Re: control structure question

>is there a more programmatically elegant way of saying... One option would be to just exit; when you get an error if the rest of the script isn't going to execute and send out some closing tags you need anyway. Future versions of PHP might have a try/catch mechanism, but that doesn't help you right now. You may want to look into http://php.net/trigger_error and see if you can't arrange for all your closing tags to be spit out by a function that you can call inside that, and then have the exit; there. What you're doing is "fine" though, if you can live with it. Or, you might be able to get your "error" problems into functions separate from the "do" parts: if (!($error = something1()) && !($error = something2()) && !($error = something3())){ # Okay to proceed with all 3 steps. } else{ echo "Error $error<BR>\n"; } The error line can get kinda long there, but you can make it three lines, or just leave it alone -- It's really not that big a deal if you "play nice" and have *ONLY* more of the same stuff in the rest of the (). How often do you need to scroll right to see the same damn thing repeated when trying to debug? > >$isError = ""; > >function main() { > > doStep1(); > > if (!$isError) { > doStep2(); > } > > if (!$isError) { > doStep3(); > } > // etc. etc. >} > >function doStep1() { > if ($something) { > $isError = 1; > } >} > >function doStep2() { > if ($something) { > $isError = 1; > } >} > >_________________________________________________________________ >Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. >http://www.hotmail.com > -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm I'm looking for a PRO QUALITY two-input sound card supported by Linux (any major distro). Need to record live events (mixed already) to stereo CD-quality. Soundcard Recommendations? Software to handle the recording? Don't need fancy mixer stuff. Zero (0) post-production time. Just raw PCM/WAV/AIFF 16+ bit, 44.1KHz, Stereo audio-to-disk.