[Snippet] NewsListing 6.3.3

Are we going to have a training session with Jason about using advanced class and function?

Honestly, PHP has the weirdest usabilty of class in all other programming languages that I use. But that might be one of the biggest advantage of scripting language, it’s a lot easier to use. One more thing though, some time the use of strong typing in PHP is really needed, considering that I saw a lot of PHP script running around without the use of strong typing, which sometime it’s hard for me to grasp the whole concept of the code. Take an example one variable $temp that is use for string, integer, float, and etc. Can you imagine when you read the code and you start wondering what’s the type of the current content for this $temp variable? But that’s also one of the benefit that I can see form PHP, which lead to the flexibility in building a small usefull code, if it is use correctly.

Dude... I’m way over my head now. I guess I post this on the wrong topic It’s just a thought that come across my mind when reading advanced php scripting post in this topic.

Keep it up mark... Glad to have this snippet with me all the time...

Hmmm? What’s this all about?

-sD-

Hmmmmm, that was the fix Jason reccomended for a problem I was having with a function that modified an existing array. What version of php are you running?

I am testing it under Mac OS X 10.4.3 running Apache 1.3.33, MySQL 4.0.25, and PHP 5.0.4 as a local testing server

Info I just found looking up the error:

At some stage in PHP development, PHP was changed so that instead of forcing arguments to be passed by reference with ’&’ the requirement to pass by reference was placed in the function prototype and forcing pass by reference with ’&’ was depracated. At this point the php.ini option "allow_call_time_pass_reference" was added. By default, allow_call_time_pass_reference is set to On but if you turn it off (or are using a PHP where allow_call_time_pass_reference is removed) you may get this warning.

Quote from: ScottyDelicious at Jan 08, 2006, 09:47 PM

I am testing it under Mac OS X 10.4.3 running Apache 1.3.33, MySQL 4.0.25, and PHP 5.0.4 as a local testing server

Ok... I tried it out on my hosted server (with Site5.com) on a linux machine, and it works fine. Must be stupid Mac OS X!!!

NewsListing Version 6.1.1

Bugfix Release

I had a misplaced & that was causing problems.

NewsListing Version 6.1.2

Bugfix Release

Another minor bug with some versions of php.

Just to check as its the first time I have installed a snippet

Basically I replace the contents of my current NewsListing snippet with this file "snippet.newslisting.6.1.txt"

Then copy the supplied functions.php into assets/snippets/newslisting/functions.php

And everything should be fine?

P.S I am assuming those files on the first topic of this forum item contain the latets downloads

That’s exactly right, edge.

What I tend to do though is create a new snippet called "NewsListing61" and use that in place of the original. That way you can always go back if anything goes wrong.