note 87127 added to language.constants

As a follow-up to Sinured's 19-Jul-2007 09:27 note : I have also noticed PHP (my version i.e. 5.2.0) allows more characters than specified in constant's names. The slash character ("/") seems to be allowed, notably. I have used that "feature" to produce uniquely named constants in my different files : <? php //This line is copied-pasted in all files, needs not be adpated define('PATH_FILE_THIS'.__FILE__ ,realpath(dirname(__FILE__))); //Use constant : include constant('FPL__PATH_FILE_THIS'.__FILE__).'../etc.'; ?> Had "/" not been a admissible character in a constant's name, hash functions would probably have to have been considered. ---- Server IP: 89.31.146.176 Probable Submitter: 194.153.88.6 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.constants.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/87127 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87127/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87127/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87127/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87127/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87127/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87127/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87127 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/87127 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php