Re: Exceptions and Errors

Lukas Smith wrote: > > Our original idea was to handle this with an if statement like so: > > if (version_compare(phpversion(), "5.0.0") == -1) { > > // assign factoried method to this for PHP 4 > > // $this =& <Your_Package_Name>::factory(); // $this =& <Your_Package_Name>::singleton(); eval('$this =& <Your_Package_Name>::singleton();'); > > } else { > > // error handling for PHP5 > > // user has to use the factory()/singleton() method > > } > > I guess to make it clear, what I want is that PHP5 only explodes if it > is actually asked to execute an assignement to $this and not just > because there is one in the constructor. However Derick just messed > around with the relevant code and didnt immediatly see a solution. So what's wrong with using eval to evaluate the non-PHP5 compatible code? Besides the performance penalty, of course. The code in the eval itself will never be parsed or executed in PHP5. Seems to work for me at least... > regards, > Lukas Smith -Brad