Re: Re: ramble was [PHP] Not sure of my error

On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 19:33:00 -0800, Joe Stump (joe@earth.care2.com) wrote: >> This is silly. Even if it works the way you want it to, it's bad >> style. If I joined your project late and had to look at it I would >> not understand what you're trying to do. > >I'm telling you I've seen isset() fail - especially in PHP3. This is >a habit >I started a while ago and stuck with it because it's fail safe - you >can preach >isset() all you want, but the fact remains we (Jer and I both) use >it on a very >large PHP site (1 million page views and 1.4 million members) and we >haven't >seen it fail yet. Well, from your last post on this subject I would suggest the problem was that you were confused as to what isset() is supposed to return. Or possibly you called it on a variable that was out of scope (from a function or class) It's possible that there was an old release with a buggy isset(), but if you were to avoid all functions that were buggy at one point or another you wouldn't get much work done - it's much better to just make sure you're running a stable release. >This is how we would explain it to you when you joined our team :O) >On a site >that large we can't risk something failing. Having a large site is all the more reason to do it right :) - Mark