constant

[windandwaves]

Hi folk

I do this:

define("a1", "b");
echo a1
$y = 1;
$x = "a".$y
echo contant($x);

for the last line I get an error. How can I fix this?

Cheers

Nicolaas

[Balazs Wellisch]

Re: constant

>[color=blue]
> define("a1", "b");
> echo a1
> $y = 1;
> $x = "a".$y
> echo contant($x);
>
> for the last line I get an error. How can I fix this?[/color]

Just check your spelling and punctuation!

define("a1", "b");
echo a1;
$y = 1;
$x = "a".$y;
echo constant($x);

It works.

Balazs

[joelbyrd@gmail.com]

Re: constant

You're missing a semicolon on the line before the last - this will give
an error on the last line.

[windandwaves]

Re: constant

Balazs Wellisch wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>> define("a1", "b");
>> echo a1
>> $y = 1;
>> $x = "a".$y
>> echo contant($x);
>>
>> for the last line I get an error. How can I fix this?[/color]
>
> Just check your spelling and punctuation!
>
> define("a1", "b");
> echo a1;
> $y = 1;
> $x = "a".$y;
> echo constant($x);
>
> It works.
>
> Balazs[/color]

it was actually just an example. In real life it is not working! It is a
pretty old version of PHP, could that be it? It does recognise constant as
a function though. It was all rather weird.

[Kimmo Laine]

Re: constant

"windandwav es" <winandwaves@co ldmail.com> kirjoitti
viestissä:1gnAf .18037$vH5.8887 81@news.xtra.co .nz...[color=blue]
> Balazs Wellisch wrote:[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> define("a1", "b");
>>> echo a1
>>> $y = 1;
>>> $x = "a".$y
>>> echo contant($x);
>>>
>>> for the last line I get an error. How can I fix this?[/color]
>>
>> Just check your spelling and punctuation!
>>
>> define("a1", "b");
>> echo a1;
>> $y = 1;
>> $x = "a".$y;
>> echo constant($x);
>>
>> It works.
>>
>> Balazs[/color]
>
> it was actually just an example. In real life it is not working! It is a
> pretty old version of PHP, could that be it? It does recognise constant
> as a function though. It was all rather weird.[/color]

Constant() function is available since php 4.0.4

http://fi.php.net/manual/en/function.constant.php

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[Chung Leong]

Re: constant

It could be a bug. Try defining the constant as case-insensitive and
see what happens. Got a dump on get_defined_con stants() too.