PHP 5.4 WARNING

[mattseh]

Pffft... child's play.

That's the point, simple but powerful.

 

[nickCR]

Wait, this has been deprecated?

Edit: This hasn't been deprecated. What has been deprecated is something like this:

$x=5;
$y=2;

play_game($x, &$y);

function play_game($x, $y) { 
   $x = 9;
   $y = 4;
}

Balance has been restored to the universe now that I don't have 40 hours rewriting all my code.

Deprecated in 5.3 REMOVED in 5.4.

 

[lcver]

The fuck? Don't scare me like that. References haven't been depricated, they just got rid of the retard way of using them. I use references all the time to save memory.

You almost had me switching to C.

 

[spitfire]

There's no real global variables in PHP (other than $GLOBALS array). For example, if I put "$z = 6" at the top of that code snippet, the play_game() function wouldn't be able to see to $z.

You can do this

$z = 6;

function play_game()
{
global $z;

echo $z;

}

and it will work. Not something I like to do but it works.

I prefer constants myself:

define("NUMBER",     1);
echo NUMBER;

The fuck... I've been coding a long time, circa 1995, thank god not in php, cause I don't see that shit working right here. Maybe you left some code out, or this is a troll - I don't know anymore.

It was called "passing by reference". I remember coming across it deep in osCommerce code from around '03 and spending a few hours puzzling it out. In case anyone wants the docs + where it was deprecated / removed:

PHP: Passing by Reference - Manual

 

[eliquid]

^^ yes, but constants can only be used once

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

Wait, this has been deprecated?

Edit: This hasn't been deprecated. What has been deprecated is something like this:

$x=5;
$y=2;

play_game($x, &$y);

function play_game($x, $y) { 
   $x = 9;
   $y = 4;
}

Balance has been restored to the universe now that I don't have 40 hours rewriting all my code.

Phew, you're right. Just upgraded a server I don't really use to PHP v5.4, and that code snippet I posted above works fine.

That's a relief.

 

[crackp0t]

That code I posted? It works fine. I just tested it myself:

$x=5;
$y=2;

echo "X = $x, Y = $y\n";
play_game($x, $y);
echo "X = $x, Y = $y\n";

function play_game($x, &$y) {
   $x = 9;
   $y = 4;
}

Run that, and the output will be:

X = 5, Y = 2
X = 5, Y = 4

Or what PHP version are you using? Apparently, if it's v5.4+, it's not going to work. My devel server is v5.3.9.

Works on php 5.4.6