@ before a statement ignores any errors it produces. Equivalent to vb's
"on error resume next" or trap or try {}.
HTH
-jmb
Larry Helms wrote:
>
>
> I've been programming in PHP now for a little over a year... and
> loving it. I didn't really
> understand OO programming that well (and it's still a little
> mystifying to me) until I got a
> hold of some PHP OO code.
>
> That aside... I've recently run into some code with LOTS of '@' in it.
> e.g.
>
> @somefunction();
> OR
> @require_once (INCLUDE_PATH."config.php");
>
> My question is... WHAT does the '@' mean and what affect does it have
> on processing?
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Larr.
>
>
