On Thursday 30 October 2003 01:27 pm, Marek Kilimajer wrote:
> Why? I guess because php is interpreted language and is parsed only
> once, no preprocessor. Workaround is quite easy, use variable:
I thought that too, and tried it before posting to the list (it was at the
bottom of my first email).
Unfortunately when you do that you get and expecting T_STRING error. The same
thing happens if you put the var in quotes.
Why would it not parse the constant the first time? It does everywhere else.
-Jackson
>
> <?php
>
> // settings to be set on install of the app
> $MY_BASE_CLASS="base_class";
> define("MY_BASE_CLASSFILE","base_class.php");
>
> // require the class file
> require_once(MY_BASE_CLASSFILE);
>
> class my_child_class extends $MY_BASE_CLASS {
> // yada yada
> }
> ?>
>
> Jackson Miller wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 October 2003 12:29 pm, Marek Kilimajer wrote:
> >>php is not c, you can't use constants this way.
> >
> > but why? Is there a work around?
> >
> > -Jackson
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