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

From:	Jochem Maas	Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:26:58 +0000
Subject:	Re: ways of making access and visib compat with 4 and 5
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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();
}

this will never work. the if/else block is run _after_ the code is compiled. the line 'VISIBILITY function CompatFunc();' will always fail because php won't recognise the token 'VISIBILITY'. not that putting a constant where you do (even if it were defined) would work anyway. btw: you could/should have asked this question on php-generals (there's no reference to DB usage/problems in your question)