Re: PEAR & PHP 4.0.0

[Hans Westerbeek <hw@xs4all.nl>] > On 23 Apr 2001, Stig [iso-8859-1] Sæther Bakken wrote: > > > [ed@vitebsk.net (Ed V. Bartosh)] > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm playing with PEAR DB layer under PHP 4.0.0. > > > It works fine, but only one thing isn't working : > > > php 4.0.0 doesn't uderstand a couple of constructions > > > in DB.php : "@$obj = & new $classname;". > > I'd suggest using switch($classname) and then casing every known class > instead of this rather strange statement (when you think of it). If PHP > had required compilation, the compiler wouldn't be able to detect a > possible error in code like this... > > Ah well myabe i'm being academic ;-) The idea is that DB.php should not be modified if someone adds support for a new databsae. I don't know which is more academic. :-) - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@fast.no> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway