Re: define() an array?
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:27:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: define() an array? | ||
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On Fri, April 20, 2007 4:46 am, lists@dwsasia.com wrote:
> I thought I could define() and array. However, when I do this:
Nope. :-(
Has to be string or int or boolean or float or other "scalar" type.
> define("THECONSTANT", array(1,2,3));
> print_r(THECONSTANT);
>
> it prints THECONSTANT and not the array :(
>
> according to the manual:
>
> bool define ( string $name, mixed $value [, bool $case_insensitive] )
>
> And isn't "mixed" of any type?
No.
"mixed" just means it's 2 or more types.
There could be all kinda of reasons/cases where "mixed" means only
scalars, or only compound types or, really, any 2 types you'd care to
choose.
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