On Thursday, October 04, 2012 06:06:50 PM Jim Giner wrote:
> On 10/3/2012 8:48 PM, David McGlone wrote:
> > Hi everyone, I have been playing around with some code the list helped me
> > with a while back and I'm not grasping the concept between return and
> > echo and the PHP manual doesn't answer this, unless I'm missing
> > something. There is an example at the very bottom of PHP's return manual,
> > but it's confusing.
> >
> > So now I'm left wondering why return will only give me the first result in
> > an array, but echo will give me all the results of the array. Using
> > stuart's example he had sent me a while back I've messed around with it
> > and modified it to better understand it:
> >
> > function filename($prefix)
> > {
> >
> > $matches = glob('images/property_pics/'.$prefix.'*');
> > foreach($matches as $filename){
> > return $filename;
> >
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> > echo completeImageFilename($row['MLS_No']);
> >
> > With the above code I only get the first image of each picture name, but
> > when I change return to echo, it groups and displays all the pics that
> > have the same picture name.
> >
> >
> > --
> > David M.
>
> I've read thru 9 responses to the OP and not one of you mentioned that
> the code presented is problematic in itself. Very forgiving, but
> perhaps someone should have suggested that he post "actual code" when
> looking for help in the future, and not some typing that is supposed to
> represent the problem.
>
> In this case, I"m looking for the function he called
> "completeImageFilename"
>
> :):)
Uh Oh, we're in trouble ;-)
Sorry about that Jim, I accidently typed the wrong function name. Here's the
corrected code. Everybody's answer was spot on and I learned a great deal
about return and echo. :-)
function completeImageFilename($prefix)
{
$matches = glob('images/property_pics/'.$prefix.'*');
foreach($matches as $filename){
return $filename;
}
}
echo completeImageFilename($row['MLS_No']);
--
David M.
