Re: PHP Notice Errors

On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 16:14, Mike Gifford wrote:
> Howdy Joe,
> 
> On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 10:10, Joe Stewart wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:34:42PM -0400, Mike Gifford wrote:
> > > Index: functions.inc
> > > ===================================================================
> > > RCS file: /cvsroot/back-end/back-end0.5.x/class/functions.inc,v
> > > retrieving revision 1.53
> > > diff -r1.53 functions.inc
> > > 617c617
> > > <       $templ->set_var('XSITEOBJECT', $metaobject['object']);
> > > ---
> > > >       $templ->set_var('XSITEOBJECT', @$metaobject['object']);
> > > 811c811,812
> > 
> > I thought this one was fixed by testing if metaobject is an array.
> 
> Evan noticed it, so I'm assuming that it poped up somewhere as a warning
> or notice.  I've cc'd him..  Perhaps the object isn't defined on one of
> our pages (in which case it's our problem & not yours).
> 
> > > Index: lib.resources.php
> > > ===================================================================
> > > RCS file: /cvsroot/back-end/back-end0.5.x/class/lib.resources.php,v
> > > retrieving revision 1.4
> > > diff -r1.4 lib.resources.php
> > > 444c444
> > > <    $ans = $GLOBALS['_PSL']['resources'][$urn] ? true : false;
> > > ---
> > > >    $ans = @$GLOBALS['_PSL']['resources'][$urn] ? true : false;
> >
> > This is one of those screwy php things.  Anybody got a better way to get
> > rid of the warning?
> 
> Rather than just squish them?  

An idea which I think has been tossed around but rejected is to wrap
$_PSL lookups is a pslConfig() function.  pslConfig("resources.$urn") or
whatever could parse the string, check for existence of the keys and
levels of the multi-dimensional array, and return FALSE if it there's no
value without a warning (or maybe just a PSL-level warning that would go
away with $_PSL['debug'] off).  

Pros:

1.  No more global'ing $_PSL
2.  Can munge keys to map one level of $_PSL to another virtually
3.  More control of errors/warnings (as above)

Cons:

1.  Adds spatial complexity
2.  Probably adds time, too.  Joe says, "Remember: PHP is a scripted
interpreted language." :-P

--Matt
-- 
Matthew Leingang
Harvard University Department of Mathematics
leingang-c2Vpf+SSmYbWs/[email protected]



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