I agree... that was just a wild idea! :)
Let's forget about it!
What's a good PHP programming editor you'd recommend on a mac for starters?
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:39 PM, tamouse mailing lists
<tamouse.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Haluk Karamete <halukkaramete@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Again, coming from ASP background, I'm trying to minimize the typing
>> for most needed functionalities..
>>
>> in asp, to set a session var, you go <%session("age")=90%> and to
>> output it, you just go <%=session("age")%>
>>
>> in php, you've got to _SESSION['age']=90. that's a lot of keyboarding,
>> lots of double key strokes and the entire word session has to be
>> uppercase.
>
> if you haven't (yet) disabled caps-lock, this is one thing it's
> typically used for -- successful strings of capital letters.
>
> Anyway, if you use $_SESSION[] a lot, then creating a short 2-char
> function can be helpful. Someone else coming along later to maintain
> your code might be highly mystified about it though.
>
>> of course, if you use an IDE and you get fast at it, this may not be
>> an issue but I wanted to simplify it anyway.
>>
>> so the plan is this
>>
>> <?php
>>
>> _s("age",43) //set the session var age to 43
>> echo _s("age") //outputs the value
>>
>> ?>
>>
>> To achieve this; I wrote this preliminary function;
>>
>> function _s($var,$val = "r4r53d323,9e809023890j832e@14fdsffdd")
>> {
>> if ($val == "r4r53d323,9e809023890j832e@14fdsffdd")
>> {return $_SESSION[$var];}
>> else
>> {$_SESSION[$var] = $val;}
>> }
>
> You should add in a check to make sure the $_SESSION[$var] actually
> exists as an index in your first return statement and return a value
> you can check against for success/failure.
>
>>
>> Now, what's that number you ask!... it's just a value which I figured
>> I would never end up in a real app.
>> It's just a way for me to use default argument of the function so I
>> can call _s function with 1 or 2 arguments.
>>
>> Can this be done a better way? How do you use _s function with 1 or 2
>> arguments so in 1 arg mode, you can use it as a set, and in 2 arg
>> mode, you use it as a way to return val.
>>
>> Is func_get_args route the only way? performance wise which one would better?
>
> This would be the safest way in this case. I'm not 100% how this would
> devolve into byte-code, but my assumption is that there would be a
> very slight performance cost, however, since you are calling a
> function for every access to the $_SESSION array, you've already bit
> the majority of that cost.
>
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> All in all, I would not use this sort of aliasing of a function to an
> array to save typing. Get an IDE if it really is that onerous. I can
> type ses<tab> and it expands to $_SESSION['index'] automatically
> dropping me at the first apostrophe with the whole inner string
> highlighted. Saves *LOTS* of typing.
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