Re: Scripting practices

I use precisely what you suggest. If you later find out you'd like to wrap a few lines inside a loop, this avoids a potential bug when a variable is not reset to the initial value for each iteration. On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 13:55, Gabe wrote: > When scripting in a language (such as PHP) that doesn't require you to > determine the variable type before you use it, is it still considered > good technique to initialize it to the type you're going to use it as? > Or is it considered ok to just use it? > > e.g. > > $strText = ""; //initialize > $strText = "now i'll give it a useful value"; > > Or is it just better to skip the first line? Just curious, thanks! > > Gabe