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That's ok, but then I can't help you more than I tried to.
Just check with what I told you about debug_backtrace(), at least that way
you can trace where the function was called with wrong arguments.

2006/4/29, Dave Goodchild <buddhamagnet@xxxxxxxxx>:

Misleading to who? I own the app and am the only person who will ever use
it. Rather anal.


On 29/04/06, Martin Alterisio < malterisio777@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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