Re: Help!

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2006/4/28, Barry <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Martin Alterisio schrieb:
> 2006/4/28, Dave Goodchild <buddhamagnet@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> Hi all - I am attempting to solve some maddening behaviour that has me
>> totally stumped and before I take a blade to my throat I thought I
would
>> pick the brains of the group/hive/gang.
>>
>> I am working on a viral marketing application that uses multipart
emails
>> to
>> notify entrants of their progress in the 'game'. I have a demo version
>> which
>> works fine, and the current rebranded version was also fine until the
>> client
>> asked for some changes then POWWWWW!
>>
>> I will try and define the issue as simply as I can. I am passing 11
>> arguments to a function called sendSantaMail (don't ask) and as a
sanity
>> check I have called mail() to let me know the values just before they
are
>> passed in to the function. I get this result:
>
>
> sendSantaMail???? That's just not a *declarative* way of naming a
function.
Do you know what "santa" means? No? so how can you tell it's not
declarative.
Santa could be a coded Mailer and that functions uses that specific
Mailer Deamon called "santa" to send mails.


Yeah you're right, I was thinking the exact same thing a while after I
posted that. Maybe it was a correct name in the context used, but, I still
think "Santa" is a really misleading name for a mailer, and not to mention
that a mass mailer identifying itself as "Santa mailer" in the headers is
asking to be send directly to spam. Anyway, I was wrong.

Then, 11 arguments???? Errr, passing an associative array with the email
> parameters wouldn't have been a cleaner and better option?

He just told he passes 11 arguments, never told how he does that.


Well, if somebody tells you a function has 11 arguments what would you
think?

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