Comments on: PHP Variable Names: Curly Brace Madness

By: Suhail

Suhail — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:50:54 +0000

Thanks

${'s'.'t'.'r'} = 'Hello Peter';

Helped a lot…..
after hours of solution searching …
& solving problem

By: Nikola

Nikola — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:55:32 +0000

@Peter – Try NetBeans, it is amazing.

I was trying to clean up some strings tonight and discovered that I can use curly braces within double quotes to concatenate a var with the text immediately following it. It looks much much cleaner than using periods and double quotes. For example, if working a dynamic CSS rule:

background-position: $x_offset”.px.” $y_offset”.px.”

vs.

background-position: {$x_offset}px {$y_offset}px.

…a lot more readable.

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By: Atus

Atus — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:47:05 +0000

Well,

I have a code, what worked in PHP 4.x but didn!t in PHP5.
The code uses the function you mentioned above.

with PHP5 the
print_r(${(‘_GET’)});
line prints the global? $_GET array, while
print_r(${(‘_G’.'ET’)});
gives an “Undefined variable: $_GET” php error.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:19:26 +0000

I have tried to use a whole slew of IDEs in the past and there’s really nothing exceptionally wrong with them. I rather prefer almost just a ‘window’ with the code in (pretty highlighted) and nothing much else.

I remember trying Aptana, Zend, Eclipse, Komodo, PhpED, PHP Designer, PHP Edit–those are the ones I can name off the top of my head–but it was nearly always simply the ‘bulk’ of such applications which put me off. I’m a Zen-like person and they all just made too much noise for my liking!

By: Haris

Haris — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:05:32 +0000

Almost all the IDE’s are heavy. It depends on what your prefer. All IDE’s can be customized very easily.

I use Eclipse PDT http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/index.php.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:56:56 +0000

Absolutely, if you use an IDE then it makes sense to use any available features within the application! Personally, I’m still a little behind the times using a “text editor” (Coda) and don’t have the luxury of built-in debugging, profiling and other lovely features that a full-on IDE would have.

If someone built a light-weight IDE (ie, it worked just like TextMate or Code) with the ability to (optionally!) make use of heavier-weight features, that’d be lovely and, in that case, could the someone let me know about it!

By: Haris

Haris — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:47:21 +0000

I meant to say perspective.

By: Haris

Haris — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:46:18 +0000

“Have a play around yourself, remembering that you can print_r() or var_dump() the superglobal $GLOBALS or even use get_defined_vars() to find out the variable names that have been created.”

Or use your favourite PHP IDE and use the almighty debug prespective.