Chris wrote:
> Luke wrote:
>> 2009/4/22 PJ <af.gourmet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> Could somebody explain to me the meaning of @ in $var =
>>> @$_POST['title'] ;
>>> where could I find a cheat sheet for those kinds of symbols or what are
>>> they called?
>>> Sorry for my ignorance, but maybe this will take the fog filter our of
>>> my neurons. :-\
>> I believe placing an @ in front of a statement suppresses any error
>> messages
>> it generates.
>>
>
> It does - in this case if 'title' is not posted as part of the form,
> it would have generated a warning or notice (can't remember which).
>
> A longer path is:
>
> $var = '';
> if (isset($_POST['title'])) {
> $var = $_POST['title'];
> }
>
> The shortcut works but it makes it extremely difficult to find
> problems with your scripts (think of 50 @'s being used in one script..
> eek).
>
Thanks for refreshing my memory... I had run across this but forgot as I
usually do not use it. I turn on all error checking and stumble through
prin_r() and var_dump() ... whatever. :-D
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