Re: Re: redoing website after 7 years

On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 09:00 +1100, Chris wrote: > Robert Cummings wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 08:56 -0500, Andrew Ballard wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote: > >>> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 15:17 +1100, Chris wrote: > >>>>> I know many people will grin at me for this solution but may be faster way > >>>>> to overcome this problem to do a find for $ and replace with $_REQUEST. > >>>>> even > >>>>> this will help you if you dealt with $_POST, $_GET, $_COOKIE. > >>>> Please don't. > >>>> > >>>> $connection = mysql_connect(...) > >>>> > >>>> becomes > >>>> > >>>> $_REQUEST[$connection] (or something) > >>> How did you get those braces when you did search and replace? > >>> > >>> ;) > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> Rob. > >> Doesn't your search and replace tool support regular expression > >> matching and replacement? > > > > Well yes, but the instrutions didn't indicate using a regex ;) > > I'd like to see you try it without a regex.. ;) I guess you could do it > but php isn't going to parse it (or everything is going to be set to > $_REQUEST).. The point of my original comment was that you didn't follow the instructions ;) Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP