thread Philip Olson
What does the (ampersand) before the variable name mean ? It's called a reference, check out: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.references.php regards, Philip Olson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

[PHP] what does this mean?

2001-09-24 Thread Jay Paulson
Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array what does that mean? i have in my code this: $errorMsg[error] = ; thanks, jay -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list

RE: [PHP] what does this mean?

2001-09-24 Thread Mark Roedel
-Original Message- From: Jay Paulson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 3:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] what does this mean? Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array what does that mean? i have in my code this: $errorMsg[error

Re: [PHP] what does this mean?

2001-09-24 Thread recognize
As far as I know, you've defined $errorMsg previously as an variable, not as an array. If you'll not use anymore the previously defined $errorMsg just unset the variable using unset($errorMsg) before the attribution. I hope this solves your problem, it solved a lot of similar errors to me!

[PHP] What Does This Mean?

2001-02-13 Thread Ben Ocean
Hi; I'm getting this error: Unsatisfied dependencies for mod-php3-mysql-3.0.8-2: mod-php3 = 3.0.8 What does it mean and what should I do about it (if anything)? TIA, BenO -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [PHP] What Does This Mean?

2001-02-13 Thread Ankur Verma
- Original Message - From: "Ben Ocean" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 3:28 PM Subject: [PHP] What Does This Mean? Hi; I'm getting this error: Unsatisfied dependencies for mod-php3-mysql-3.0.8-2: mod-ph

[PHP] What Does This Mean?

2001-02-12 Thread Ben Ocean
Hi; I just ran into the following error while doing maintenance on my RedHat box: Unsatisfied dependencies for mod-php3-mysql-3.0.8-2: mod-php3 = 3.0.8 What does this mean and how do I fix it? TIA, BenO -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL