Re: [PHP-DEV] information request

2002-07-23 Thread M Bruggeman
In addition to database purposes it is used when you want to EVAL a string that may have embeded quotes. If they are not escaped the parser will barf (due to the "magic" nature of quote? or because they are a delimitor? This is one of the questions I am interrested in). If it was simpl

Re: [PHP-DEV] information request

2002-07-18 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
> Specifically I am interrested in variable interpolation and all the side > effects of double quotes (I consider addslashes/stripslashes to be a > kind of "side effect" as they are only necessary because of the "magic" > of double quotes - as I understand it now. But then that is why I am >

[PHP-DEV] information request

2002-07-18 Thread M Bruggeman
Hello, I have been using php for some time now and am interrested in exploring how php handles strings. There are some things about the way php does things I find "ugly" but I would like to know more before I go making proposals. I have read the docs and searched the php-dev l

[PHP-DEV] Information request.

2002-05-15 Thread Robert Cummings
I apologize for double posting this, until today I didn't realize replying-to and clearing the subject line caused me to thread into the previous message, in other words I didn't know that a reference was sent via the headers. -- Is

[PHP-DEV] Information request.

2002-05-15 Thread Robert Cummings
Is there someplace other than: http://www.php.net/manual/en/zend.php Where I can get more advanced information about how the engine itself work. While I've made some extensions I was recently wondering if perhaps I've done some things wrong (no doubt I have). For instance... Let's say I do: