On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:03 PM, tamouse mailing lists
<tamouse.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:57 PM, David McGlone <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Absolutely. I also think I learned that return can also work like echo if the
>> code is written correctly.
>
>
> No, no, no. Return does NOT do the same thing as echo, nor vice versa.
> If you do try to make things work this way you are doing things
> incorrectly. If you do try to make things work this way and it
> actually works, you have gotten lucky, but are still doing it
> incorrectly.
Let's try another example, based on your code:
Example 1: using return
=======================
function completeImageFilename($prefix) //correcting function name
{
$matches = glob('images/property_pics/'.$prefix.'*');
foreach($matches as $filename){
return $filename;
}
}
echo "This is the complete image file name:
".completeImageFilename($row['MLS_No']) . PHP_EOL;
You will get one line of output with the text from the echo statement
and the first filename that matches.
Example 2: using echo
=====================
function completeImageFilename($prefix) //correcting function name
{
$matches = glob('images/property_pics/'.$prefix.'*');
foreach($matches as $filename){
echo "This is the file name from inside completeImageFilename: " .
$filename . PHP_EOL;
}
}
echo "This is the complete image file name:
".completeImageFilename($row['MLS_No']) . PHP_EOL;
You will get several lines of output for each filename that matches
with the text from the echo statement inside the function, then one
more line that will contain *just* the text from the final echo
statement:
This is the file name from inside completeImageFilename:
images/property_pics/151136.jpg
This is the file name from inside completeImageFilename:
images/property_pics/151137.jpg
This is the file name from inside completeImageFilename:
images/property_pics/151138.jpg
This is the file name from inside completeImageFilename:
images/property_pics/151139.jpg
This is the complete image file name:
(the file names are bogus and just made up by me to illustrate)
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