constant

[windandwaves]

Hi folk

I do this:

define("a1", "b");
echo a1
$y = 1;
$x = "a".$y
echo contant($x);

for the last line I get an error. How can I fix this?

Cheers

Nicolaas

[Balazs Wellisch]

>

define("a1", "b");
echo a1
$y = 1;
$x = "a".$y
echo contant($x);

for the last line I get an error. How can I fix this?

Just check your spelling and punctuation!

define("a1", "b");
echo a1;
$y = 1;
$x = "a".$y;
echo constant($x);

It works.

Balazs

[joelbyrd]

You're missing a semicolon on the line before the last - this will give
an error on the last line.

[windandwaves]

Balazs Wellisch wrote:

define("a1", "b");
echo a1
$y = 1;
$x = "a".$y
echo contant($x);

for the last line I get an error. How can I fix this?

Just check your spelling and punctuation!

define("a1", "b");
echo a1;
$y = 1;
$x = "a".$y;
echo constant($x);

It works.

Balazs

it was actually just an example. In real life it is not working! It is a
pretty old version of PHP, could that be it? It does recognise constant as
a function though. It was all rather weird.

[Kimmo Laine]

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Balazs Wellisch wrote:

define("a1", "b");
echo a1
$y = 1;
$x = "a".$y
echo contant($x);

for the last line I get an error. How can I fix this?

Just check your spelling and punctuation!

define("a1", "b");
echo a1;
$y = 1;
$x = "a".$y;
echo constant($x);

It works.

Balazs

it was actually just an example. In real life it is not working! It is a
pretty old version of PHP, could that be it? It does recognise constant
as a function though. It was all rather weird.

Constant() function is available since php 4.0.4
http://fi.php.net/manual/en/function.constant.php

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[Chung Leong]

It could be a bug. Try defining the constant as case-insensitive and
see what happens. Got a dump on get_defined_constants() too.