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Re: Function Problem [message #182560 is a reply to message #182556]

Thu, 15 August 2013 22:17

bill
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On 2013-08-14 1:10 AM, J.O. Aho wrote:
> On 13/08/13 20:29, Twayne wrote:
>> Hi All,
>
> As others already has pointed out, it's not the functions fault.

Wow, KUDOS for an informative post! I DO seem to recall coming across an
8859/Unicode mixup; I didn't think anything of it at the time; I see now
that might gave been a big mistake!
>
>
....

>
> Without seeing the whole code it's difficult to tell what's wrong, there
> is patebin.com which could be a good place to post the code and just
> post the link here.
>

Agreed. And:
It seems you have provided some excellent "for the future" fodder here,
and I'll look into all of them. THANKS, because they are all sites I'm
as yet not familiar with.

>
> Some advice which can help you in the future:
>
> 1. use the phplint feature, it will in this case give you the same
> error, but you don't have to use the browser.

That's really appealing!
>
> php -l script_name.php
>
> 2. Use a version control system like git, this will give you the good
> opportunity to see what changed in the code and it's easier to see what
> is wrong. See http://githowto.com
>
> From own experience, I have worked at companies where they do not have
> version control at all, which makes it impossible to revert to a working
> version. I have worked at companies where they have a system where you
> rename files with a number in the end, which makes it difficult to know
> which combination of those changed files will be the correct one for the
> previous working version of the project. IMHO it's just stupid to not
> use tools which makes things a lot easier to keep track of and gives you
> a lot of other features which are useful while developing a site.

Exactly: my own "archive" purposes to date are my remembering to create
the backups.
It ight be stupid to not use such tools, but first we have to figure out
what exists and what's not just crap or so old it's no longer useful.
Maybe I can tame your version of "stupid"; we'll see.

>
> 3. Separate HTML and PHP code as much as possible, have your functions
> in include scripts, you have then include in the top of the "HTML" page,
> this makes it easier to get the right highlight for the PHP and HTML (in
> mixed PHP/HTML files the highlighting may not be correct) and having
> include scripts, then you don't duplicate functions.

I haven't done much including but was just considering that specific
possibility. Thanks for confirming, even if it's a no-brainer :).

>
> 4. Check for input that has been written in wrong charset, for example
> some ISO-8859 characters in an UTF-8 encoded page can make PHP to get
> acting strangely and you can't see them.

Interesting; as I said earlier, I do recall such an event being
discovered and I thought I'd taken care of it; maybe not.

>
>
>> Realizing PHP's often misleading line numbers, I went through each and
>> every use of the function call on the entire page.
>
> Line number tends to be after the error.

Yeah, I've pretty much learned that and only use given line numbers as
ballpark indicators; it seems the error, warning, notice, whatever give
more accurate information.

If you happened to notice I've also published a RESOLVED to the thread,
indicating it seemed like more a hiden character somewhere; perhaps you
came to a closer estimate.

I sincerely thank you for your post!

Twayne`

>
> Not the only language having it like that.

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		Function Problem By: bill on Tue, 13 August 2013 18:29
		Re: Function Problem By: Paul Herber on Tue, 13 August 2013 20:57
		Re: Function Problem By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 13 August 2013 21:26
		Re: Function Problem By: bill on Tue, 13 August 2013 23:29
		Re: Function Problem By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 14 August 2013 09:24
		Re: Function Problem By: Norman Peelman on Tue, 13 August 2013 23:25
		Re: Function Problem By: bill on Tue, 13 August 2013 23:39
		Re: Function Problem By: David Robley on Tue, 13 August 2013 23:34
		Re: Function Problem By: bill on Wed, 14 August 2013 00:45
		PS Re: Function Problem By: bill on Wed, 14 August 2013 00:51
		Re: Function Problem By: Richard Yates on Tue, 13 August 2013 23:48
		Re: Function Problem By: bill on Wed, 14 August 2013 01:00
		Re: Function Problem By: J.O. Aho on Wed, 14 August 2013 05:10
		Re: Function Problem By: bill on Thu, 15 August 2013 22:17
		Re: Function Problem RESOLVED By: bill on Thu, 15 August 2013 21:28
		Re: Function Problem RESOLVED By: Tim Streater on Thu, 15 August 2013 22:15
		Re: Function Problem RESOLVED By: bill on Thu, 15 August 2013 22:59
		Re: Function Problem RESOLVED By: Tim Streater on Fri, 16 August 2013 07:50
		Re: Function Problem RESOLVED By: bill on Sat, 17 August 2013 17:41
		Re: Function Problem RESOLVED By: Norman Peelman on Fri, 16 August 2013 10:43
		Re: Function Problem RESOLVED By: bill on Sat, 17 August 2013 17:44

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