Vishal Patel schreef:
i dont know why the hell im on it so please whoever did this, i wish
they would stop fucking about with my account. please can you unsuscribe
me to all such mailing lists as at the moment im recieving about 10 new
emails a minute about all this stuff which im sure you can understand is
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On Jan 22, 2008 11:33 PM, Jochem Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Vishal Patel schreef:
> who the fuck are you and why the fuck are you emailing me
I'm fucking me actually. and I'm fucking mailing a fucking mailing
list which
apparently your fucking subscribed to. So now your fucking up to speed.
Any other fucking questions?
>
> On Jan 22, 2008 11:15 PM, Jochem Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>> wrote:
>
> TG schreef:
> > I have a semi-good understanding of classes even if I don't
> totally 'grok'
> > the benefits for the projects I've worked on so far.
> >
> > One thing that keeps smacking me in the face, though, is
reverse
> engineering
> > in order to make proper changes to projects created by others
> using classes.
> >
> > In particular, I've been doing a lot of Joomla work and I
end up
> doing a
> > global "find in files" trying to trace things back to see
where
> they're
> > assigned, etc.
> >
> > In particular 2, "$this". I know it's a keyword meaing "the
> active object"..
> > I'm cool with that, but sometimes I need to make changes
to how
> things are
> > handled, or what data is included. I can do a print_r and
see
> what type of
> > object it is, look up the class definition, etc, but it still
> seems like a
> > pretty cumbersome way of doing things.
>
> debug_print_backtrace() is your friend. that said get an
editor that
> supports
> debugging and install the required debugging extension on the
server
> (which
> will probably be your local machine) this will allow you to
initiate
> a debug session
> that allows you to step through the code line by line.
>
> I use Zend (debugger & IDE) for this, there are other options but
> I'm lazy and I've
> never had the patience to setup PHPEclipse+Xdebug (or
something similar)
>
> >
> > Anyone have any tips for debugging/reverse
> engineering/noodling-out classes
> > on big projects created by someone else?
> >
> > I figure things out eventually, I just want to speed up the
> process and do it
> > 'smarter' if possible.
>
> debugging is a bit of a black art. the more you do it the handier
> and more comfortable
> you get at doing it. it's a bit like sex but with out the
reward ;-)
>
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -TG
> >
>
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