Posted by Vince Morgan on 04/13/07 23:48

"Rami Elomaa" <rami.elomaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Vince Morgan kirjoitti:
> > "strawberry" <zac.carey@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:1176450464.524325.95990@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> >> On Apr 13, 1:51 am, "strawberry" <zac.ca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I'm trying to extend a class (written by others) and was wondering if
> >>> there's a standard a way of passing a $_GET request to a class. Here's
> >>> what I have (see below). If I hardcode $where, something like
> >>>
> >>> $where = " WHERE `firstname` = 'John' "
> >>>
> >>> and then pass it as an argument into the scope of a 'select' function
> >>> then it works fine, but otherwise the query just appears to hang.
> >>>
> >>> I'm deliberately not including the class or class extender at this
> >>> stage, but I'll add them to this thread later if required.
> >>>
> >>> foreach ($_GET as $condition_key => $condition_value) {
> >>> $condition[] =" $condition_key = '$condition_value' ";
> >>> }
> >>> if(is_null($condition)){
> >>> $where = " WHERE 1 ";
> >>> }else{
> >>> $conditionString = implode('AND', $condition);
> >>> $where = " WHERE $conditionString ";
> >
> > The line above is looking for a value from a field named
$conditionString.
>
> No, it doesn't. Variables inside a double quoted string are parsed. It's
> perfectly valid code. The example you gave would also work, but it's
> totally unnecessary.
>
> Just try this and you'll learn something fun:
>
> <?php
>
> $cat = 'dog';
>
> echo "I have an animal in my hand and the animal is a $cat. <br />";
> echo 'I have an animal in my hand and the animal is a $cat. <br />';
>
Well, errr, I'm still learning php. Will be for some time I see ;)
I did know that double quotes were parsed, but didn't know that the engine
would recognise "$conditionString" as a var.
Fortunately I know how to make scrambled eggs correctly, I think, so I'll
just go scrape some of my face and have breakfast.
Thanks,
Vince

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