Re: constants inside of a string

This reminded me of an issue I've kind of been contemplating for a couple of weeks now... I got sick of having to connect, query, check for errors, etc. every time I wanted to query a mysql database, so I wrote a function to do all of it for me... something like: function query_db($queryString, $file, $line) { // do db stuff // if error, die using $file and $line (actually using constants __FILE__ and __LINE__ only tell me that it died in this function) // return results of query } Now, to call the function I've been using: $result = query_db("SELECT * FROM myTable", __FILE__, __LINE__); It'd be nice to be able to get __FILE__ and __LINE__ where the function was called without passing them as parameters. Even if I could just define a macro _HERE_ to expand into __FILE__, __LINE__ it would save me some time... I know it sounds lazy, but if there was a way so I could just call $result = query_db("SELECT * FROM myTable"); it'd be so much nicer... PS - I don't want to get into db abstraction and all that... I just wonder if what I'm talking about is easy/possible. Thanks for input - --Toby ----- Original Message ----- From: "Moritz Petersen" <lists@jface.de> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 3:18 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] constants inside of a string <snip>