Re: Form Validation Issues

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 10:55 -0500, Greg Donald wrote: > On 5/23/07, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote: > > > You should really look into learning in_array() for stuff like this. > > > > Wouldn't that slow things down and increase the memory footprint? ;) > > It'd be interesting to see a benchmark. You're good at those... but I'll pull off the top of my head that the array overhead ought to require more memory due to the need for indexes (maybe) but at least for internal tree structure. The speed ought to slow down since the array will need to be created and built. Then using in_array() I'm guessing is a linear search since values aren't sorted (at least I can't image the values being sorted). You could probably overcome the speed issue using an array with the values as indexes instead of the values and using isset() to check for membership of the value :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'