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Posted by Adam on 09/04/06 01:19
On Sun, 03 Sep 2006 18:06:50 -0400, Koncept wrote:
>In article <4lvv78F3qicuU1@individual.net>, J.O. Aho <user@example.net>
>wrote:
>
>> kenoli wrote:
>> > I often see syntax used in code snippets that is different than that
>> > indicated in the php manual, at least in the main topic pages.
>>
>> How do you mean differs?
>>
>> like:
>>
>> $str1 = substr('abcdef', 1);
>> $str2 = substr('abcdef', 0, 8);
>>
>> or?
>>
>>
>> > Is there somewhere that I can find alternative syntax documented?
>>
>> The online manual gives you the valid syntaxes, or course they don't give all
>> the examples how you can use functions.
>>
>>
>> > I suspect that in some cases this may be a matter of the author using C
>> > syntax that is slightly different than php syntax.
>>
>> PHP don't understand any other syntax than PHP.
>>
>>
>> //Aho
>
>He probably means:
>
>[quote]
>Alternative syntax for control structures
>
>PHP offers an alternative syntax for some of its control structures;
>namely, if, while, for, foreach, and switch. In each case, the basic
>form of the alternate syntax is to change the opening brace to a colon
>(:) and the closing brace to endif;, endwhile;, endfor;, endforeach;,
>or endswitch;, respectively.
>
><?php if ($a == 5): ?>
>A is equal to 5
><?php endif; ?>
>
>In the above example, the HTML block "A is equal to 5" is nested within
>an if statement written in the alternative syntax. The HTML block would
>be displayed only if $a is equal to 5.
>The alternative syntax applies to else and elseif as well. The
>following is an if structure with elseif and else in the alternative
>format:
>
><?php
>if ($a == 5):
> echo "a equals 5";
> echo "...";
>elseif ($a == 6):
> echo "a equals 6";
> echo "!!!";
>else:
> echo "a is neither 5 nor 6";
>endif;
>?>
>
>[/quote]
He may also mean the use of short quotes (<? over the more common
<?php) which allows for some other variations, I think.
Adam.
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