Showing posts with label php genetrated variables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label php genetrated variables. Show all posts

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Spaced out variables

As Jane Austen might have put it:
'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young variable name in possession of a whitespace must be want of a bug correction report.'
It's a no-brainer. Something no programmer would contemplate doing, even in their most caffeine-crazed moments. So, when I got a complaint about an option which wouldn't work for a particular entry, I did quite a bit of head scratching and tracing before I spotted the problem.

The option in question was a piece of html representing a checkbox. It was generated via php as part of a report. Its value was taken from a database table, and was used to generate a variable.

This one entry was a reference code which just happened to have a space in it...

A case of what you don't know can hurt you!

Oops!