Doc #42285 [Opn->Asn]: var statement

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=42285&edit=1 ID: 42285 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported by: x12code at yahoo dot com Summary: var statement -Status: Open +Status: Assigned Type: Documentation Problem Package: Documentation problem Operating System: XP SP2 PHP Version: Irrelevant -Assigned To: +Assigned To: philip Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-03-29 22:43:59] philip@php.net Note: 'var' is a synonym for 'public' in OOP. Because 'var' is not deprecated (nor an E_STRICT error as 5.1.3), it could be treated with a little more respect. The OOP4 documentation refers to 'var' although doesn't really speak of it in specific terms. That's okay though, PHP 4 is dead and not worth updating. The general OOP documentation however has a note about 'var' no longer emitting an E_STRICT error, but since it's not deprecated we may as well mention it outside of the note too. How far should we go? Probably not far, but farther than we do today. Also, php.net/var should go somewhere useful. Thanks to Yawk for opening discussion on this bug report. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-03-29 11:37:13] rjmunro at arjam dot net The documentation for the var statment is still impossible to find. I have no idea what it means - the only relevant hit from searching php.net for "var statement" is this bug report. If I go to http://php.net/var, it takes me to http://php.net/manual/en/book.var.php, which is titled "Variable handling" and should presumably contain the information, but doesn't contain the string "var " in it's entire contents. So far I can't find what var means. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-08-16 08:42:17] vrana@php.net This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-08-13 14:38:15] x12code at yahoo dot com Description: ------------ The following page mentions "classes": http://us.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.php I am learning PHP. I went through an online tutorial and am now reading through the manual as I am lead page by page. On this page I came across new syntax not seen before which is the "var statement". This appears different than other variable declaration, which is just to type the variable name on a line with no assignment, or just use the variable for the first time. Wanting to be sure what this means I read previous manual pages on php.net again, I searched php.net, and I did an internet wide google search. I feel I have come to understand the "var statement", but doing so was difficult. It was not expressly stated in the manual. Searching is difficult because "var" is quite ambiguous to "variable" for both PHP and Javascript, and php.net uses "$var" for some code examples. Thanks Reproduce code: --------------- n/a Expected result: ---------------- n/a Actual result: -------------- n/a ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=42285&edit=1