[PHP] Re: Stupid newbie question = Why don't I need a ; after this line?

2004-01-27 Thread Paul
Thanks guys. Duhhh. I was taught to always put ;'s and any dev software that writes it's own code does the same. I also remember adding them because I was getting error's at some point, perhaps PHP3. Is it considered better practice to use them? Otherwise I've been wasting keystrokes. I only

Re: [PHP] Re: Stupid newbie question = Why don't I need a ; after this line?

2004-01-27 Thread -{ Rene Brehmer }-
I always use them ... but it's mainly 'cause if I ever need to expand the code, I won't have to remember to add them ... it's for the same reason I always use the braces '{ ... }' even though the short form would work just as well in many cases ... I tend to expand my code alot with time (as I

[PHP] Re: stupid newbie question

2001-10-05 Thread J Smith
Actually, there is a unix-like fork() function in an extension. exec() will execute another process, but it isn't really a fork(). Look at the pcntl extension and check out pcntl_fork(). I've been working with it for a few days and it works pretty well. It's still marked EXPERIMENTAL, so

[PHP] Re: stupid newbie question

2001-10-04 Thread Richard Lynch
http://php.net/exec You'll need to use in the command to be executed. That command may or may not need to be wrapped up in a shell script to muck with stdin/stderr/stdout so that PHP isn't waiting for those to be freed up... Or something like that. I don't really understand it, I just know