RE: [PHP] Class Constant PHP 5
| From: | Jay Blanchard | Date: | Wed, 07 Dec 2005 18:52:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Class Constant PHP 5 | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Wow, that should fail. But you did have use var_dump() to get it, which may
be slightly counter-intuitive. I just did this....
function realRand($x){
$x = $x * rand(5,10);
return $x;
}
define("RANDOM", realRand(1.2));
var_dump(RANDOM);
and it returns floats. Well, I'll be jiggered.
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From http://us3.php.net/manual/en/language.constants.php
"Only scalar data (boolean, integer, float and string) can be contained in
constants."