Hi,
I have a question about defining long string constants in class
defintions.
For an example, let's say I have some long SQL queries that I'd like
to store in a class. Furthermore, I don't want to instantiate the
class to use them since they're just a group of constants.
I can see a couple ways to acheive this, but they all leave unreadable
code. I can:
1) put the whole string all in one line, ignoring wrapping:
class MyQueries {
var $query1 = "SELECT this FROM that WHERE blah AND blah AND
blah..."
}
2) leave the string open and close it on another line:
class MyQueries {
var $query1 = "SELECT this
FROM that
WHERE blah
AND blah
AND blah
..."
}
3) use heredoc syntax:
class MyQueries {
var $query1=<<<ENDH
SELECT this
FROM that
WHERE blah
AND blah
AND blah
...
ENDH;
}
I don't like any of these. The first and last make the source code
unreadable and the middle one includes all the whitespace and CRLF's
in the string, which I don't want.
Coming from a C background, I'd like to do this:
class MyQueries {
var $query1="SELECT this"
" FROM that"
" WHERE blah"
" AND blah"
" AND blah"
" ...";
}
But PHP doesn't seem to support that syntax (out of curiousity: why
not?), and since it's a class definition I can't use the '.' operator
to concatenate them.
Does anybody have a good solution? I'm afraid I'm just going to have
to give up on the "No instantiation" thing and just define them with
"." operators in a constructor, even though it seems unneccessary.
Thanks,
Andrew 1 1693
"Andrew Palumbo" <to*****@yahoo. com> wrote in message
news:3c******** *************** ***@posting.goo gle.com... Hi,
I have a question about defining long string constants in class defintions.
For an example, let's say I have some long SQL queries that I'd like to store in a class. Furthermore, I don't want to instantiate the class to use them since they're just a group of constants.
<snip> Thanks, Andrew
This is a good use for define(), since you effectively want static
constants. These concatenate fine.
define("X","Thi s is a string".
" that needs to be longer".
" than comfortably fits on a line.");
Can't imagine why you'd want them class-specific, but at least this works.
You could always construct them in the constructor:
class c {
var $v;
function c() {
$v="This is a string".
" that needs to be longer".
" than comfortably fits on a line.";
echo $this->v;
}
}
I hadn't realised you couldn't do this with "var" variables' declaration,
but it makes sense I suppose.
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