Re: Repetetive code question

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Shake wrote:

> El 15/11/2012 13:26, Dynamo escribió:
>> following php code to get the file contents:
>> [
>> <?php
>> $mymenu=file_get_contents('menu.txt');
>> echo $mymenu;
>> ?>
>> ]
>> Everthing works fine but is this good practice and is there a better
>> way.
> 
> if the content of 'menu.txt' is HTML... the filename should be
> 'menu.html'.

And the variable is superfluous (except perhaps for debugging):

<?php
  echo file_get_contents('menu.txt');
?>

> What you are doing is an include... you can do this way:
> 
> <?
>     include('menu.txt');
> ?>

That is not equivalent to the above, because with `include' (or 
`include_once', `require', or `require_once') the content of menu.txt will 
be parsed (searched for <?php … ?> sections which will then be executed).

[I had stumbled over that difference while writing a code compactor for 
ECMAScript-based scripts and Cascading Style-Sheets.  It turned out that 
some of the stylesheets contained `<?' verbatim intentionally (property 
values were generated by PHP), and one test ECMAScript-based script 
contained it by accident in a regular expression.  Because the compactor 
(PointedEars' Resource Builder) had to be able to process those resources 
even with short_open_tag=1, the regular expression in the ECMAScript-based 
script had to be split up.  See 
<http://PointedEars.de/websvn/filedetails.php?repname=JSX&path=%2Ftrunk%2Fbuilder.php> 
for details.]

PointedEars
-- 
var bugRiddenCrashPronePieceOfJunk = (
    navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 5') != -1
    && navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac') != -1
)  // Plone, register_function.js:16

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Repetetive code question Dynamo - 2012-11-15 12:26 +0000
  Re: Repetetive code question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-11-15 12:31 +0000
  Re: Repetetive code question Shake <QUITAESTO@QUITAESTO.NOES> - 2012-11-15 13:33 +0100
    Re: Repetetive code question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-15 16:21 +0100
      Re: Repetetive code question Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-11-15 11:18 -0500
        Re: Repetetive code question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-15 21:06 +0100
          Re: Repetetive code question Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-11-15 16:20 -0500
            Re: Repetetive code question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-18 04:53 +0100
              Re: Repetetive code question Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-11-18 08:38 -0500
          Re: Repetetive code question Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-11-17 08:54 -0500
  Re: Repetetive code question Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-11-15 07:47 -0500
    Re: Repetetive code question Dynamo - 2012-11-15 13:21 +0000
  Re: Repetetive code question Goran <goran@nospam.com> - 2012-11-15 16:24 +0100
    Re: Repetetive code question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-15 16:36 +0100
      Re: Repetetive code question Goran <goran@nospam.com> - 2012-11-16 09:11 +0100
        Re: Repetetive code question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-11-16 11:24 +0100
  Re: Repetetive code question Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2012-11-15 16:29 +0100

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