Re: Only variables can be passed by reference - Preg_match Fatal error
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:24:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Only variables can be passed by reference - Preg_match Fatal error | ||
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Adrian wrote:
> check your preg_match() call...
>
> things like "$pattern" and "$msg" are the spawn of satan btw.
> there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON to put variables in quotation marks
> except that php has to parse the string which is slower than php just
> seeing the variable.
You'd be hard-pressed to measure a difference, I suspect.
It *IS* a bad thing stylsticly.
> and when a functions expects a reference, "$variable" will cause a
> fatal error like it happens in your script.
Ouch.
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