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[Phil Powell]

Dan Cech wrote:

> Hmm, that is very similar to the GLOBALS kludge I posted, although it 
> doesn't work on my machine.  Each subsequent call to setErrorArray is 
> overwriting the error array.
>
> Thus far the best I've got is:
>
> class ActionHandler {
>   function &getErrorArray () {
>     return ActionHandler::setErrorArray ();
>   }
>
>   function &setErrorArray ($additionalErrorArray = NULL) {
>     static $errorArray = array ();
>
>     if ( is_array ($additionalErrorArray) ) {
>       $errorArray += $additionalErrorArray;
>     }
>
>     return $errorArray;
>   }
> }
>
> and for the $GLOBALS kludge:
>
> class ActionHandler {
>   function &getErrorArray () {
>     return ActionHandler::setErrorArray ();
>   }
>
>   function &setErrorArray ($additionalErrorArray = NULL) {
>     if ( !isset ($GLOBALS['errorArray']) ) {
>       $GLOBALS['errorArray'] = array ();
>     }
>
>     if ( is_array ($additionalErrorArray) ) {
>       $GLOBALS['errorArray'] += $additionalErrorArray;
>     }
>
>     return $GLOBALS['errorArray'];
>   }
> }
>
> Both of those functions work 100% for anything I've thrown at them. 


It works on mine as well.  How it works is a mystery to me, how is it 
working?

Phil

>
>
> Dan
>
> Phil Powell wrote:
>
>> I found a rather tragic kluge to get my code working again:
>>
>> class ActionHandler {
>>
>> function &ActionHandler() {
>>  static $errorArray = array();
>> }
>>
>> function &getErrorArray() {
>>  return $GLOBALS[$errorArray];
>> }
>>
>> function &setErrorArray($additionalErrorArray) {
>>  if (is_array($additionalErrorArray)) $this->errorArray =& 
>> array_merge($this->errorArray, $additionalErrorArray);
>>  if (!isset($GLOBALS[$errorArray])) $GLOBALS[$errorArray] = 
>> $this->errorArray;
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>> That produces the results I want every time, and I can't understand 
>> why I must use $GLOBALS[$errorArray] and not $GLOBALS['errorArray'], 
>> am I not mistaken that arrays can only take scalar string and/or 
>> integer values as keys?
>>
>> Phil
>
>
>
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