Re: Re: [NEWBIE GUIDE] For the benefit of new members

Richard Lynch wrote:

Oh and by the way, whenever I'm creating the skeleton of a new class I will usually insert the following code snippet into the functions to let me know I have to come back and actually implement it later. if ($class = __CLASS__) { trigger_error(__CLASS__ . '::' . __FUNCTION__ . ' is not finished.', E_USER_WARNING); } else { trigger_error(__FUNCTION__ . ' is not finished.', E_USER_WARNING); }

Why the assignment to $class? Is that supposed to be == or is it just allowing for static class/method calls with no object instantiated?

The assignment was intentional... but the reason is that it's my generic trigger for any function / method. So that this can be used inside of incomplete functions as well as methods. <?php class test2 { static function test3() {

      if (__CLASS__) {
      trigger_error(__CLASS__ . '::' . __FUNCTION__ . ' is not finished.', E_USER_WARNING);
    } else {
      trigger_error(__FUNCTION__ . ' is not finished.', E_USER_WARNING);
    }

} } function test() { if (__CLASS__) {

    trigger_error(__CLASS__ . '::' . __FUNCTION__ . ' is not finished.', E_USER_WARNING);

} else {

    trigger_error(__FUNCTION__ . ' is not finished.', E_USER_WARNING);

} } test(); $t2 = new test2(); $t2->test3(); test2::test3(); ?>

And would not 'if (__CLASS__)' serve just as well?

Good point... no need to assign to the variable; __CLASS__ alone is more efficient. -- Teach a man to fish... NEW? | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html STFA | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&w=2 STFM | http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php STFW | http://www.google.com/search?q=php LAZY | http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=PHP&submitform=Find+search+plugins