On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Crash Dummy <gmane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I learned through osmosis that I could use the '@' sign to prevent an
> error with an uncertain variable. For example, if there is no $_GET[]
> value in this line,
>
> $query=$_GET["q"];
>
> I will get an error, but if I prefix the value with '@',
>
> $query=@$_GET["q"];
The @ is an error control operator, used to buffer the output and
store it in a variable - $php_errormsg.
Check it out:
http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.errorcontrol.php
It's better to write clean, secure code, of course.... but
sometimes error control is a good thing, too.
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