Re: ways of making access and visib compat with 4 and 5

[Erwin Kerk <erwin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

tony yau wrote:
> hi all,
>
> I'm trying to make my classes compat with php4 and php5 is there a way of
> doing something like this:
>
> if( version== 4)
>     define( "VISIBILITY", "" );
> else if (version==5)
>     define( "VISIBILITY", "protected" );
>
> class Flex
> {
>      VISIBILITY function CompatFunc();
> }


No, seems to me this is not possible. A trick i'm using is this:

	Class Foo {
		 /* protected */ function Bar() {}
	}


While I'm running PHP4, the class is as above. As soon as I'm switching 
to PHP5, I do a find and replace and remove the comments....



Erwin


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