On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 11:29:28AM +1200, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > >>>Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: > >>>>You can't access string offsets with square brackets [] in PHP5. You > >>>>need to use curly braces {} instead. > >>> > >>>Not sure where you got that idea. This is not true. > >>> > >>>-Rasmus > >> > >>Actually, it is. See the following URL: > >> > >>http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.substr > > > >Yes, please read that link again. The syntax is deprecated. That > >doesn't mean it doesn't work as you indicated. If we broke this most of > >the scripts written for PHP4 would break. > > > >-Rasmus > > Yes, but he's talking about PHP5. He probably has E_STRICT on, which is > why he's getting that error. > > I was telling him to use the correct syntax, which will cause him to not > get that error. > > Best regards > > -- > Jasper Bryant-Greene > Cabbage Promotions > www: www.cabbage.co.nz > email: jasper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > phone: 021 232 3303 > > public key: Jasper Bryant-Greene <jasper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> keyID 0E6CDFC5 > fingerprint: 2313 5641 F8F6 5606 8844 49C0 1D6B 2924 0E6C DFC5 > You do realize you're arguing with Rasmus, right? -- Jim Kaufman Linux Evangelist public key 0x6D802619, CISSP# 65668 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php