| Re: Simple expression parser for PHP. [message #179763 is a reply to message #179761] |
Mon, 03 December 2012 22:09   |
Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Daniel Pitts wrote:
> On 12/3/12 11:59 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Daniel Pitts wrote:
>>> I've given the specific requirements. ;-)
>>
>> ISTM you want a person writing or finding that software for you without
>> any real effort on your part. If so, you are wrong here; there are smart
>> but starving PHP developers out there who you should *pay* for that
>> instead. The smiley does not change anything.
>
> I am, of course, trying to do this with the least amount of effort on my
> part possible. A lazy engineer is an efficient engineer ;-). This is
> part of a rather large project for the rather large company I work for,
> so we are already paying PHP developers. I'm not asking for anyone to
> create something for free, only trying to find out what is already out
> there. An hour of googling didn't really turn up much, so I thought I'd
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> turn to the community.
ACK, that is different, of course. You should say so, and tell the keywords
you have searched with, from the start next time.
>> For example, accessing properties instead of calling methods is
>> facilitated with the __get() and __set() magic methods. [2] PHP 5.4 even
>> allows accessing the items of array return values directly, which allows
>> for “$root->foo()["bar"]” or “$root->foo()[0]”. [3] (For PHP 5.3 there
>> can be a fallback, line “$root->foo()->items(0)”).
>
> Sure it can access a single value, but can you do math in that as well?
Like what?
> String concatenation?
String concatenation is a built-in. But if you must, you can do it step by
step.
> For example, I may have an expression such as: $myObject['someValue'] * 3
I fail to see the use-case.
> In any case, thanks for all the links, I'll look through the ones I
> don't know anything about for inspiration.
You're welcome.
Please trim your quotes and add an empty line before each of your blocks of
new text next time.
PointedEars
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