Re: Is this a missing feature?

I should check my version then... =O) lux Christian Reiniger wrote:

On Monday 05 February 2001 00:51, Lux wrote:

But the feature is useless :)

    function a ($hash, $text = "") {

       $attr_text = "";

       while (list ($k, $v) = each ($hash)) {

          $attr_text .= " $k=\"$v\"";

       }

       return "<a$attr_text>$text</a>";

    }

    // what also doesn't work

    // echo a (array("href" => "http://www.google.com/", "target" =>

"_blank"), "Visit Google!");

Works fine for me, sorry (php 4.0.4)

    // another example

    echo a ($attrs = array ("href" => "http://www.google.com/"),

         img ($attrs = array (

             "src" =>

"http://www.google.com/images/title_homepage4.gif", "alt" => "Visit

Google!",

             "border" => "0")

         )

    );

works, rewritten to echo a (array ("href" => "http://www.google.com/"), img (array (

		    "src" => "http://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'])

    );

    */

So it basically boils down to "array (a => b)" versus "[a => b]" And I personally feel the array () notation is at least as nice as the [] one. Well, it's a matter of taste. But it certainly isn't harder to read, not detrimental on cleanness and elegance of the code.

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