Re: Is this a missing feature?
| From: | Josh G | Date: | Mon, 05 Feb 2001 00:01:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Is this a missing feature? | ||
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What's this ruby? Care to send the list a URL so we can go have a
look for ourselves?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lux" <me@simian.ca>
To: <creinig@mayn.de>
Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Is this a missing feature?
> > But the feature is useless :)
>
> Here, I removed the reference, so we can stop fussing over it (it wasn't
the
> question to begin with), and here's an example of a potential use for this
> (a stupid example, but still...). I'm not weighing out the benefits of
> references, I'm striving to achieve the cleanest and most elegant code I
> can, because the larger the project, the more code you have to read, and
> the uglier it can get.
>
> That's where a language like Ruby excels. There's less syntactical crap,
> it's very easy to read, and it's caused me to consider switching to eRuby
> (like mod_perl, allows <% ruby this, ruby that %> in your html) because it
> is structurally easier and more geared towards larger projects.
>
> (that last statement will probably get me murdered on a PHP list)
>
> But honestly, the only problem is finding a host running eRuby that I
don't
> have to maintain myself. I'm lazy, after all.
>
> later,
>
> lux
>
> <?php
>
> function a ($hash, $text = "") {
> $attr_text = "";
> while (list ($k, $v) = each ($hash)) {
> $attr_text .= " $k=\"$v\"";
> }
> return "<a$attr_text>$text</a>";
> }
>
> function img ($hash) {
> $attr_text = "";
> while (list ($k, $v) = each ($hash)) {
> $attr_text .= " $k=\"$v\"";
> }
> return "<img$attr_text />";
> }
>
> // works this way
>
> $attrs = array (
> "href" =>
> "http://www.google.com/",
> "target" => "_blank"
> );
> echo a ($attrs, "Visit Google!");
>
> echo "\n\n";
>
> // also this way (thanx teodor!)
>
> echo a ($attrs = array (
> "href" =>
> "http://www.google.com/",
> "target" => "_blank"
> ), "Visit Google!");
>
> // ideally, i'd like to say this though...
> // echo a (["href" =>
> "http://www.google.com/", "target" =>
> "_blank"], "Visit Google!");
>
> // what also doesn't work
> // echo a (array("href" =>
> "http://www.google.com/", "target" =>
> "_blank"), "Visit Google!");
>
> echo "\n\n";
>
> // another example
>
> echo a ($attrs = array ("href" =>
> "http://www.google.com/"),
> img ($attrs = array (
> "src" => "
Ý=
> “"[ 0•tM¶ÚÅhttp://www.google.com/images/title_homepage4.gif",
> "alt" => "Visit Google!",
> "border" => "0")
> )
> );
>
> /* now ideally, this could be written much more cleanly, perhaps...
>
> echo a(['href' => [http://www.google.com/'],
> img(['src' =>
> 'http://www.google.com/images/title_homepage4.gif',
> 'alt' => 'Visit
> Google!', 'border' => '0'])
> );
>
> */
>
> ?>
>
> --
>
> John Luxford
> Simian Systems
>
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> e: lux@simian.ca
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>
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