Hello David, nice constructive helpfull work, thanks!
best regardws marcus Monday, August 15, 2005, 8:49:35 PM, you wrote: > As a decreasingly "hardcore" php user, any and/or all items on Rasmus' > wishlist would be welcome. However, to comment on two items.... > The strpos/in_array argument swap is one of my greatest joys in PHP. It > keeps it lively. So I did a quick grep of the manual for "needle/haystack" > type functions, and came up with the following. Perhaps there are other > functions that use different argument names that I missed. There are > really only 3 functions (array_key_exists, array_search and in_array) that > use "needle, haystack" and are out of step with the others that use > "haystack, needle". > ---------------------------------------------- > array_key_exists ( mixed key, array search) > array_search ( mixed needle, array haystack [, bool strict]) > iconv_strpos ( string haystack, string needle [, int offset [, string > charset]]) > iconv_strrpos ( string haystack, string needle [, string charset]) > in_array ( mixed needle, array haystack [, bool strict]) > mb_strpos ( string haystack, string needle [, int offset [, string > encoding]]) > mb_strrpos ( string haystack, string needle [, string encoding]) > mb_substr_count ( string haystack, string needle [, string encoding]) > stripos ( string haystack, string needle [, int offset]) > stristr ( string haystack, string needle) > strpbrk ( string haystack, string char_list) > strpos ( string haystack, string needle [, int offset]) > strrchr ( string haystack, string needle) > strripos ( string haystack, string needle [, int offset]) > strrpos ( string haystack, string needle [, int offset]) > strstr ( string haystack, string needle) > substr_count ( string haystack, string needle) > ---------------------------------------------- > My other great joy in PHP is the function naming (especially the str* > family). Although I can actually remember which are str_* and which are > str* (while I can NEVER remember the argument order of strpos), it would > be nice to make naming consistent. So why are aliases (str_pos, str_tok, > htmlentities_decode, etc.) out of the question? Indeed, I have a colleague > who still uses mysql_numrows, mysql_fieldname and friends (of course, he > also still runs PHP3 :). Best regards, Marcus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
